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.::College/Money emergency, PLEASE help..::.
13 years ago
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Alright, here's my sob story of the year.
They're finally going to begin to enforce the policy on campus of traditional dorm spaces not being reserved for upper classmen, that if you're not a freshman, they are pretty much forcing you to pay extra money to live in a shitty campus-owned apartment. On top of it, i had received notice today that due to my mom's salary increase, I will not be receiving the same amount of financial aid that I have the past 2 years, which covered my room and board. All that extra money would now need to come out of my own pocket.
Now, my mom is a single mother working a job, supporting myself, my younger sister, and my brother, who recently acquired a job, but does not make enough to live on his own yet. I, having no car, no licence, and no money FOR a car, cannot commute. I did research as well, public transport is also a no-no, far too expensive for every day. My only other option was to try to hop onto getting an off-campus apartment with my friends 
and 
We went to go look at apartments today, after Aryia had done a lot of research on nearby places with yearly/semester prices, which include utilities, etc. We found one that is perfect, which happened to also be the cheapest price on the list.
Now comes the other bad news.
In order to secure the apartment, as with most places, a deposit needs to be put down. Unfortunately, me being unable to have a job right now to focus on school, and little money being saved, I don't have the money for the deposit on-hand. So I called mom, big mistake. She's busy trying to get Christmas into place, because it's her favorite holiday as well as the only time she gets to see her entire family. So she wouldn't be able to spot me for that either.
Took a look at loans, my student loans went through for the year, so that's a bust.
Pretty much, taking commissions and begging for donations is my only option right now. I would hate myself forever if I made my two best friends lose out on an apartment because I can't afford it. So i'm going to finish up my commission queue and probably try another commission suicide like I did over the summer, because i'm really out of options. I kind of just want to crumble into a pile.
worst case scenario-....i'll have to dig into my funds to go see davana this january. I've been waiting forever for this chance and now...it's going to be taken away from me..
I know i've asked for donations in the past, but this is one time when i really and truly need the help of others. I hate asking for things like this because I want to try and be self-sufficient, but it's just so hard to be growing up in times like these. So please commission me if you can once i'm done with this batch..
..as for donations, they would really be appreciated. I need $600 for the deposit as soon as i can get it. I never forget a kindness, especially not with something as important as this.
and thank you guys for reading. if you can, even advertising me would be helpful. I've seen this fandom do amazing and generous things, and I just seriously hope i can get past this. So thank you all again in advance for reading, i'm gonna go look for winter jobs.
--Arle
HOWEVER, I'm posting this journal on dA and on here. I don't want my Arle bro lady to be in such a predicament D:
*hugs* I hope everything works out.