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sigh...school is a bitch.-edit,figuredout now-
15 years ago
I had second thoughts at the start
I said to myself "Hold on to your heart"
Now I know the man that you are,
You're wonderful so far, and it's more than I hoped for
So I'm trying to get into college...but I keep running into problems...
1) The original community college I wanted to go to is like a 40 minute drive there and back. I don't have a car, license, permit, or anything.
- Mom goes to work at 4-5 something in the morning, classes wouldn't start until afternoon. She can't pick me up and drop me off there at school, she loses too much time from work doing that.
2) Even if i DID go to that school, my schedule is spread out and complicated. I'm afraid I might get too stressed out and might not do well.
So we turned around and looked at a nearby tech school that a friend of ours suggested.
Here's the problem with that...
1) I don't know much about tech schools and I think this is a "too good to be true" offer.
2) Tuition is like $14k. ._.; I can't afford to take student loans because I have no job, and a low chance of getting a job even after college. Financial aid will only cover so much... I think the pell grant is giving me like $6k for a year or something.
-- That's enough for the community college, with money leftover. Tuition for that school is only $1k.
Problems overall?
1) Classes start for the community college August 30th.
2) I just dropped my classes for said community college because I thought we decided on this trade school, but
3) Now we're having second thoughts and doubts about the trade school, because of the loans. and because I don't know if that's really the education I need.
Possible solution?
1) Drop both community college and tech school until the spring semester, and sign up for spring classes at the community college. If I sign up early enough, I could get classes at the nearby campus instead of last minute classes at the far away one.
Problem?
I don't know what's going to happen to the pell grant money that is *supposedly* in the mail for me right now. Would I just keep it until spring? (That's actually January 18th) Would I have to find some way to return it? I don't want to spend it on anything, but I don't want to get in trouble for having it and not actually going to college right away.
I realllllllly need some help here, guys. Please please give me your input. DX
Important, side information: I'm going into the medical field, but no specific course just yet. ._.;
I'm 19, living dependent under my mom only.
Mom makes like $16k a year or somethin small like that.
I want to go back to school.
My high school grades aren't good enough for a University. I barely passed with a 2.0 something GPA.
With thanks to a couple friends sorting out my horrible train of thought, I've figured out that I can go half time and still be covered in full. So now I'm going to be going half time at the local campus that's nearby, monday thru friday but only two classes and one lab. My mom can drop me off in the morning and pick me up in the afternoon, no problem. We're heading to the campus tonight to get it all sorted out for good.
Thanks Phaded for your help, and major thanks to Shuii and h3g3l for dealing with me at 7 a.m. X3 <3
I don't care what consequence it brings,
I have been a fool for lesser things.
I want you so bad,
I think you ought to know that I intend to hold you for the longest time
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I love you so much♥
Now for the car rant, do not buy anything expensive! You will be putting a shit load of miles on your car every day and you will need good gas mpg as well! I would suggest getting a cheap ass new car that is bare bones, reasoning you will spend more in maintenance as your car nears 200k then a car note. Personal story now, I lived with my parents a good part of my college life, till they found out something about me but that is a different story, I had at first my truck that had a large number of miles on it I was driving 36 miles each way and dealing with all the car maintenance and costs sucked. Towards the end of college, I had two old cars to swap back and forth between when they were in the shop. Old cars can be more expensive, plus you are a girl and I doubt you will do a majority of the maintenance yourself, I was trying to do as much as I could myself. Yes, this taught me how to work on cars, but hell when you are in college trying to work and have somewhat of a life; it blows.
So, first see if they do online classes, second get a job, third get a car. Yes, it blows to have to work your ass off in college and have a job, but guess what the real world sucks ass =\ High school was fun and carefree and you were a minor with out all the responsibilities, now you are an adult and you have responsibilities. Sorry for the old guy rant on this, but trust me you have options and you need to look at them all closely. College is a hell of a lot of money if you do not have a full ride scholarship. It is a good investment, but you have to bust ass because having a low gpa won't do you much good when you go to talk to high paying potential employers (most major corporations want a 3.25 from what I remember).
Do not get discouraged, it can be done, and college can turn out to be the best freaking experience in your life. I learned so much from some of my profs that I never would of even thought of, me being open mindedness and going hell what ever actually did not come easy, it actually happened because of a damn bad ass and awesome anthropology prof that I spent alot of time hanging with. I learnt alot in college and it is more then the classes. Books cant teach you everything.
I really wish you luck and yah you need to get your ass moving on this dear! <Hugs>
PS, the grammar is prolly fubar'd as it is 5 am and I have to be in at 7am today -.- I want sleep!!!!