It's been awhile since I've had anything remotely worthy of making a blog about (barring my Animal Crossing one that was more a plea for visitors), and it looks like an update on my worries seems good enough.
I start college next month, and I sign up for classes this Saturday. I made the mistake of choosing a private university though, and my funding is totally screwed. I have about $42k to cover, and my financial aid only covers $39k. I don't have a job and don't foresee myself getting one any time soon, as well, I need to be under $1k or $2k that still has to be paid by the new year to even sign up for classes next term (which means I may be wasting my time already). To make matters worse, I was depending on extra financial aid to get a laptop. Well, I'm tapped out on government and school aid.
Now I'm entering college with a debt I can't pay, no money for books, no laptop, no money for food, or anything. I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to succeed. I'm not looking forward to college in the least at this point. I'm not going to lay my financial burden on anybody else, and private loans are a no go. As it stands, I'm probably going to waste a few months of my life going to this college for a term, just to have to pick somewhere else where my financial aid doesn't fall through.
Fucking US education. Hate this. Find a school I like that carries the major I want (that I don't know of any other schools in the state even having), and I can't even come close to being able to afford all of the expenses.
I don't get why higher education, which is basically required, costs so much that some students may not even be able to go to school. What a broken system.
And here I am, a 4.0 student in high school that graduated as valedictorian. Lot of good that did me.
I start college next month, and I sign up for classes this Saturday. I made the mistake of choosing a private university though, and my funding is totally screwed. I have about $42k to cover, and my financial aid only covers $39k. I don't have a job and don't foresee myself getting one any time soon, as well, I need to be under $1k or $2k that still has to be paid by the new year to even sign up for classes next term (which means I may be wasting my time already). To make matters worse, I was depending on extra financial aid to get a laptop. Well, I'm tapped out on government and school aid.
Now I'm entering college with a debt I can't pay, no money for books, no laptop, no money for food, or anything. I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to succeed. I'm not looking forward to college in the least at this point. I'm not going to lay my financial burden on anybody else, and private loans are a no go. As it stands, I'm probably going to waste a few months of my life going to this college for a term, just to have to pick somewhere else where my financial aid doesn't fall through.
Fucking US education. Hate this. Find a school I like that carries the major I want (that I don't know of any other schools in the state even having), and I can't even come close to being able to afford all of the expenses.
I don't get why higher education, which is basically required, costs so much that some students may not even be able to go to school. What a broken system.
And here I am, a 4.0 student in high school that graduated as valedictorian. Lot of good that did me.
