Confessions of A Working Girl

Still depressed over finances, but since that won't change anytime soon, I moved on to other things. For one thing:

As the end of my last semester in college approaches, I should probably feel a mix of things. Instead, all I feel is that I wish the semester would be over faster. There's also a little regret, that I haven't tried my hardest in everything. A little of that is because that's how I've always worked in school. But a large part of it, this semester, is because of one class, and the group project for that class.

My group has met for a total of 72 hours or so. That doesn't count the hours w...

So...after a lot of running around and a lot of heartbreak (I wanted that Bachelor's in Criminal Justice!) I have figured out a way to graduate in December. I changed the Criminal Justice Degree to an Associates, and the Spanish Teacher helped me put all the rest of the classes I needed for the Spanish for Business Degree into my schedule for this semster. So I will now graduate in December. Not with the two Bachelor's I wanted, but with a Bachelor's and an Associates.  I told the...

Picture of the day: Confusion and worry

I feel like I'm in limbo, a little. It's already been decided (mostly) that I'll go up to school on Sunday...what happens from there though...

At the moment, it looks like I'm hoping to be able to move to being part time and not lose any financial aid. By doing that, I should still get a Spanish for Business Bachelor's at the end of the semester. I think....

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The way things are going, I'm not going back to college this year. I have been turned down for five seperate student loans (for five different amounts, from five different companies) and even after financial aid, I would owe $7000 for the semester. So I probably can't go back. And that means I just wasted four years of my life getting credits towards a degree I'm not going to earn, only getting debt in return. That's not right. Why is education so expensive? And, understanding that more and m...

I know I’m not alone in this…why does schooling have to be so freaking expensive? I know, I know…this is something that I should have realized long ago, especially with the fact that I will be a Junior in college this coming year… But it only just hit me.

I mean, what better way to make me realize just how much money this was when I heard my parents talking (technically, I think they were talking to me) about that if anything happened to me while I was abroad t...

I’m sort of nervous a the moment…I have less than two weeks to get the last bit of paperwork in to the program…and it’s only like a month before I actually leave!!! Wow…

Today in the mail, I got the handbook for the study abroad in Spain! It was on a 2gb usb…the program even suggests that the usb can be used to store pictures from during the study abroad program.

Anyway, I got that, and I was looking at the calendar, and suddenly I was struck by nervousness. In just a little over a month and a half, I will be the furthest away from home that I’ve ever been for the longest amount of time. And there’s so much stuff that I need to do...