WTF is the point????
Not about the gym, i’m fat - I know the point to working out and eating better; obviously it’s so that I have an ass you can bouce quarters off of. (Although if somebody wanted to do that I might question the things that turn them on..but I digress). I’m talking about trying to improve yourself in other ways. I want to go to school but damned if "the man" isn’t doing everything in it’s power to stop me from doing it. Nope, can’t get a loan because it’s not full time and you’re doing it online. Well here’s a freaking newsflash - the reason I’m going to school is so that I can get a better job and not have to keep the current crap job i’m at - that in a total catch 22 I can’t leave to go to school full time because I wouldn’t be able to pay my damned bills.
If it’s not one thing it’s another. FAWK.
If I had another blog I would bitch there, but I don’t. Thankfully no one reads my boring whiny crap on here either. But at least i got it out. Ahhhh now didn’t that feel good? No, not really but whatever.
January 28, 2009 at 1:32 pm
damned if you do and damned if you don’t. How about night school?
January 28, 2009 at 1:39 pm
What kind of program? I have certificate students who have recived loans and many courses I manage are via distance ed. PM me. I am running into some of the same stuff here on campus with a masters degree. No one on campus seems able to advise on my topic area (CDN military history). Although the actual topic is a bit narrower than that.
beekpr1
January 28, 2009 at 1:41 pm
If there was another way for me to do the course I would do it. Okay well there is another way and that’s to go and live in another city away from my family for two years…uhhh no thanks!
It’s just frustrating that I can’t get help with loans to pay for it unless I am physically in a classroom. I can’t not work. I have to pay the old mortgage. Grrrr. I’m just venting.
I’ll figure something out, because I have to. Oh Lord the Bank of Mom and Dad may have to come into play as much as I am loathe to do it at my age!!!! LOL
January 28, 2009 at 1:42 pm
haha! my gosh it’s like reading my own blogs….but from a female…which would be weird if i really thought about it….but i’m not going to
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I TOTALLY know what you mean! I’m the "lowest" full-time student I can be. Why? Cuz of what you just said, it’s a loan and it’s online, but full-time at DeVry is only 2 classes at a time for my degree so it’s "manageable" (which I won’t define). You didn’t outline your living situation but I’m a husband, more-than-40hrs/week employee, and "full time" student, and still have time for video games and chillin’. Maybe look into what other schools call "full time" (like DeVry’s 2 classes minimum). Or make the commitment to go to school, which means you have to sacrifice some ‘fun’ stuff. When I first started, I know I had to do that, it’s better now, but still not near perfect, but it never will be. Anything worth having is worth sacrificing and fighting for.
I know what it’s like being at a job you don’t love and knowing that you can be at a job u might love if you could get the degree, so I really hope you can somehow get there like I did. Oh, and even when you’re approved it’s not all fairies and rainbows either (hehe), I have had to constantly stay on top of my school to ask for the money because I’m approved from my loan company, but they messed up and didn’t ASK for the money. BAH, but it’s all working out, just a heads up. Good luck!!!
January 28, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I feel your pain! I went through the same thing a few years ago when I wanted to advance my degree. It was a nightmare because no one wanted to give me a loan because I wasn’t considered full time and I had three small children so I couldn’t go to a brick and mortar school. It was very, very frustrating. I ended up saving up as much as I could and taking courses as I could afford them. It wasn’t the ideal situation, and it took forever to complete, but the plus side is that I don’t have student loans and I eventually finished! Of course that method is not for everyone (and it was a last resort for me), but it might be worth considering.