Post by Stal on Mar 29, 2004 11:01:11 GMT -5
Man.
Seniors in high school/18 year olds should not have to deal with this type of stress.
Whose bright idea was it to make college selection, applications, tuition, scholarships, and all this other stuff so stressful to the point of just shutting down completely and not being able to think about it?
That's pretty much what has happened to me.
See, that great and wonderful University of Cincinnati scholarship I had coming? Well I heard back from them Wednesday. They're giving me the great amount of $5,000/year. Now I know it's much better than nothing. But it lowers my chances of going to UC now. Not something I'm happy about. Especially since I got 5k/year just for going to the competition. >.>
So now I'm having to put together personal expenses and all this other stuff to try and see how much I'll need in the way of student loans and so forth.
Seems to me that I'll need approximately $24,660/year for UC. Which comes to $98,640 all-in-all. Thankfully UC requires Co-ops for their computer science program and I only pay per quarter that I actually go to school (which is why it's actually a 5 year program...because of the co-oping) and I should be able to pay off a lot of the debt through co-oping and after job placement (they have something like a 95% graduation job placement rate and most that graduate are close to debt-free)
But I still have to accept the fact UC may not be feasible for me.
Anyway.
Plus mixed with all the crap going on in my life right now (those situations I'm under obligation to not talk about).
I'll admit it, the past week I was depressed. Severely. Thankfully I've had some great IRL friends to help me out and so forth, yeah. Lindsay helped me through a lot of it, just by being able to talk with her. And Yui made sure I got a message that told me to call her soon because she was getting worried about me. I sent her an e-mail and explained what was going on as best as I could, and she sent back like one of the best e-mails and such.
Thankfully I'm feeling better now. Though still a bit down by what's going on in my life, I'll make it through alive. And hopefully with enough money to go to UC.
I would like to thank all of you on the NTWF, too, for being there for me in the past when I've needed you. It's meant a lot to me.
Seniors in high school/18 year olds should not have to deal with this type of stress.
Whose bright idea was it to make college selection, applications, tuition, scholarships, and all this other stuff so stressful to the point of just shutting down completely and not being able to think about it?
That's pretty much what has happened to me.
See, that great and wonderful University of Cincinnati scholarship I had coming? Well I heard back from them Wednesday. They're giving me the great amount of $5,000/year. Now I know it's much better than nothing. But it lowers my chances of going to UC now. Not something I'm happy about. Especially since I got 5k/year just for going to the competition. >.>
So now I'm having to put together personal expenses and all this other stuff to try and see how much I'll need in the way of student loans and so forth.
Seems to me that I'll need approximately $24,660/year for UC. Which comes to $98,640 all-in-all. Thankfully UC requires Co-ops for their computer science program and I only pay per quarter that I actually go to school (which is why it's actually a 5 year program...because of the co-oping) and I should be able to pay off a lot of the debt through co-oping and after job placement (they have something like a 95% graduation job placement rate and most that graduate are close to debt-free)
But I still have to accept the fact UC may not be feasible for me.
Anyway.
Plus mixed with all the crap going on in my life right now (those situations I'm under obligation to not talk about).
I'll admit it, the past week I was depressed. Severely. Thankfully I've had some great IRL friends to help me out and so forth, yeah. Lindsay helped me through a lot of it, just by being able to talk with her. And Yui made sure I got a message that told me to call her soon because she was getting worried about me. I sent her an e-mail and explained what was going on as best as I could, and she sent back like one of the best e-mails and such.
Thankfully I'm feeling better now. Though still a bit down by what's going on in my life, I'll make it through alive. And hopefully with enough money to go to UC.
I would like to thank all of you on the NTWF, too, for being there for me in the past when I've needed you. It's meant a lot to me.
