I need money for school

[Kev]

1) quit your $9/hour job
2) enjoy your youth
3) pay for school with loans
4) ......
5) graduate
6) profit!
7) pay off loans with new higher paying job

 

[Nightfall]

If you only have 2 months, I would apply right now for that student loan.

 

[Nightfall]

Originally posted by: Kev
1) quit your $9/hour job
2) enjoy your youth
3) pay for school with loans
4) ......
5) graduate
6) profit!
7) pay off loans with new higher paying job

As long as he doesn't get a degree in Political Science, he should be golden.

QFT

 

[Zolty]

Your parents do not make so much that you cannot get a private loan. Banks love lending money to kids with rich parents.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Takefuji it baby

 

[Scarpozzi]

My school has a fee extension option that allows you to pay 50% up front and for $50 get an extension to half-way through the semester. It's helped out a lot of my friends in the past that were paying their own way. Ask your bursar's office if they have options like that. If they tell you no, then try getting a night job somewhere like stocking Walmart, working at Wafflehouse, or something.

Good luck man. Summer school is a great way to get credits without spending too much time. I think it's great that you're working your way through....it will make you appreciate your job and life a lot more when you get out. Those who had their educations paid for will never understand. :thumbsup:

 

[manlymatt83]

prosper.com

prosperpal.com

 

[MasonLuke]

Let me pimp you. You can make anywhere from 1000 - 10,000 week.

 

[tfinch2]

Get a real job, not some on-campus BS.

 

[Munkaz]

Yeah, I'd suggest to try and find something elsewhere and leave your current job.

Even if it's for the same length of time/week you'll probably do better than $9/hr. I wouldn't advise spending more time at work, aso ther posters have said, if you're trying to play catch up you should definitely put school as your priority.

Personally, I'm against student loans - I'm in a program that's a HUGE pain in the ass, and I want my efforts to pay off the very week I start working after leaving school - but that's just me!

My other suggestion is that if you can't make it, talk to your parents, make a deal with them, try and meet them half way (or further if you can).

Oh, and don't be so hard on yourself - as long as you tried your best in school when you didn't manage those courses you really shouldn't hang your head and feel the need to 'punish' yourself.

 

[S Freud]

I would really like to know about these jobs that people here talk about. Always suggesting that you move up from your minimum wage job. I don't know about other people, but where I live thats all that is pretty much offered to a college kid with no formal training or degree. I currently work in a grocery store making a little more than minimum wage. Sure I would love to get a better paying job, but its not like I can just sign for one. Not to mention the 50 other people I have to compete with when or if one does come available.

So any input advice is much appreciated.

 

[imported_cheapdude]

Its never too late to start gambling.

 

[jupiter57]

Well, I didn't want to be the first to make a snide remark to your serious thread, but others have already started, so here we go:

Where the H**L are all of you Stock Trader Geniuses?
Surely with the collective wisdom you all seem to hold, you could make f4phantom2500 rich in no time, much as all of you apparently are!
I mean, come on! Just tell the guy how to turn his $1100 int $4-$5K in two months, we know all of you have done it!
Maybe you should PM PAB, he makes more money than Bill Gates. He even loves his broker.

On a serious note, you are probably better off borrowing it, from the source of your choice, then enhancing your income after graduation in order to pay it back.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Well, there are a few things I should point out here.

First off, $9/hour is pretty high pay around here for a low skill job, minimum wage is $5.15/hour.

Second, I already am doing a half/half thing with my parents but I don't want to put them through having to pay for a semester that they didn't plan on me having to take, especially since the whole reason I'm taking it is because I've slacked off over the last couple of semesters.

Third...any more suggestions? At this point I'm planning on just taking the summer courses and getting a loan to cover it.

Fourth, another plan occurred to me earlier. I currently am planning on taking 11 hours of classes, and had planned on taking them all here. I was thinking that I could take them at a local community college for a lot cheaper and just have the credits transferred over (there's a deal set up between the two schools so that we can do that), and just get a loan to pay for it, which would be totally okay since it will be much much cheaper anyway.

http://www.ccccd.edu/aro/tuition.htm

That's the chart at the community college, I'm in either the first or second column, dunno if I'm technically in Collin County, but either way it's cheap.

Does anyone else think that this is the best option so far?