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1195 dollars is all that’s keeping me from going back to school but my dad won’t co-sign a loan and my mom has signed everything she’s willing to sign. So unless my dad changes his mind by this weekend, I’ll have to drop out and switch to online
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Anonymous 6w

That’s infuriating

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Anonymous 6w

The worst problem is that being at home with my mom makes me feel exhausted, being at my dads house forces me to mask constantly. Nobody will teach me how to drive, I’ve never been able to get a job because I’m always helping with my two younger siblings and then my parents told me to focus on college my freshman year, so now it’s summer and I’m feeling more depressed than ever, and feeling trapped, knowing I’ve lost access friends and freedom and that deep down, it’s all my fault.

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Anonymous 6w

That’s not much money. Do you have something you can sell? Anything you can do to earn the money? If nothing else, contact your school and let them know you’re struggling. I know someone who was going to a private college, on a scholarship that paid $25k a year towards the $50k annual tuition. One semester he was $4k short, exhausted all avenues and contacted the school. There may be funds or benefactors who help in just these situations. Anonymous donation, Dude graduated with honors.

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Anonymous 6w

I messaged my band director to tell him I’d have to drop the course because I wouldn’t make band camp and he was very against that, offered private lessons and is trying to get another scholarship to cover the gap

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6w

If I don’t go back this fall, I lose a 20,000 dollar scholarship, which means if I don’t go back now, I don’t go back ever. I barely survive summer at home, I look forward to going back to school every year because I just enter a spiraling void during summer without a schedule or downtime. So I know if I go online for the rest of college, I’ll have to move out to stay alive. And my mom will be pissed because I’ve always been the one who was supposed to never leave her.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6w

My husband is starting online classes this year and they’ve already told me that I’m welcome to move in, so that’s probably what will happen, even if this is finally the thing that snaps the thread with my mom. We’d be living off his minimum wage in a tiny house (literal tiny house, like the kind with one room and a loft) with five dogs but I’ll be applying for a job as a substitute teacher at the schools in town, we grew up there so they’ll be likely to hire me.

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Anonymous replying to -> d1ld0shwagg1ns 6w

The most expensive thing I own is my laptop and it wasn’t worth much new, much less used and handed down, I don’t really own much else, some clothes, bedding, a mini fridge I got as a gift is one of my big possessions

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Anonymous replying to -> d1ld0shwagg1ns 6w

I did take your advice and talked to my advisor this morning, she said that she was going to look at something and message me back, so fingers crossed? 🤞

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6w

Awesome. Hopefully you’ll get it all worked out.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Any update?

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Anonymous replying to -> d1ld0shwagg1ns 4w

I’m sitting in dorm room floor with one of my friends and my dog right now!! I’ve got to get an on campus job and just work for free until it’s paid

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Good for you! I’m so happy for you!

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