Last year was not a good year for me especially for my health. Neck and shoulder pain, diagnosed as borderline diabetic, Vitamin D deficiency and girl problems that ended up getting surgical procedure for. This is a new year. My neck and shoulder as easy off. I thought the neck and shoulder pain would never go away. I take a pill for my borderline diabetes. I find the soda tit difficult get off of. I started drinking baby bottles because low calorie and diet sodas are gross. I try to only drink one a day but sometimes I do two. I was drinking two to three cans a day of the regular size cans. I gave up candy completely. Switched from white to honey wheat bread. If I want a cookie I eat a mini and I stay away from Oreos. Every finals week I was eating a package of Oreos. Every time I see reese sticks at the grocery store my stomach growls. I miss M&Ms. I also started taking 10,000 UI of vitamin D everyday.
Just when I thought I had advert a health crisis and things were on the mend, I'm facing another disaster. On my birthday of all days I had a meeting with financial aid. I thought it was because of my incompletes. I was informed that I reached the amount of aid that I can get as an undergraduate. Needless to say I wanted to have a meltdown. If I drink I would of totally gotten trashed that day. Instead had my cry in the bathroom and then went to my internship. The financial aid adviser gave me little options on how to go forward other than getting a loan from a bank.I've applied for two loans and both want co signers. Neither of my parents seem enthused to sign. I don't come from a rich family. I come the exact opposite. Scholarships are another option but I need to finish my incompletes to get my grade point back up to qualify for them and that won't be until this summer.
I am inundated with this semesters work. The other thing about scholarships is that there are tons of people applying for them and they won't cover all of my tuition and books. I even called the department of education to confirm the cap and they said yes it is capped. They didn't give me much options either. Other than selling my belongs Even if I sell some of my belongings if I was lucky I would come up with
one semesters worth of tuition. I don't own a vehicle or anything worth
a huge amount of money.I am going to call an agency on Tuesday to see if they can help. Other than that I have run out of options
I am about 10-11 classes away from graduation. Tuition at UWM for 12 credits is almost $5000 and that does not include textbooks, ink and paper. There are talks of tuition hikes in the future because of my Dumb ass Governor and him wanting to cut $300 million out of the UW System. I was planning on graduating in Spring of 2016, now I am not sure. I want to get into graduate school. I can't even think about that right now. I have this thunderstorm looming over my head. I'm trying not to let it paralyze me but it is really difficult not to let it. I've stressed ate this week which I know isn't going to do me any good. I've gone through two bags of Ruffles this week. It's a good thing there are no Oreos in the house or they would be gone too. I have so many other things to stress over about like my capstone paper.
Quitting would be a tragedy.It would cause more issues for me, with no better prospects of finding decent paying employment than I had before I came back to school. Not to mention a huge amount of student loan debt on top of it with nothing to show for it.
One of the few options that I have come up with is a Go Fund Me site.
http://www.gofundme.com/rxzhvk
