Tuition and Fees---------------$35,192
Room and Board--------------$8,820
Books and Incidentals--------$1,400
TOTAL-------------------------$45,412
$181,648 for four years at my dream school.
However, minus $34,000 for the following scholarships:
Lomen-Douglas Scholarship $6000
President's Scholarship for Theatre $2500
Apparently, my family makes too much money to be given anymore help with this almost $200,000 education. Even though my father is the only one who works; my mother has a nerve disease which enables her to walk, talk correctly, and do the most simple acts that one must do in day to day life; oh, and they're still supporting my brother who lives by himself in San Antonio.
Although I am anxiously awaiting to go to Whitman College, my college of choice for the past two years, I am not too excited for the massive amount of debt my parents and myself will be in when I graduate.
It's an audacity that a good education is so expensive. Our government is so fucked up and has it's priority in bombing innocents in the Middle East instead of educated it's citizens.
Does it every occur to them that if they help with giving more money for students like me, who want an education, that it would in the long run help the economy? It's hard to get a high paying job if you don't have a bachelors degree. You can pretty much be the manager of McDonald's with a high school diploma, and this really sounds cliche, but I don't want to flip burgers for the rest of my life.
It also pisses me off that my grandparents aren't helping any. My grandfather implanted Whitman on my brain when I was 16, and so I think he should cover some cost of this investment.
Why the hell didn't my parents set up a college fund?
Why were they so stupid?
I don't know what to do.
I'll probably start prostituting myself off.
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