Keracee

I don't mind living with my mom. It's just that the nursing program will be 2 hours away from me.

My dad could only finish 2 years of college as he had a full ride scholarship for football but after his accident they took it away from him. He wants me to go to college and he offered to co-sign on my loans.

You need to get a different job. You need to work 20 hours per week if going to school full-time. 20000= 5,500 Loans. 5,000 work study. And 9,500 grants

The 11k is the total of loans I will have to take out by the spring of 2017. And honestly I would've to take oUT the same for CC because I got awarded by both schools of 5550 of loans and minimum grants.

It would've been my plan A if I hadn't just found out about it when my older sister joined. But I don't want to drop out of school this new school year. My plan is to just take all of my prerequisites and go from them on what path I choose to take.

My mother refuses to take money from me. She is really against making her kids pay rent. I can get my own car fixed but she likes to take things own her shoulders more than she should. And I'm very grateful for that which is I decided I'm not going to make her co-sign for me and just figure things out on my own.

I wanted to rent out a room from some one's home for $200 a month but my mother is a very skeptical person and doesn't want me living under a roof with "strange people" who can be anybody she said.

I would love to join the military but my family is completely against as it goes against are religion. But I woudnt let that stop me from chasing my dream. And I feel really bad that I do have a really good GPA and never applied for any scholarships at all. My mom wanted me to but I didn't take it serious. But now I am! I'm going to apply to every single one for nursing school like my life depended on it.

And it is really sad to think that one day I really won't be able to pay the loan back. You actually have really opened y eyes truly. Right now I have a 4.0 from 25 credits overall and I'm on the deans list. Hopefully I can keep my academics up to apply for scholarships!

Actually you have a great point. When I was 16 I was broke and at the time I don't even think my mom knew what a CNA was (and I didn't either) so she didn't want to waste her money for it. And I never went to Job Corps because I went straight to college after I graduated high school. Though granted job corps is only 30 min away from me and I could drive there for the CNA program. I'm going to check in with them to see how long the CNA course is.

CNA programs are three months?? I don't know why I thought they were just 5-8 weeks.

Thank you :) I wanted a personal loan of 12k. But hopefully it won't have to amount to that... And I know you are right about waiting and I wish I had the will power to do so. But I know one day that reality check will come crashing down and I will have no one to blame but myself.

Here is my plan of saving 6,000. I save $500 from my refund this semester. And I was awarded Work Study already but my college. Actually I already received my aid in the amount of 20,000. So I'm going to put the 2,500 up each semester from work study. Then put up 2,000 from my spring semester refund. I tried working 20 hours per week but my job is overstaffed and my manager is not lenient with the hours at all. She keeps giving me hours like 10 or 13 or 17 per week. I want to quit but I will not do that because I don't want to burden my mom even further.

I don't think I answered all of your questions properly. My mother is a truck driver and she's self employed so if she doesn't work enough hours then she don't bring home a lot of money. I hardly see my mom and it's been like that for 3 1/2 years now when I may just see her 1 night per week. I remember when I was 16 and underemployed and me and my siblings used to starve and had to wait until my mom came home. But it is better now that I have a job and a car. My plan B is to become an LPN for free at Job Corps and my plan C is to become a CNA.

I tried being a CNA since I was 16. But it will be another thing I would have to pay for. It cost about a 1,000. I could forgo using my school refund on my apartment and pay for the CNA class or I could do it for free at Job Corps. Which I don't think is too bad. So do you recommend that I should become a CNA and just take a year off from school and work as a CNA? The only downfall about that is my mother is sacrificing a lot to put me through college and I believe she may think that I'm not taking college or nursing serious and won't put much effort into helping me get through nursing school with finaces. She told me that she pays off her truck in the summer of 2017 so I was hoping that she could help me out a little more then but I know she's not financially stable to do it now.