Nagasama
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Loans were not a option as I made to much money. I was out on my own by the time i started College so i had no other option but try for it myself and there was no way i could get any grants, loans (Student or otherwise) or just about every other option. I tried TAP and PEL and neither gave me squat.
gotta love this.
i had the same situation. i was barely surviving trying to pay for school and working a lot just to barely squeak by, and had to have a little help from my folks (God bless 'em) now an again. go into get a PEL grant, get turned down. why? because i WORKED. i **** you not, the FA lady straight up told me that if i quit my job and sat around eating cheetos all day, they'd pay for my school. and i was like..."but, if i dont work, how will i buy said cheetos...or ANY food for that matter?" so i told her to stuff it and give the money to the lazy *******s that obviously "deserved" it more than me.
its a jacked up system, geared to make you (us) dependent on the gov't. and it works.
/rant