$2.99...
Box of cereal...$5.99...
Tuiton for a semester of school...
Required books for the semester...
$900...
Surviving college...
Priceless.
In college there are some things money cannot buy,
For everything else, there are student loans...hopefully.
Hopefully? Why hopefully? Because I am hoping to get a college loan so I can survive. See "Surviving college" has two meanings:
- Surviving the semester with all of the studying, tests, and homework
- Surviving, literally. On a college budget, it feels that we may waste away because lack of food and sleep.
I am struggling to do both! You may be asking why the Roon Child isn't getting enough to eat. The answer is simple, and congruent with the introductory piece. No college loan. Yes, I was approved for my loan over three months ago, which seemed at the time to be the hard part. It was most definitely not however. Getting the money is the hard part. The approval happened in less than a week. After that it has been nothing but a litany of phone calls (on my part) and a litany of excuses (on their part) I am down to $3.87 and I live in NYC. You do the math.
If you look at the date when this was posted, you might notice that it is Saturday night. You might now be wondering why I am updating my blog on a Saturday night. I will repeat. I have $3.87 to last me until...I get my loan...which could be in a week, or maybe the day BYU has a decent football team. (in other words, it may never happen) So, to say it explicitly, I am home because all my friends are out doing things that cost more than $3.87. I decided to stay home, find crumbs that I may have carelessly dropped at a previous time, and update my blog. To describe the feeling of this night I thought I would quote Melissa..."Wha-hoo!"
2 comments:
It's your lucky day, Cameron! Pigs do fly, Hell can freeze over, and BYU will have a winning football season. In other words, you won't have to wait long. Serious bro, let Nat and I know if you need some moola to last you a week or so. I want you fed and looking good so you can be attractive to the female species and date! I can't wait forever for you to get married and have kids. My kids need cousins! You see now why I want you to have money to eat and date. So give us a ring.
Some people have been calling my parents and offering to send me money as a result of my blog... I wanted to clarify that I am over-dramatic. I would also ask everyone to consider the idiom, "take it with a grain of salt" when reading all my blogs. One could translate "crumbs on the floor" to "generic brand cornflakes"
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