<p>Your main problem is not college. College is not the answer to problems one has with ones problems because the very institution depends on PARENTS to pay for the experience. If you don’t have parents that are willing, able, reliable to do all of this FOR WHATEVER REASON, your first priority is to get yourself independent of them. And you dont do that by going to college since the parents are the first line of payment for that. You make a life for yourself until age 24 and then you don’t have to deal with their financials for college. </p>
<p>The reason so many people get the idea that college is the big way out from parents is because of the big MYTHS that there is all this money out there to pay for college which is one big fat lie. If you are an upper echelon student with some skills and attributes that can win a full ride from a college, good for you, but that is rare. Very rare. The other reason is that PARENTS usually use college as a buffer zone fof their kids entry into the adult world. They subsidize this weaning. IF your parents or any parents don’t want to do this or can’t, that’s the end of that. This is a PARENT’s option not a right a young adult has. </p>
<p>The facts are that most college students are in their mid or late 20s or older, and are working, going to school part time and paying for their own college. It is the select, privileged few that get the whole college experience paid for and given to them by parents. If you are not in that latter category, you had better start learning how to be in the first.</p>