Can't afford textbooks and materials

MWM958
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:43:54 +0000

Hey everyone. I’m a junior in college, and I simply can’t afford to buy my textbooks this semester. Even buying them rented and used, I still have to buy a scientific calculator, an online course module thing, and other materials. It all keeps coming out to about 400 to 600 dollars, and I can’t freakin get around it. I don’t get financial aid, and my parents have so many kids that they have absolutely no money to help me with. I have a job, and I work while going to school full time, with an unpaid internship, and im taking an ungodly amount of loans to go to my SAFETY SCHOOL. I had to spend most of my money I made over break to fix my car because it broke down in the snow, so now I’m at an dead end. I really need these books and materials, and these professors are being so uptight, not giving any leeway, and expect me to have everything by next week.

I’m so done with school, and this country. I’ve done everything right: worked hard in high school, had a job, and didn’t party, and got into the school I wanted to go to, but decided it was too expensive and so went to my safety school where I have to take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans just to go, and where I also have a part-time job and rarely go out. Why am I being punished, while my rich friends who don’t have to even have a job and get everything handed to them get praised for their “work”, and get to go out every weekend, and graduate without debt and so get called “industrious” and “responsible”.

I apologize that I’m just ranting, and I’m not really sure if I’m asking for any solutions, or just complaining. I just don’t know where I can pull 400 to 600 dollars from in a week. Has anyone gone through this kind of crap?

I’m just so done with this country and it’s explicit coddling of the very wealthy. Every other freaking western country has cheap or free education. Even Cuba has free education. I’m done…I’m done.