Financial Aid - TERRIBLE idea?

zenzen
Fri, 01 May 2009 02:39:19 +0000

I haven’t filled out FAFSA yet but I know I can get it because I applied for it once before but my mother had such a heart attack about me doing it that I decided not to do it (last year) and decided not to do the program because she didn’t want me to use FAFSA. But I know that I can get it, I was approved for the full costs for the year.

I live at my aunts currently who isn’t requiring me to pay anything or rent so long as I help her keep up the house (I’m super handy for a girl) and do the yard work and stuff like that.
I can definitely work on the weekends but during the summer I will go to school full-time as well (I LOVE summer semester, nothing like short courses!). I could take the fall off of school and extend the program out to 3 years because the fall semester is my most disliked time of the year… but I’d like to just work weekends while finishing school.

Oh and I am simply one of those people who truly feel like I owe it to my parents to make them happy at every single turn and that if I do something that breaks their heart than that must mean I am a very horrible daughter. I feel like I’m breaking their hearts by doing something that they believe in their weird way of thinking is a terrible thing to do.