Hi

So here's the deal. I'm going back to college after a year and a half of being a dropout because being a student put me into a huge amount of debt. To avoid this occurring again, I am attempting to get financial aid. Unfortunately, in the FAFSA, there isn't an option called "estranged from parents" that gets you off the dependent list. So I had to convince my stingy, high and mighty mother to send my father with their taxes so that I could fill out the FAFSA and see what measly reward all this work would accomplish. I still don't know if I even got anything out of it but now she's REALLY not speaking to me. I can't get a loan to pay for school either, because I am again, too young to qualify for the easier road, I've been turned down by three lenders because my credit score is too low. Just get a co-signer you say? HAH! My boyfriends credit is awful, and aside from my parents (who wouldn't co-sign a loan with me to save their lives) I haven't got anyone else. Anyway, I can afford to go to a Community College as long as I don't spend my money on anything else. In the meantime I'm applying for any scholarship I might, in any universe, qualify for. In high school, they told me I wouldn't ever have trouble getting scholarships. That would be true if I was married, over 25, and had a child or two. However, I'm not married, I'm 21 and I have no plans to procreate any time soon. So they say to play up that I'm adopted and had a troubled childhood. That only works if you aren't adopted and still have a troubled childhood or you are adopted and those parent's don't make any money. The latter hardly ever occurs because most adoption agencies won't adopt a child out to a family with a low income.
Needless to say, ENOUGH WITH THE DRAMA! So for now, I'll stop bugging you all. Thanks for reading me vent :)