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You guys'll love me...
Paid 12,000 dollars for my first year out of my own pocket.
Parents paid remaining 4 undergraduate years.
Didn't pay a cent for graduate school - 1st year of grad school I was a graduate assistant, 2nd year I was a teaching assistant.
Don't owe anything...
Two weeks before finishing my masters I dropped out of college due to some really ugly office politics (very good friend of mine, tenured professor, was bascially fired because he was unpopular with several other professors...)and the realization that I hated what I was doing, and always had.
Haven't looked back. Much happier now than I ever was in college.
Struggled with depression for a while, not knowing exactly what I was going to do. Drank a lot, spent a lot of time on my computer hiding from everyone, including my fiance (almost lost her for good...). This actually lasted almost two years, until about last October or November.
Thankfully I had about 20K bucks saved away so I was able to help her pay the bills, since I've been unemployed since 1999, except for some odd work here and there. Now, after much soul-searching and conversing with my better half, I've set my sights on writing a novel, something I've always felt I should do. Have set myself a limit of 6 months to do it, and if I am unable to do it in that amount of time, the dream dies and I find some more traditional employment, probably something that doesn't pay much over minimum wage since my emplyment history for two years is nil, and prior to that it consists only of a few years working full-time in motels as either a clerk or a maintenance man. I have her blessing, however, and I believe I will succeed, which isn't something I've ever believed before now (long, long story).
Supposed I've exceeded the bounds of the question, but hell, we're all friends here in a bulletin-boardish sort of way, and I don't have anything to hide.
The moral of the story, I suppose, is that 7 years of college have absolutely no bearing on my future. For those of you who haven't gotten to college yet, if anyone is willing to listen, don't go because it's what is expected of you, or what you should do, go because you want to go, and study something you love. Will work out much better for you in the end. Trust me, I know... [img]http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/s/3dlil/wink.gif[/img]
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