This is my first semester at college and Im looking forward to being a great student. I stepped up my game even wtih everything going murphy’s law on my ass and went to college to better my life. To be frank, my family is broke and we only have one car because it’s registered. Well, we do have another car but it’s not registered and it’s a ‘gas guzzler’.
My mother and two brothers are also going to college with me so we have to be flexable and careful with are money. My mother is a medical transcriptionist but with her job outsourcing it’s hard to keep that job with low pay and feed four people. My mother is now on unemployment and things are tough.
Now before some of you say why don’t we all get jobs, let me remind you that we have one car and a full schedual of school but with luck our ‘gas guzzler’ will be up and running legally withing this week or next. There are many things to pay for in life; rent,utilities, internet, food, neccesities, and gas/car repairs. Now with all that and barley enough money to scrape by, we have to buy over priced books for school.
I get that we have to buy our way through college but the books are just way to much money for three to four months of one class. Im taking nine units which isn’t a lot but I aslo registered late, so I have three books to buy. Two anyway since one is already borrowed. Like I said im broke so it’s hard to find the money to buy these expensive books.
I just bombed my human sexualities test because I couldn’t study in depth. I did study from the study guide and my notes so I can’t say that I didn’t try but I can’t study that well without the book. Not to mention the homework due tomorrow that I won’t be turning in because I need the book. I have google my tiny fingers off searching for a few chapters of the book with no luck and now im screwed.
If the books weren’t so over priced I would have had a fighting chance at aceing that exam. I just believe that if the prices were to come down I would be able to take more classes and use hard to come by money for books, gas, and occasionally and Almond Joy. I am still waiting for financial aid which I desperatly need. I would rather not have my mother write a hot check but sometimes you gotta what you gotta do.
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