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December 2007 
Financial Woes
Posted on Dec 28th, 2007
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Kitty
Kitty
So busy!
I've been trying to wrestle with the bank into handing over money for my loan so I can start school, and it seems nearly impossible. Orientation is a scant week away and I haven't got any money for tuition. Despite this, I am oddly unaffected. Not worried, not anxious... I cannot help but wonder if it is my own nature (as I have a tendency, when things hit critical mass, to blank out and take on a "Things will work themselves out" attitude that has, admittedly, worked in the past) or whether things really will work out. Hopefully the latter.
In any case, I just find myself feeling a twinge of annoyance everytime I think about it. What in the world have we come to, that I feel obligated to indenture myself to a debt upwards of $48,000 just to say that I have an education? I feel as if I could get near the same education simply going to the library and reading avidly, teaching myself, but it would be nigh worthless in today's society. Sad.
In any case, it will be worth it to join the Peace Corps and do something. I am so looking forward to an opportunity to feel as if I have made a difference, instead of stagnating in a life that I am not ready for.
What's the point of it if you don't use what you know to help others?
I've been trying to wrestle with the bank into handing over money for my loan so I can start school, and it seems nearly impossible. Orientation is a scant week away and I haven't got any money for tuition. Despite this, I am oddly unaffected. Not worried, not anxious... I cannot help but wonder if it is my own nature (as I have a tendency, when things hit critical mass, to blank out and take on a "Things will work themselves out" attitude that has, admittedly, worked in the past) or whether things really will work out. Hopefully the latter.
In any case, I just find myself feeling a twinge of annoyance everytime I think about it. What in the world have we come to, that I feel obligated to indenture myself to a debt upwards of $48,000 just to say that I have an education? I feel as if I could get near the same education simply going to the library and reading avidly, teaching myself, but it would be nigh worthless in today's society. Sad.
In any case, it will be worth it to join the Peace Corps and do something. I am so looking forward to an opportunity to feel as if I have made a difference, instead of stagnating in a life that I am not ready for.
What's the point of it if you don't use what you know to help others?
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