Ilvane
08-10-2004, 04:03 PM
Back in my day, we ate Ramen noodles, and we loved it!!
The thread on food stamps made me think of the time in my life when I was eating ramen noodles, working three jobs and putting myself through school with no federal assistance.
You see, I was an A and B student. I got accepted to a few schools, and chose to go to a community college because my parents couldn't afford to send me, so I had to pay on my own. My father, you see was disabled, and my mother was the only income. My parents owned a house, and they worked very hard to keep it, and pay all the bills for me and my sister, and for the home. When the time came to apply for aid for school, we got turned down, because somehow or another, my parents made too much money. They would have needed to sell the house to get the aid. So I went to school, and paid for it on my own.
My first semester in college I had a 3.92, and graduated two years later with a 3.84. At the time I was working three different jobs, at night and on weekends,(starting at 8pm), and I was going to school starting at 8am in the morning. I did rehearsals, school, and work. To be honest, I don't think I remember sleeping much, but "them were the breaks".
Luckily for me, I got an talent and merit scholarship to school not long after that, for my last two years. I was lucky enough that all I had to pay for were my books and fees.
I guess I was lucky in some ways, because so many people don't have that opportunity. Sure, I probably could have not gone to school and said forget it, after my parents dedided they couldn't afford to send me but I didn't.
One thing that really irks me is this: I knew a girl I went to high school with, who had rich parents. She went on after school, and at 19 had a child. She moved into her parents apartment, which they gave her rent free, and applied for welfare, and she got 4 years of school paid for by the state. What did she do to deserve that? She was a single mother, who had everything she needed. Did she really need the state to pay for her schooling?
/rant
:D
Anyway, like I said, the thread got me thinking..what do you all think about people getting free schooling on welfare, do you think it appropriate?
-A
[Edited on 8-10-2004 by Ilvane]
The thread on food stamps made me think of the time in my life when I was eating ramen noodles, working three jobs and putting myself through school with no federal assistance.
You see, I was an A and B student. I got accepted to a few schools, and chose to go to a community college because my parents couldn't afford to send me, so I had to pay on my own. My father, you see was disabled, and my mother was the only income. My parents owned a house, and they worked very hard to keep it, and pay all the bills for me and my sister, and for the home. When the time came to apply for aid for school, we got turned down, because somehow or another, my parents made too much money. They would have needed to sell the house to get the aid. So I went to school, and paid for it on my own.
My first semester in college I had a 3.92, and graduated two years later with a 3.84. At the time I was working three different jobs, at night and on weekends,(starting at 8pm), and I was going to school starting at 8am in the morning. I did rehearsals, school, and work. To be honest, I don't think I remember sleeping much, but "them were the breaks".
Luckily for me, I got an talent and merit scholarship to school not long after that, for my last two years. I was lucky enough that all I had to pay for were my books and fees.
I guess I was lucky in some ways, because so many people don't have that opportunity. Sure, I probably could have not gone to school and said forget it, after my parents dedided they couldn't afford to send me but I didn't.
One thing that really irks me is this: I knew a girl I went to high school with, who had rich parents. She went on after school, and at 19 had a child. She moved into her parents apartment, which they gave her rent free, and applied for welfare, and she got 4 years of school paid for by the state. What did she do to deserve that? She was a single mother, who had everything she needed. Did she really need the state to pay for her schooling?
/rant
:D
Anyway, like I said, the thread got me thinking..what do you all think about people getting free schooling on welfare, do you think it appropriate?
-A
[Edited on 8-10-2004 by Ilvane]