This drives me crazy. There are no excuses. If you make the right choices, you get where you want to be. I'm 26, put myself though college and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Journalism, but found a job that made decent money. I never went back to my parents. I am now married, and own a house that has almost doubled in value since we bought it, and have plenty in savings.
Now granted, the house may not have come along without meeting my husband in college, but still. I think I'd still be in a great situation if that didn't happen.
It's about the right choices. My mom raised my sister and I working 3 jobs, and I learned that I did not what that to happend to my kids some day. I wanted to be able to provide for my family the things that I was never offered.
It can be done.
Psssst. If you're a journalism major, you might want to make a note: it's "My mom raised my sister and ME." Objective case and all that.
Just a gentle reminder from a former editor.