It's tougher today for middle class families to send their kids to college. That's just the way it is.
nope during the summer I worked the jobs... during the year donated plasma twice a week and lab jobs. Some "jobs" were for academic credit as well. Never owned a car in college (that sucked, especially on dates), lived with 3 others in off campus apartments, and went to the store for out of date food at a discount. I ate Macaroni and Cheese for weeks at a time and went to the Department of Agriculture for discount meats. Basically scrounged, but had a good time studying and participating in college activities when they were free (plenty) and used student discounts for other recreation.
The more you post to me, the more I'd like you to hear what I heard from an old mentor of mine when I'd whine... "excuses are like a-holes, everybody's got one son." deal with it and move on, nobody wants to hear your problems, cause everybody's got problems. What makes you so frickin special. Honestly, it was the best help, I never got.
From your e-mail, I'd like to tell you that if your kid is so "debilitated" due to low blood sugar, she needs to get worked up for an insulinoma. Otherwise your just making excuses for your kid and he/she needs to basically learn to work. Sounds like you've got all your excuses about life not being fair, can't even get a loan, too hard for your baby to work cause she's weak, college is too expensive, the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars... whatever.
E-mail me in 4 years. I've got even money that
#1. your kid won't finish college in 6 years,
#2. It'll be because he/she's got some physical/psychological excuse
#3 Engineering is hard work (depending on the type) so she's got an excuse to fail that as well.
#4 You'll try to find a reason for everybody not seeing how special your kid is and why they're all cold, evil, and ignorant of her special needs and talents.
That's why we've got "geniuses" driving cabs, cleaning toilets, and ranting against "the man" for keeping him down. My suggestion, have her major in something really useless like Psychology, Journalism, Education, English Lit, Women's Studies, Liberal Education, Art, Interior Design, and that way she'll always have an excuse for how come she isn't finding life fair.
My question to you is, How do "poor" people in our country find a way to send their kids to college and succeed? I'll let you in on the secret......
hard work... which of course you've ruled out because of...... (insert your excuse here)