It sounded to me as if she had had a very bad early life and had decided to turn it around. So many don't do that. I really do congratulate her. She emphasized that she is alone, she is working 3/4 time, and of course if she comes from a bad background she isn't properly prepared for college so earning a 3.0 is a struggle. My own kid, who was an honor-roll student at one of the top high schools in the US, was really stunned during her first year in college when she found out how hard it is, and she wasn't trying to work 30 hours a week. So I'm not down on this young girl. She just sounded lonely, scared, and exhausted to me, deeply worried about her college loans, and wondering if she'd made the right choice in taking on those loans. It's okay to feel some doubt sometimes!
I keep asking my oldest daughter to think about what she wants to do with her English Comp degree (she’s a great writer). I told her once, if she would pick up a physics minor (she was straight A’s in math and science in HS), I could build a company around her writing technical documents (a lot of companies take techies who can’t write or writers who can’t comprehend the science to write manuals). She’ll probably become a conservative Erma Bombeck. Now my youngest already knows what she wants, (and has since she entered high school). I just think that long before you get to grad school, you have to know what you want to do with your life. I wish Jenny well, but she needs to have some goals.