Sorry about your Daddy. You’re doing awesome for 23 years old.
Thank you. I’m doing what I can.
From our early estimates, it looks like we can stash up enough money over this year where we’ll be set in 2009. I’ll take out a special-rate student loan through my mother’s employer, use that money to finish school, and then get the heck to work. (I’m a Computer Information Systems major. Should be plenty of local employment to go around. Hospitals need computer support.)
It means I’ll have been an on-again/off-again student for seven years, even though I’ll have actually been going to class for only 5 1/2 of those seven years, but hey, I have an excuse.