It's Been a Year...

Today is the one year anniversary of this blog. It's the Frog's blog-iversary. I had grand plans of doing a special post, reflecting in witty, humorous ways about the past year but now I am not going to do that. Why, you might ask? Because I am sad and stressed. And the reason is because NO ONE WILL GIVE ME MONEY FOR SCHOOL.

Here are the reasons why someone SHOULD help me out:

• I have excellent credit
• I owe NO MONEY right now.
• I am willing to sacrifice a lot to help people in an area where there are major shortages.
• I am kicking a** in school--I will be a great nurse!
• I am willing to take a crappy loan with a HUGE APR that I have to pay off for the rest of my life. They can MAKE MONEY off of me right now!

Here are the reasons why I am finding trouble getting a loan:

• I happen to be working full time now and no one cares that I won't be later.
• I will be working on pre-reqs for other approved programs, but not in an approved program yet.
• I already have a bachelors degree. I guess you only get help for one.
• My school happens to not participate in a lot of private loan programs. I guess all the other students don't need private loans.
• I am not enrolled full time at the moment (because I work full time) but I have to show proof of at least half time enrollment before I can lock down the funding. But of course I cannot find any information about when Summer enrollment begins. And if I am not enrolled with half-time status before mid-April, my current loan application will be cancelled.

I guess I have to just wait until I have proof of enrollment. This is the first area in my life related to finances where being proactive does not help.

I can't believe this is so hard. You know, I chose this route (pre-reqs at a JC then on to an accelerated one year BSN program) to save money and time. But it seems like it would be easier for me to fund all this if I just enrolled in an expensive 4 year college and started all over. Maybe I should consider crossing to the dark side and going to USC. Financial aid would be a breeze then.