<p>I do not have thousands of dollars to pay on any college up front, even if it’s the smallest, cheapest and ■■■■■■■■■ college you can find for me. It seems like everyone on this board is saying “no, he doesn’t have a 4.0 GPA and a ACT score higher than a 34 so college obviously isn’t for him.” Even paying the up-front costs of UW Eau Claire would cost my parents the price of a decent house. My family makes a median wage. Do you think that 100 dollar bills just fall out of our wallets like loose change? Besides, I’m not in this for the money. I’m in it for the fun. Science is literally the only aspiration I have in my life. I don’t care about cars, sports, families, love, sex, marriage, travel, religion, or anything else people pool their money into to make themselves feel better about life.</p>