<p>The posts in this thread are way too long.</p>
<p>Dude, tell your girlfriend that she isn’t the one who’s gonna be paying off debt for the next few decades if you go to an expensive school. Go to a CSU and get this thing done with. If she breaks up with you over that then she probably wasn’t the right one for you anyway. And hell after you finish you could always try and rekindle it, that’s what my roommate is probably gonna do with an ex of his (they broke up after a year of being apart because they knew it wouldn’t be able to work at such a distance but they still have feelings for each other).</p>