<p>so i messed up my first two semesters at college, horribly. a lot of **** happened with my family, blah blah blah. so my financial aid is suspended. i gotta come up with around 1500$ so i can pay for a semester on my own. i'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how i can get my hands on that kind of money. what are my possible options? work is not an option for me right now. i need to be a student.</p>
<p>*work is not an option for me right now. i need to be a student. *</p>
<p>That may be your only option. Many, many students work part-time and still get wonderful grades. Students have enough free time to work some hours and get good grades.</p>
<p>Since you only need $1500, does this mean that you are in a community college? I suggest that you work and take 2-3 classes rather than a full load. This way you can really focus on the 2 or 3 classes (whatever you can handle and pay for) and DO WELL in them, while still earning money. If you cannot come up with money to pay for the classes, work and take one class, or just work for a semester full time and SAVE as much of it as possible to pay you college bill. This is all assuming that you are living at home, and not paying room and board!! If you are away from home, consider moving back home and going to community college part time while working, or work to save and then go to community college.</p>
<p>Work. There is not a money fairy that will give you $1,500.</p>
<p>My son’s girlfriend works 35+ hours per week and takes 15 credit hours and keeps her grades up. It can be done if you have the desire.</p>
<p>Has your federal financial aid been suspended due to unsatisfactory academic progress, or have you lost a scholarship that was based upon maintaining a certain GPA.</p>
<p>You may be able to make an appeal the financial aid office for the federal loan money. It cannot hurt to try.</p>
<p>I also agree with the posters above. It may be more possible for you to work than you think. Can you get a job on campus that will work with class schedule? Many students work part time while attending college and are able to balance the two. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Definitely work. My daughter works 2 jobs, 50 hours and week and takes 16 semester hrs a term with good grades at the local university. My son is at the state university and lots of students work. At his dorm, there are kids who work the front desk for 15-20 hours a week but are able to spend much of that time studying. My sister worked 30 hrs a week at Northwestern and got through fine. I worked maybe 20 hours a week through most of my time at Case Western. Do not think that working a bit means you can’t be a great student.</p>
<p>Often, work makes you schedule your time more effectively and helps you be more productive. It can be done. Sometimes when you have to work, you also realize the importance of getting your grades up and getting a solid education.</p>
<p>I agree with others that working a job or two is the solution. The more I worked during college and grad school, the better were my grades. S, a college junior, has worked 9-14 hours a week all semesters except fall of freshman year, and he has been on Dean’s List the whole time. He also has been taking demanding courses and doing time-consuming, productive ECs related to his major. His college grades have far exceeded his high school grades. In high school, he didn’t work during the school year, and wasted a lot of time, graduating with a gpa of around 2.6 unweighted.</p>
<p>I see three options:</p>
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<li><p>Sell plasma. This won’t cover the total cost, though. But every little bit counts.</p></li>
<li><p>Sell stuff. Books, electronics, computer games, whatever, SCOUR your belongings for things that are not essential and that can make you some moolah on CraigsList or eBay. If you’re into arts and crafts, sell stuff on Etsy.</p></li>
<li><p>Work. Yeah, you’re a student. Lots of students work.</p></li>
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<p>Yup, another parent here with kids who work, play club sports and manage to study and get to class, have a ton of friends and appear from Facebook to be having a good time. The best solution for you is a job as others have said it will keep you focused. Schedule yourself…class then work then library then relax or class then library then work then relax…whatever it will be and you’ll be on the right path.</p>
<p>Ok I have the same problem you have, yet i didn’t F**k it up. I have a wonderful GPA. My only problem is that I had two online classes that didnt work, so when i dropped them it put me on suspension. I had a job as a waiter but i had to stop working because i was killing myself. I had class from 9a-3p M-TH,and 9am-4pm on Friday and that was just one class, plus two online classes, and a full time job working from 10p-6am, only times i could work. And so parents your basically telling me that Im a failure because your children are doing so well, i think not. I put my heart and soul into every class I have and have had. But let me put it to you this way, have you ever thought that working is not an option means that he has no way to get to a job that is off campus. BECAUSE if your on FA Suspension, you CANNOT work on campus because Federal Work-Study is a type of student aid…</p>
<p>^How is anyone telling you anything when this is your first post? Your situation is completely different than the OP, s/he needs to make money to continue in school and no one accused him of being a failure…just provided him with anecdotal evidence that a MODERATE amount does not harm a student’s ability to succeed. You clearly went a bit overboard on the work/class load - good heavens, when did you sleep?! I don’t think anyone would call you a failure either, just encourage you to take take fewer classes if/when they require that level of commitment! After all, you have to take care of YOU too!</p>
<p>Btw, many schools have non-WS job available on campus for students.</p>
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I’m very curious. What sort of class takes up so much time?</p>
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This is probably the posters first post using this user name.</p>
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31 hours per week and WrknGirlNStudent is not considered FT?</p>
<p>Another story that doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>There can be some clever ways to combine work and study time. For instance, night clerk at hotels can be pretty low key. There are often hotels/motels near campus. Some college libraries have long hours and if you can work 8 p.m. to midnight in special collections, you might not have a lot of business but still get paid and manage to squeeze in reading/problem sets. </p>
<p>Another path is to pick up a skill set that is well paid by the hour. One of my cousins learned to repair cracks in fiberglass shower stalls and bath tubs. She earned about $80 for a job that would take about an hour to do. She had to have transportation (to get to the different residences) and she saw some scummy bathrooms – but she also deemed her hours. Since she was a specialist, she could say “I’ll be out Tuesday at 3” and it was up to the homeowner to be there or make arrangements for her to get a key. </p>
<p>One path that might get you some dollars over the summer is to be a bellhop at an upscale hotel/resort. I write that because bellhops are tipped. The economy is slowly recovering and there might be more vacationers this summer than last. </p>
<p>Good luck. It is a hard time to be a student.</p>
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Perhaps NOT around the Gulf coast.</p>