I just recently started and pretty late at 22 years old. I love it. I met so many friends just on the first day and my lecture halls made me feel like I was in a movie. It’s so nice to be surrounded by young motivated and driven people again. It’s so interesting to listen to extremely intelligent professors that have pHds in their field of studies. I rather stop working and putting my efforts into a minimum wage job and put everything into my education. If I stopped working I could take more units and join clubs and get more involved. Is this possible for a young man with no financial support? I applied for a school loan of $5,500 that will be coming in next week. I plan to have a 3.8-4.0 GPA after this first semester.
How will you support yourself and pay for your education?
If I remember correctly from your other posts, your parents aren’t helping pay for your education but you’re too young to qualify as an independent and they make too much for you to qualify for federal grants. Are you still at Orange Coast College? Tuition alone is nearly $7k and you said at one point that you needed ~$10k for living expenses, didn’t you? I know you think that coming out of college $40-50k in debt isn’t that big a deal, but it is and you can’t borrow that kind of money anyway. You can borrow $5500 as a freshman, $6500 as a soph, and $7500/year as a junior and senior ($27k total).
My suggestion to you is to keep working, because the only way you can stay there and continue to enjoy the life you’re living is to make sure the bills are paid. If you want your 4-year degree by the time you’re 25, don’t jeopardize it by cutting off the only source of your income. You can’t take more than 18 units at a time anyway, and more than 15 may not be advisable depending on what they are, so quitting doesn’t really gain you anything. I worked full-time while I was in college, and it’s true you do miss some events. But you get to graduate and stop working minimum wage jobs, which is your main goal. Don’t lose sight of that.
Good luck. 