I need Eight Grand....

Well it's final, because of one professor I had at Syracuse University who decided to write a letter and insist that I had not withdrawn from my classes, SU will not release my transcript until I pay them 8,000 dollars, which is 7, 999 dollars more than I can afford to pay. My only hope she said was if UMB might let me use financial aid to cover the cost. Sounds like BS to me, they wouldn't give me financial aid but they want another school to.

The key to my future....

I do not see anyway that I will ever be able to support my children never mind pay off any of my numerous debts if I do not get an education that will allow me to find a career that will pay me more than 12 dollars per hour. However, I can't go back to school unless I pay off that money. A viscous, viscous circle....

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I love these little babies of mine and I want desperately to buy them a home to live in some day. Hell, I would settle for being able to rent an apartment that wasn't  shared with a relative or "subsidized" by my father. After a recent incident with the agency that funds my daycare voucher I have decided I want nothing more than to be off the welfare rolls, so that I can stand on my own two feet and tell these people who want to treat me like white trash because I am an unmarried mother of two children with different non-involved fathers to (expletive, I've given up swearing as a New Year's Resolution) off!

To celebrate or not...

I received my grades for the Fall Semester and my GPA was a 4.0. I got five As in the five courses that I took.

I am overjoyed in many ways, and although I would never want to sound boastful I am very proud of this accomplishment. My second semester at Syracuse University I got a 4.0 as well, and this has made me realize that my mind is still what it once was and that I have not fried my brain as my mother has accused me of doing.(More on that in another post.)
If the UMB had accepted me as a degree student I would be sitting back congratulating myself looking forward to writing many blogs full of words of encouragement for other single moms in college, but instead I am anxious dreading the impending doom that the Spring Semester will bring.

Syracuse has yet to get back to me regarding the promised agreement they mentioned to the admissions counselor at UMB, one that might allow me to obtain my transcript and thus be admitted to UMB. I am ineligible for any type of financial aid as a non-degree student and don't know how I will ever afford to enroll in the Spring otherwise. If I am not in school my kids will lose their daycare slot, which will be quite devastating to all involved parties. Recently they were home with me over the holidays and it was so very difficult for all of us. They were bored out of their wits and I could not accomplish a blessed thing.
There is not much that I can do now but await this student debt management account manager named Ruth's phone call. I wish that I was celebrating instead!