Sunday, October 19, 2003
The Father, for some reason known only to him, still wants me to reconsider my college plans. I prefer Missouri to Texas scenic-wise, but after figuring out how laborious establishing residency is, just to go to one college of many, I am inclined to revert my course.at 6:20 PM
How would you UT kids feel about me living in the same city you do (I reference the city because I suspect the dorms are MILES apart)? I decided to go ahead and major in Latin (which means I should only have to interact with about five hundred people daily, rather than five thousand). Going to The University of Missouri for classics studies won't prepare me (for starvation, I know; but I do love the liberal arts) as well as UT will.
If I do decide to move back to Texas (yeeargh...), I won't transfer to UT until the Spring 2005 semester at the earliest, probably. I need to work for at least the summer and fall, because The Father can't even afford to send me full-time to community college. If I take a full eighteen-hour course load next semester, my tuition costs (without books) total $2088, of which The Father can pay a maximum of $1000. That leaves me to account for the balance plus books, which will literally leave me broke. It doesn't matter whether I go to school in San Marcos or Hiroshima: I can't afford to go to school anywhere. After next semester, I really should probably take a year off.
Which I don't particularly mind doing. I still feel more propelled than self-motivated. I moved away avidly in part because that made me independent psychologically. But I admit I am willing to crawl back into the womb for a longer incubation period.
