My current personal goal is to continue attending Marlboro college. This is an intermediate goal since it fits in in under the rest of my life goals. Continuing to go to a college I am already attending might seem like an easy task but there are a lot of factors that play in this situation, both the ones I can and can’t control. First off, since I am not a U.S. citizen or legal resident, in order to attend college in the U.S. in general I have to have a student visa (F1). I have already taken the masseur in applying for this visa which immigration still hasn’t responded to after well past a year. Which has left me in a pending state. If the answer ever comes, whether it is a yes or no, it is absolutely out of my control. But I have thought
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Although I have a full tuition scholarship from the school and other smaller ones from outside, considering that I don’t get government funding and my parents help with none of the bills, it is up to me to make sure I am on track with them. The first way I made sure that I was a little bit better set for this year is by signing up for the 20% down payment monthly plan the school has using a third party. I spent the entire summer getting money so I can make the 20% payment. Considering my entire legal issue ‘getting money’ is an entire complication of it’s own. My whole summer 's worth of hard work has gone into that first payment and once the rest of the bill has been divided into eight months of payments starting October 5th, I will have one more scholarship that will come in and lower it but am still in the process of figuring out how I am going to cover for the rest of it. I am currently babysitting the kids of people who work at Marlboro and live close by, but that’s nothing more than pocket money, which doesn’t go into my pocket really. But this mechanism at least buys me time to find other ways, and from what I have learned in life, there’s always a way. Although I do have siblings here that are willing to help as best as they could, which is not much but at least something, I know I have to and want to be as self sufficient as
Although I have a full tuition scholarship from the school and other smaller ones from outside, considering that I don’t get government funding and my parents help with none of the bills, it is up to me to make sure I am on track with them. The first way I made sure that I was a little bit better set for this year is by signing up for the 20% down payment monthly plan the school has using a third party. I spent the entire summer getting money so I can make the 20% payment. Considering my entire legal issue ‘getting money’ is an entire complication of it’s own. My whole summer 's worth of hard work has gone into that first payment and once the rest of the bill has been divided into eight months of payments starting October 5th, I will have one more scholarship that will come in and lower it but am still in the process of figuring out how I am going to cover for the rest of it. I am currently babysitting the kids of people who work at Marlboro and live close by, but that’s nothing more than pocket money, which doesn’t go into my pocket really. But this mechanism at least buys me time to find other ways, and from what I have learned in life, there’s always a way. Although I do have siblings here that are willing to help as best as they could, which is not much but at least something, I know I have to and want to be as self sufficient as