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Living in a small town, with not a lot of job opportunities and trying to afford college can be a task. I first started attended college the fall after I graduated in 1998. I took on a full set of classes, 15 credit hours. Financial aid was paying my way through, and I thought I had it made. Unfortunately, I was wrong. I had moved out of my parent's house, and was working full time at McDonald's. My body and brain were being pushed to the limit, and I (being a young kid) decided something had to go. So of course, I choose college. I dropped out half-way threw the semester and never actually withdrew from my classes. I lost my chance at financial aid, but it didn't matter to me, because I was sick of college already. That was one of the biggest mistakes I could ever make.

In 2000, I moved out to Tucson, Arizona. My Aunt had offered for my husband and I to come out there and live with her and she would pay for my college. I decided I would do it right this time, and actually go and get good grades. For two years I took general classes and I did get good grades, but then I was homesick so we packed up and moved back to Michigan. I promised myself I would get my degree back at ACC, but I didn't know how I would pay for classes.
In the summer of 2004, I decided it was time to get back in school and get my degree. I was helping my parents run a Deli in downtown Alpena, and I wanted to be a little bit more educated on how business works. The problem became affording the classes. To obtain my Associates Degree in Business Management, I needed to take 15 more classes. I was working full time, and didn't want to dive right in, so I scheduled 3 classes for the fall semester. I still wasn't sure how I was going to pay for them.
To take 3 classes that totaled 10 credit hours, it was going to cost me around $880. Then I had to add on the cost of books which came to about $350. So in total I needed $1,230 to pay for college. I was not eligible for financial aid because my grade point average was to low. Even though I had held a 3.2 GPA in Arizona, only the classes not the grades transfer on. It was time to find the money.
I asked my parents to help me out, which they gladly did. My grandparents also were more then willing to help. My parents paid for the classes, and my grandparents paid for my books. We made a deal, that I had to go to class and get good grades, and I would not be asked to pay them back. I can definitely say I am one

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