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Archive for August, 2007

Think you can’t afford it?

Posted in FAFSA, adult learners, affording college, college, dreams, education, financial aid, goals, learning, money, nontraditional students, paying for college, school, tuition on August 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »

In case you’re interested in knowing what financial aid covers in real life, I will share my actual numbers with you.
The amount of money the financial aid department budgeted for me below is a few thousand more than the package they actually offered, but that’s okay. I could have borrowed more to cover the shortfall, [...]

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The countdown.

Posted in adult learners, college, dreams, education, goals, learning, nontraditional students, school on August 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For so many months, I’ve been thinking– and telling people– “I’m going back to school in September”.
Like Christmas to a child in summer, it seemed like some vague fuzzy future wonder that would never get here, so there was no reason to even think about it. But now I’m realizing that September [...]

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Time is on your side

Posted in adult learners, college, dreams, education, goals, learning, nontraditional students, school, work on August 16, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I can’t go back to school!
It’s too late!
I’m too old!
Mmmm-hmmm.
Well, consider the following, and do the math:

Take 65 and subtract your current age. 

What number did you get? What does it mean?
Well,  assuming you can retire at age 65, the number you just came up with is the number of years left in your working [...]

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