thinking about priorities
Oct. 3rd, 2006 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukikageDamn... I really need to prioritize.
What's more important? Health insurance, or paying off my credit card bill once and for all? Because I can't really do both - at least not yet. Not unless I get an actual benefit-granting full-time job. Preferably one at the U.
I can't say I regret the purchases I made recently. Or perhaps they make me a bit sad, but I don't really want to take them back. But I know that now I need to be extremely tight with my money. As in, put all but $10 a week into my student account until this semester's tuition is paid off, and then immediately immediately immediately do the same putting my money into my credit card bill, then quickly pay off my T-Mobile bill, and finally do the same with my spring tuition (which will be at least $2500).
*sighs*
For oh so many reasons, I really want to return to a normal college life again. Sono hi o matteru shikata ga nai ne.
[EDIT: On a slightly different tangent - but only slightly... I'm really having trouble deciding what I want with regards to working and college and tuition. Obviously I don't want to be forced into this situation, as I currently am, but... I find myself longing for the 15-credit, 15-hours-a-week, actually-have-the-time-to-dedicate-myself-to-my-studies-if-I-so-choose lifestyle that I forget that I'd also like to graduate debt-free. Unless I start doing amazingly in college, the time to receive actually contributive scholarships is over, so my only choices really are work and loans.
Still need to get off my ass and actually apply for some Regents (sp?) jobs so I'll have possibility of having the opportunity to make that decision for real. Although that brings a whole new issue, as most of those jobs seems to be 7-3:30, and the linguistics department has lots of single-section classes that are in the middle of that time-frame. For that matter, fourth year seems to be in that time frame... And not being able to take fourth year really isn't an option.]
What's more important? Health insurance, or paying off my credit card bill once and for all? Because I can't really do both - at least not yet. Not unless I get an actual benefit-granting full-time job. Preferably one at the U.
I can't say I regret the purchases I made recently. Or perhaps they make me a bit sad, but I don't really want to take them back. But I know that now I need to be extremely tight with my money. As in, put all but $10 a week into my student account until this semester's tuition is paid off, and then immediately immediately immediately do the same putting my money into my credit card bill, then quickly pay off my T-Mobile bill, and finally do the same with my spring tuition (which will be at least $2500).
*sighs*
For oh so many reasons, I really want to return to a normal college life again. Sono hi o matteru shikata ga nai ne.
[EDIT: On a slightly different tangent - but only slightly... I'm really having trouble deciding what I want with regards to working and college and tuition. Obviously I don't want to be forced into this situation, as I currently am, but... I find myself longing for the 15-credit, 15-hours-a-week, actually-have-the-time-to-dedicate-myself-to-my-studies-if-I-so-choose lifestyle that I forget that I'd also like to graduate debt-free. Unless I start doing amazingly in college, the time to receive actually contributive scholarships is over, so my only choices really are work and loans.
Still need to get off my ass and actually apply for some Regents (sp?) jobs so I'll have possibility of having the opportunity to make that decision for real. Although that brings a whole new issue, as most of those jobs seems to be 7-3:30, and the linguistics department has lots of single-section classes that are in the middle of that time-frame. For that matter, fourth year seems to be in that time frame... And not being able to take fourth year really isn't an option.]
