[Nestromo]

I'm gonna sell the musclecars ('93 GT, '94 Z28). I think I'm gonna get another Ranger. I need to focus on school for the next 2 years. Oh well. Money will come easier after I have the diploma.

[00 Trans Ram]

Before you go selling your cars, at least pay a visit to the Administration building there at school. When I applied for school, I ended up getting an ROTC scholarship. Now, before you say anything about, "I don't have the grades for a scholarship", realize that something like 30% of all offered scholarships have nothing to do with academic performance! There is a scholarship taylored for just about anyone, as long as you can find out about it. In the same article that had the above stat, I saw that about half of all scholarships go unclaimed. Now, these included endowments, and other thing I have no idea about. But, look for them.

Finally, you can always try to get a job that has a "tuition reimbursement" program. I work for the Ritz-Carlton, and we have one (it paid $7000 for my MBA). Sure, you have to be here a year before you qualify, but it's worth it to wait the year than pay for it yourself (so long as you DO go back!)!

Basically, you want to try to increase the money you have available (don't we all!!) before resigning yourself to curtailing your spending. Sure, I made plenty of cuts during college (ate Ramen noodles and $.25 McDonalds hamburgers for a month), but I always kept my car. My priorities were "School first, car second, everything else third". I would have sold the car to go to school, but only after moving out of the apartment, selling all but one outfit of clothes, hocking all my furniture, and living out of my car!

But, like others have said, it is truly great that you realize the importance of going to school. It will all pay off the day you go for an interview and they tell you that, while there was stiff competition, your schooling made the difference in their eyes (school shows them that you can make a committment and stick to it, as well as knowing stuff)!!