Financial Aid
I really wish that financial aid would have contacted me to tell me that I was no longer eligible for the pell grant. To be fair, maybe they did. I do remember someone calling about something about my financial aid but I wasn't able to speak to the person who had called so I got confused and just let it go. I shelled out the whole lump sum for the Fall semester tuition. I could have signed up for a payment plan, but there is an enrollment fee (one time only), and though the school doesn't charge interest, the bank may do so. Thankfully, I had enough saved up to cover the tuition for this upcoming semester. Depending on how many classes I take next Spring though, I may have to consider doing the enrollment plan. Better that, with interest, than applying for a student loan. Do not EVER want to go that route again. Thankfully I have a job and I have been able to, thus far, save a nice little chunk of money for school because one bad experience with that is enough to show me that given the choice between saving up money and using that to pay my tuition and getting a loan that will cost me set funds plus interest, it is no contest.