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I am a 36 year old single mother of two awesome teenagers and I'm trying to fulfill a life long dream by going back to school.

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to be an archaeologist and history professor as well as wanting to move to Norway since first reading the Prose Edda at the age of 11. Unfortunately those dreams got put on hold when I had my first child at the age of 19 and my second at 21. My children are now 15 and 17 and about to go off to university and begin their own lives and so it is time for me to revisit my dreams. This is going to consist of 3 steps each of wish I need help funding as I do not qualify for student loans/grants and cannot afford to quit my job to be elligible.

As the first step in this process I have been accepted to the University of Leicester to begin work on my BA in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology and am scheduled to begin classes on June 4th 2012 via distance education. In total the 3 year course will cost £10,350 with £1150 installments due every January, May and September 1st. Along with this one module requires me to go to England in year 2 for field school at Borrough Hill as well as a second trip over in year 3 for lab work. There is also an option to make a third trip for the graduation ceremony if funding allows. Each of these trips will cost roughly $2500 - $3000.

The second step in this plan is to complete a Master's degree in Nordic Viking and Medievil Studies at the University of Oslo in Norway. At this time UiO does not have tuition fees however they do require that international students have NOK 80,000 (roughly $13,500) per year of study. And Norwegian law prevents international students outside the EU from working while persuing their studies.

Finally the third step in the process much like the second involves doing further studies at UiO in the form of persuing a PhD in a topic related to Viking Metallurgy.

I have already taken steps to start covering costs on my own by working as much overtime as I can get (though this option is going to be limited once school starts as I will need to focus on school work) as well as moving from the house I was renting to a smaller, cheaper apartment with a roomate to cut costs. Unfortunately these measures alone aren't going to be enough to get me there. Any help you could give would be very much appreciated.

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My name is toby. I am 29 from New York state. I am also half Australian with dual citizenship. I also work at a historic hotel called Mohonk. My long term plan is to move to Australia at the end of the year where the economy is still very good. I then plan to go back to school with the goal of getting a phd in phsycology. I then wish to return to the u.s. and help military vets as well as at risk youth. My work will get busy over the summer so all this is realistic, but right now it is still very slow! I have exhausted my savings and cannot pay my rent at the end of this month. Please help me! I am willing to start corresponding to keep you updated on my progress towards my ultimate goal.I hate asking for help but im really scared that I am going to become homeless. I have paypal or I can give you my address for a money order. Thank you so much kind people!

To whom it may concern,

Stated Goal: $2,000.00 (by March 21st, 2012) for tuition, books and some new pants to get my academic career going... Breakdown of $1,288.33 for tuition/fees, approximately $400.00 in textbooks/supplies for the quarter, and the remainder for some pants and necessary travel expenditures for the first month of school.

I know you have many options with where your hard-earned money goes - some may make you feel GREAT about shedding a few pounds in the wallet, and others will leave you feeling downright dirty. I know this, because I was once in your shoes; money in my wallet, left only to my vices as to where to spend it. I never felt right about just handing it over to someone who, in my opinion, would merely go drink it away, drug it away, etc. It's funny how life throws these things all back into your face sometimes, and as such I find myself in need and hoping that the right person(s) will have the faith to invest in me - that's right, I said INVEST.

I don't believe in a handout, but I DO believe that sometimes we fall a bit harder than we are prepared to do and as such are put into situations that we neither expected nor are comfortable with. I opened a business that was going rather well for its first 7 months of operation. Then, through an anonymous post from someone online that "appeared" to be from my company, me and my business partner got black-balled from the industry (VERY political/bureaucratic in that particular industry). When this went under, though, it took me and everything I own with it - my vehicle, my home and much of my personal belongings. Prior to that, I spent 11 years on active duty military status in order to protect and serve this country. Yes, I've earned the G.I. Bill and fully intend to use it for its designed purpose. TheMy defining issue, however, is that the Bill pays for school on a month-to-month basis, at the END of each month of training. For example, my school begins this April 2nd so I cannot claim my benefits until the end of April, which will cause my first G.I. bill payment to get sent out in early May. The school, however, requires payment up-front and as explained above, I currently do not have the capital to get started. Once I've started, the Bill will sustain me, therefore I merely ask for assistance in getting the first quarter of classes paid, including books. I have a great academic history, and this is truly where I excel. My purpose is to some day acquire a PhD in pharmaceutics and do research to find new and improved medications for the benefit of the masses.

As for the pants, I have two pairs remaining and both have holes in the legs and crotch. While these DO technically work for all intents and purposes, it gets a bit breezy on these cold days and nights, and is probably unsightly (at best) to any of my would-be professors who may not appreciate an instructor's-eye-view of these things. As such, I figure I might like to buy a couple of pairs prior to matriculation.

Thank you, in advance, to any and all who assist me on this endeavor.

Dear Good Samaritan,
I am a single mother and I'm currently a PhD student. I am *so* close to finishing my dissertation...I need about 8-12 months to finish writing. I am seeking people to sponsor through any amount of dollars, this last year of tuition.
Even though I’ve always been a very hard worker, volunteer, loyal employee and dedicated student, my life circumstances have changed dramatically now that I am a single mother and I fear I will not be able to finish school. I *know* that if I could be sponsored to pay this last year’s tuition and help with my bills I would be able to successfully defend my thesis, apply for a job and become an ever-contributing member of society through helping to educate our future generation. I want to teach.
If you are in a position to help me get this PhD, I would be most appreciative, and I will undoubtedly “pay it forward” to others once I get back on my feet. Even if it's only a couple dollars, you will have my sincerest gratitude. Anything you can help me with, big or small will be so appreciated. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. Best wishes to all.

Hi.

Thanks for taking the time to read my request. I'm 30 years old, still in college and living with my parents. I've made a lot of great accomplishments in my life with far less support than most people who make it this far. Of course, with that said I've also made plenty of mistakes.

I grew up with a single parent, and another parent who visited annually just to stir up emotions and make my life miserable. When I was 18, I decided to work really hard to lose weight so that I could join the US Air Force. I had a strict plan that I was going to follow to succeed in life.

Unfortunately my superiors in the USAF would not accommodate that plan to independence as they forced me to find my own way from the barracks to work (a 40 mi drive), so I had to immediately struggle to get my drivers licence and I had to buy a car on an Airman's paygrade.

My income wasn't enough to afford the car and gas and other living needs that I was expected to pay, so eventually I had to leave the Air Force before my term was up (under honorable conditions). I tried to work as a civilian. The transfer was tough and I was vastly uninformed about what to do and what my options were. I'm the first first generation college student of my extended family.

After some petty jobs that would each take more than 10 years to be able to earn enough to live independently, I finally found a nice nighttime custodian job that was at least simple enough for that kind of pay. I was the night time custodian, but I was also a guy to have on call at this retirement home where I worked. If people's toilets flooded or a nearly deaf resident left their tv on past quiet hours (once I could hear one through 3 floors!) I was the guy to send up to fix it.

Having my first satisfying job as a civilian, I was able to investigate community college during the day, so eventually I enrolled and tried taking a few classes while working full-time. College was my saving grace. I never felt like I belonged anywhere until I first started to take college courses in math, science, and philosophy. I found the tutoring lounge on campus, made a lot of friends there, and I spent many hours cramming and helping those in need.

This soon led to me finding financial aid, making arrangements with my parents (my mom and my stepfather) to let me go to school full-time while I lived with them, and putting in my 2 weeks notice at work to focus exclusively on school.

My counselors advised that I pick where I want to transfer to and then figure out the details of how to get there after I got accepted. I think this was bad advice. While I ended up choosing to transfer to a university that had my desired major, Biophysics, it was 60 miles away from where my parents lived. My car that I had bought when I was in the Air Force also eventually broke down from not being able to afford maintenance while I worked, and was towed away for being in the public street for too long.

Finally, I got accepted to UC San Diego to work towards a degree in Physics with a specialty in Biophysics. When it came time to transfer, I got as involved as I could on how and when I was supposed to receive the financial aid so that I could go get an apartment and everything, and my school kept telling me, "you should get it tomorrow" until about 2 weeks into my first quarter when I finally got the support.

Despite this rocky start, I managed to get into a good shape for myself, making my way slowly but surely through school. Learning a great deal. Eventually when I felt the struggle was too difficult, I changed my major to Neuroscience before I began my upper division coursework.

So, as I settled into my schooling and struggled with maintaining financial independence on financial aid, I managed to get myself into maintaining a great aquarium hobby, owned two great little kittens from a street cat program, led as president of a student organization for one year, and eventually I got married. I also carefully learned about the stock market and managed to make some great gains with money that I had invested from financial aid savings.

In 2010, my gains were over 100%. That amounted to $2000 doubling itself, but still, that says a lot about me as a trader. However, 6 months into my marriage, she said she wanted out, grabbed the car that we both paid into (most of the money was mine from stocks; $5500 worth), and refused to pay her share of 2 months rent. That happened in December of the year of 2010.

2011 was a difficult year for me. I fought hard to maintain things, especially my head, but it was tough. I lost 45 lbs from exercising regularly, made lots of new friends, and I got some volunteer work experience in a Neuroscience lab. But I just couldn't focus well enough to maintain my finances and my grades, so I had to drop out and live back with my parents.

Despite how tough it's been, not finding work, struggling with the ins and outs of the VA, and just needing a professional therapist to talk to and help me keep my head straight but never being able to get one, I've managed to recuperate well enough and learn a lot more about this bottom floor of society that I've been so desperately trying to escape my whole life.

I've gone looking for opportunity in every direction. I've tried changing my career goals, collecting recyclables, writing online, trying any online scheme that didn't include me forking out money to get it, imagining what I could write as a novel, tried to make money through playing video games, making goal after goal after goal for myself, but still just not being able to get just the right amount of money to put me back on my feet.

I'll be going back to school in April at the risk of having to do it as a homeless person if the VA doesn't pull through for me. They recently approved my 10% service connected disability status and now I need to jump over a few more hurdles to get my more significant service connected disabilities recognized. I'm also seeing what the vocational rehab people can do for me despite the bureaucratic issues that are stopping them from helping me all the way.

BTW, this whole time that I've gone through life with common lower class difficulties, I've been disabled with a number of small conditions that all add up to a hard time. I have lower back issues that the military has yet to own up to. Community college found also that I have a learning disability which makes some intellectual tasks show up as lower than average ability for me while the rest of my intellect is high enough to expect that I could easily get a Masters Degree or a PhD. My biggest difficulty in school is that they don't give me enough time to show them what I know or what I'm capable of.

From working with special needs students as a tutor, I have proven to myself that there is a major problem in the education system. Most teachers never simplify the material into a clear picture of what they want to teach. If you want someone to learn something, the last thing you should be fuzzy on is what it is exactly that you want them to learn. We can't all work like intuitive Jedi or sophisticated parrots.

If you help me out, here is a list of the priorities of what your money will go towards, in order of their priority If you would like to request that I spend your donation on a specific cause, please let me know:

1. A working cheap economic vehicle.
I need something that I can sleep in and that will take me wherever I need to go. Preferably something that can stow quite a few recyclables as well to pay for gas, but not an SUV or truck or van (Unless that's all that is cheap of course. Not likely but you never know.).
I'll aim for great gas mileage, but I'm thinking that I should attend some police car auctions to see what the cheapest deal I can find is. This car would make a great shelter for me while I return to my far away school.

2. Investing on the stock market.
Trust me, I know how to fish. If you want to send me a request for proof I'd be glad to compose some evidence of my finest moments as well as my worst to show you that I can do well for myself on the stock market, even during the recession. What I could really use right now, is a little bait. Trading is good money for me, but to make enough to make gains worth more than the commission cost (about $10), you need about $300-1000 per investment. $300 is more for the high risk lottery plays on the market. I even made a blog about it if you would like to see:
http://www.squidoo.com/TheYoungidealistEconomyBlog
If you are willing, we can arrange something personal so that you wont need to worry about me putting the money you offer at high risk and blow it all. Might even be able to arrange something where I could make money for you to prove myself before accepting your donation. Whatever the case, I know we'd have to make it a personal arrangement to satisfy the current laws.

3. Working towards paying my debts to my friends.
My friends have been really supportive through these hard times, though they are starving students themselves. To keep up my morale they've bought me food, given me a place to crash when they could, and even paid to have me join them at fun local events. I have some money that I've promised them back, and I plan on making due on those promises as soon as possible.

4. Paying off my debts with companies.
I've had times where I couldn't afford to pay for rent and had to leave, like when my wife left me to live with her parents. These issues follow me on my credit score and I would like to work towards removing them so that I can turn my life around.

5. Getting a good start towards paying off my student loans.
I know I won't be able to pay them off before I find a good career with my degree. I would just like to have something to start making some automatic payments with and put that part of my bad credit score behind me as well.

6. Buying a home.
My mom never owned a home. No offense meant to land lords out there, but I really think the rental system is way out of line. My mom was always a hard worker. Way better than me, yet she could never own a home because she didn't have the money. Meanwhile, people with money could live in great big houses for less than she even had to pay.
I want a house to own. Probably start with a condo and seek ways to improve it and flip a profit out of it. Then I want to keep building up money from housing until I can manage to build an apartment building.
If I could, I'd like to make an apartment building near a university that offers cheap housing using the Japanese capsule model or something even more economic and more comfortable.

7. Making an online tutoring site meant to offer free tutoring and tutoring for tips. Imagine a site (I have yet to know of one) where people can collect their resources on a class, much like they collect info on ratemyprofessor.com, but also seek help from others who are taking the class or who have taken the class. Donors like you can offer money to tutors who post their notes and stories on the site, alongside ratings from other students that they helped.
Some tutors can offer their rates for help, sell their notes online for cheap, or just offer their help whenever they can and ask to be tipped through paypal if someone likes their work. My hope is that such a site could help to put an end to sophistry in the college system once and for all, making education easy and affordable for everyone.

8. After I have everything I'm hoping for above, the sky is the limit. But I would prefer to put the extra money that I don't need to good uses. I would spread a little philanthropy around, give to others in need on this site and through other resources.
I'd also look to teach others how to fish. I think a great way for the economy to be fixed would be if philanthropists made some really good employee owned companies. Make the place pay for itself, skim a little off the top, and walk away knowing that you really were a job creator.
I think that everyone who is capable of work and who chooses to work deserves to have their own independent living situation. I know that we are a long way from that, but I tend to be an optimist. I would like to try and make the world a better place, if nothing else.

Aside form financial help, I'm interested in anything else that I could get that's useful. Advice, Neuroscience Career connections, work, hobby or volunteer work that can easily become lucrative, I'm really all ears. Thanks again for taking the time to read my request. I hope you find it in you to help me out, even get to know me if you'd like. Bet you $5000 I can make you laugh. Did I win? >;) it was worth a try anyway.

Yes, I'm really 70, and I've had to self-fund my PhD program for the past five years from my small pension because no school or other source was willing to fund someone of my age. Now I'm ready to defend my thesis, but the piggy bank is truly empty, and I'll probably be unable to attend my graduation (in South Africa) this fall. If you believe in lifelong learning and would like to help me finish this project, then please donate whatever you can. Every penny helps!

I have just arrived in Europe and I come from Madagascar. I live in a poor country where the salary rate is so low and it is hard to save money for college.
But I succeeded in getting my Masters degree and now I have got that offer for a PhD position at a very prestigious University in Europe. It is a very high achievement for a Madagascan to get that offer. My family and I could gather the money that will help me to pay the first installment and the basics (accommodations and living costs for the first four months). I am now looking for jobs but I have to wait until I get a work permit (which takes a long long time). If I do not get the appropriate money on time, I won’t be given the opportunity to pursue my studies and will go back to my country without acquiring anything.
Therefore, I am begging for your charity. The least from you is highly significant for me. Please help me to achieve my goal, that of finishing my studies and be able to do more for my beloved country.

May God bless you.

I was told about the value of an education, but the joy of earning a PhD has been overshadowed by the over a quarter million debt incurred from credit cards, student loans, and a divorce. At 30, I am extremely overwhelmed and sometimes not sure how I haven't had a mental breakdown yet. I've calculated that if I could get 1 dollar from 325,000 people then I could actually have peace of mind again and think about the future more positively.

In October it's our anniversary and we've been apart since May now. The reason is naturally distance/money.
I'm in Europe finishing PhD and he is studying in not only different country but continent! We're both living with our parents, not having jobs (working just PT or freelancing/gigs to make enough for living).
I kindly ask donations just enough to make the trip possible so we can at least have our anniversary together.
$600 needed for the ticket. Thanks in advance
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I'm a 25 year old woman who is just finishing up her Masters in Professional Studies. Right now I have about 48,000 dollars in student loans and am about to incur another 10,000 this year alone.

My husband is just now going back to school and I am pursuing my PhD in Management and Organization. It's all about passion but the problem I have is paying back my student loans. I would love some help and assistance in getting my loans down a good amount so a few dollars here and there would be great!

Thanks.

I am an 18 year old homeless college student in need of your help, my current situation is living on the street with no money, family, and currently own 2 t-shirts, 3 pairs of pants, 8 pairs of socks. I have been accepted to UC Berkeley due to my outstanding academic performance with dreams of having a PhD in Microbiology.

I do not qualify for any financial aide due to me being homeless and I have no knowledge about my family.

To Attend UC Berkeley, I must have 15,000 US Dollars for classes, book, fees, room, food, and clothes. All donation can be accepted through PayPal.

I might have all the 15,000 dollars but something is better than having nothing.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and donating for my cause.

Hi,

My name is Austin. I'm currently a PhD student in Political Theory. My research is primarily concerned with examining social movements and their relationships with State power. I am very involved in social, environmental, and political activism, and my research aims to be eminently practical as fuel for aiding further progress in this ever-expanding, globalized world.

Although I teach, tutor, edit student essays, and work part-time as a personal trainer my bills are still swallowing me whole (especially those pesky student loans!). If you are in a position to donate, I would be most appreciative, as any gratuity that I might receive will surely relieve some stress. Even if it's only a couple dollars, you will have my sincerest gratitude.

Feel free to contact me via email.

Thank You for Considering the Matter!

Austin

ahsmidt@gmail.com

Georgian Technical University professor PhD begs for family support money. Wage of $300.00 per month for annual 600 teaching hours are enough only for starvation of 7 family members of the following wages per month:

wife - $170.00, (mentor of homeless children house)
son 1 - $235.00, (TV assembling director)
son 2 - $350.00, (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, attaché)
sun 3 $0.00 (student of medical college)
daughter-in-law $0.00 (university graduate, unemployed)
granddaughter 8 y. o.

$1055 for 7 persons.

PayPal is not active in Georgia.

:) Hello!

Is the past or future real? Is being a part of evolving civilization worth individual time? Is there a theory and methodology for building societies where individuals can look for authenthic truth of present phenomena, instead of serving meta-individual processes?
... i've done a PhD ... i'm going to appear in global market of ideas, research, decision-making, etc. ...
But not there yet. ... difficult social/institutional backround ... in my particular country/biography. Now looking for a "normal" job, ... important experience, but I could use my time in better ways ... for the future of persons and communities ...
What's this all about? Why you should be interested? Check out my site: ekwilibrium.pl ...
Write to me: yun@o2.pl
Yes this post is a kind of spontanic release of desperation :) ... yes i need "basic resources" ... but i dont push it on the front - you have to be sure that i'm worth of your help (see my site)
Soon or later you shall hear about me :) ...

I never thought I would ever have to beg for money. But at this point, I have done everything I can think of to try to make enough money to pay all of my bills while still going to graduate school, but now I'm worried I will have to drop out and go live back at home with my mom.

I have dreamed of graduate school my entire life and working on drug treatments to help those in need. I recently worked on a project related to helping patients that suffer from Graft vs Host Disease (a debilitating disease when the body rejects a bone marrow transplant). I want to spend my life indirectly helping people, which is why it is so important to me to get my PhD.

Please, right now I have mounting bills (I am $14,000 in credit card debt) and will only get a small stipend to live on for the next 3+ years (I just started my second year of graduate school). The school does not allow students to get outside work since we get a stipend, but I have been being paid under the table to tutor when work is available.

If you would like to talk, please email me at Bailey0505@gmail.com.

Thank you SO MUCH for reading my story.

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My name is Nick I'm 28 and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. At the moment I am working full time making minimum wage as a construction laborer and trying in vain to pay off my current student debt.
Once paid off I can get back to university and get my PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity. I hope to research environmental ecology, specifically looking at ways to control invasive species in foreign environments.

My name is Nick I'm 28 and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. At the moment I am working full time making minimum wage as a construction laborer and trying in vain to pay off my current student debt.
Once paid off I can get back to university and get my PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity. I hope to research environmental ecology, specifically looking at ways to control invasive species in foreign environments.

My name is Nick I'm 28 and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. At the moment I am working full time making minimum wage as a construction laborer and trying in vain to pay off my current student debt.
Once paid off I can get back to university and get my PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity. I hope to research environmental ecology, specifically looking at ways to control invasive species in foreign environments.

My name is Nick I'm 28 and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. At the moment I am working full time making minimum wage as a construction laborer and trying in vain to pay off my current student debt.
Once paid off I can get back to university and get my PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity. I hope to research environmental ecology, specifically looking at ways to control invasive species in foreign environments.

My name is Nick I'm 28 and I live in Wellington, New Zealand. At the moment I am working full time making minimum wage as a construction laborer and trying in vain to pay off my current student debt.
Once paid off I can get back to university and get my PhD in Ecology and Biodiversity. I hope to research environmental ecology, specifically looking at ways to control invasive species in foreign environments.

I am a 31 yers old woman, employed full time (better said working my tities off for a penuts) and PhD student in economics living with my beloved partner S. in a happy relationship. That is the general view. Not bad, right? Unfortunately it's bad. Two yers ago my partner had an accident. Nothing major, but keept him off work for a seven months. Sickness pay is a lought: 250 a month. We survived that undemaged with a little debt,which we almost paid off when S. lost his job last year. He is in his 40. and it's not easy for people his age with little education to find jobs nowdays.

My wage unfortunately isn't enough to payrent and feed to both of us (and a cat) so we slowly, slowly got ourselves in debt.

Two months ago the biggest disaster happened - our landlord informed us that we need to move out, becouse he is selling the property and moving out to South Africa. And he did without giving us back security deposit for the flat we lived in.

So we had to face finding a new place to live and gather money to pay deposit for new place and rent in advance. And that means only one thing - more debt. Becouse either of us ever took any credit we don't have almost any credit rating and all the loans we took are with high interest.

Now we are 4,500 in debt and need to pay of enormous interests that will probably leave us homeless. Somone will say that is not a big debt. Maybe in relative numbers is not, but for the two of us it's a disaster as we are not able to keep up with payments. The only last resource we see is to ask strangers for help.

If you can afford to donate even a dollar for us it will be the dollar that gets us closer to securing a roof over our heads this month and feed our cat.

Thank you for reading our story.

K and S.

I am a married man of 10yrs with two beautiful children. The last 10 yrs have been great only because my wife saved my life. I grew up being sexually, physically, and emotionally abused. Addicted to meth, alcohal, and ciggs all before 11. I had my first felony at the age of 10 when I shot a kid on school property with a pellet gone. My father was diagnosed with ALS when I was 13. This meant I had to meet mom for the first time ever. My dad died in front of me at 16. I stole 8000$ and dropped out of school and started running in gangs. After being locked up for 7yrs of my childhood and 1 year as an adult I met my wife. She was a Christian who saved my life. I have been crime and drug free for a decade. My wife now has her Phd and I make 7.25 an hour. Our 10yr wedding anniversary is coming in April and I can't afford gas more or less anniversary gifts. My hope is someone can help me give my wife a vacation she can relax on for the first time since saving me. It can be a vacation in my hometown to motel 6. I just want to thank er for saving my life. My dad would be proud of her.

I've never begged for help before. I've always worked 3 to 5 jobs to get through undergraduate school. Now I am in graduate school for professional writing and I am struggling every day. I have to keep my grades at an A level so I can get into a phd program. My dream is to attend Michigan State University's Non-Fiction program. I wake up every morning and think about getting into that program.

My name is Nay. It's a nickname. I'd like to send you a picture to show you who you are reading. I don't see a spot to post one.

I take care of my mother who has fibromyalgia (sp?), glaucoma, post traumatic disorder, and a personality disorder. I have 5 sisters but it seems that I am the only one with enough love and patience to take care of her.

When I first came to live with her, my mom stayed on her couch and cried all day. She spends 2 hours a day praying to God. She used to pray that she died in her sleep. She was severely abused by her mother and father and most of everyone. Mental illness is so hard for people to understand. She was afraid to leave the house because so many people have hurt her. Mom had not opened a book, learned to use the computer for over 30 yrs.

But now, I have her enrolled in college, reading 2 books at a time and feeling better than ever.


Now about me: I grew up in a very bad neighborhood. Only 1 person that I've grown up with went to college and has a successful career. I always promised myself that I would go all the way. I'll never stop working to be a better person.

I work as a nanny part-time. I am in grad school full-time.
It is really hard to make money. I live in a very sad state with unemployment rates over 11%.

I've overcame abuse, internal brain damage, beating the odds, and much more. I just need some help now.

I could use money for school, money to live on, money to help pay the bills, a car (since I live an hour from my university and my car is on its last legs), and friends. I don't like to complain. I like to tell success stories but this money thing is taking over everything positive in my life.

I just need a lift.

I need help.

I hope a really good person will read this and consider helping me in whatever way they can.

Even a good letter to MSU on my behalf would be appreciated. I have a 3.4 GPA but I need to raise it to 3.7 or 3.8.

In exchange I can offer a life long friendship. I am an extremely loyal person.

One day I will buy a house for me and my mom.
And then maybe I can focus on maybe having a family or rescuing animals.

I hope people do not think I am a bad person for looking for help this way. I have always been self sufficient, but now it is really difficult.

Please please write me a letter. Send me whatever you can and know in your heart that I will try to use it to make a world a better place (after I graduate).

Love and Light, XXOO

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