i'm not being able to sleep well these days, woried about studies.
Question Posted Saturday July 9 2011, 1:23 pm
i'm actually starting university this year (in a few months), the problem is that i always wanted to study abroad but now my parents(now divorced) do not have the finance, so i am stuck in the local university, and this is really tormenting me, so much that i do not even sleep some days... :( please tel me how to live with it..thank you :)
adviceman49 answered Sunday July 10 2011, 12:40 pm: You may not like my answer but it is from the heart.
Studying abroad is not an entitlement it is a luxury as is a university education. I am making an assumption that your parents, even though divorced, are paying for your university education. Not all children are as lucky as you and graduate from university with large debt.
If I am correct in what I am assuming then you live with this because your parents are doing for you what they can afford to do for you. They have set aside their differences in your best interest. To see it any other way is being selfish and self serving on your part.
That being said there is a way to have your cake and eat it too as we say in my country. If you really want to study abroad you could ask your parents if you can have the money they would spend on the local university to put towards the costs of a university abroad with you making up the difference.
How you make up the difference is either you work summers for it or like in my country if you can take out student loans to cover the cost of your college education you do so. When your education is completed you pay back the loans.
My advice is if your parents are going to pay for your local university schooling and you can graduate debt free. Then you do this. There are worse things in life than not being able to study abroad. [ adviceman49's advice column | Ask adviceman49 A Question ]
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