Today, I discovered that when my parents offered to help me pay for college, what they really meant is they would get the forms for me to apply for student loans. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I realized that when my dad said he would pay for my college, he really meant that he was going to forge my signature on a student loan in my name and not make payments on it. FML
Today, I found out that, after offering to fill out my student aid application for me, my mother sent all of my personal information to a scam site instead. FML
Today, I found out that my parents are 28,000 dollars in debt and that my bank account has $27.17 in it. They took my money to help pay their debt. FML
Today, I found out why my parents have been trying to convince me not to go to college this year. I also found out where the $20,000 they just spent on landscaping came from. My college fund. Which is now $0. FML
Today, my dad asked to borrow some money off me, so I said okay. Later on, he told me he'll be using it to help divorce my mom. I pretty much just helped pay for my parents' divorce. FML
Today, after months of living on five dollars a day for food in college, I found out my parents bought me an expensive meal plan and forgot to mention it. FML
Today, my mother came over again to help me work on my Student Aid application. She also brought over the savings bonds that she has been accumulating since I was born to help pay for college. Turns out they won't reach maturity until I'm thirty. She never bothered to check out this fact. I'm screwed for college. FML
Today, I borrowed my dad's laptop to type an essay. While I was saving it, I noticed some curious looking files and I opened them. They were rejection letters from all the colleges I had applied to. My dad had been forging them so he wouldn't have to pay for my tuition bills. FML
Today, after being accepted into the college of my dreams, I found out that my mom has spent all my college savings on alcohol over the years, and she says that it's my fault for not "helping her get help." FML
Today, I found out that I've been paying student fees for the wrong account. Apparently I have been paying for some other student's tuition. FML
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Squander 3
To everyone saying get over it.... I will be seventeen when I start college. What kind of job can you get to pay for college when you're seventeen with no college education? See here's the thing, to pay you need a good job, and to get a good job you need college... OP: If your parents can't even afford to help pay, then that's a completely different story, but if they're rich and just don't feel like contributing at ALL, then FYL.
TotalPandamonium 2
I call this a moment of misscommunication. When you offer to help pay for something it means you'll contribute some actual money to things. Like may be buying books. It also said that they OFFERED. She did not ASK them to. So, it's not her fault to expect that they give her money for certain things. I know when my children go to college I'll expect them to get a part time job, but I'd also HELP them pay for certain things. So, FYL for the fact your parents couldn't be clear on what they meant.
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omgitsbritt 0
ok, and? sorry, but I had to do everything on my own.
Squander 3
To everyone saying get over it.... I will be seventeen when I start college. What kind of job can you get to pay for college when you're seventeen with no college education? See here's the thing, to pay you need a good job, and to get a good job you need college... OP: If your parents can't even afford to help pay, then that's a completely different story, but if they're rich and just don't feel like contributing at ALL, then FYL.
seanreddog 4
If getting a job is so hard, rob a bank. it's a win win! If you get caught, you can work on your education in prison, for free!!! if you don't, shit, you just robbed a bank and got away with it; the rewards of that are self-explanatory.
chillinAK 9
I got my CNA license and worked nights when I was 17 so I could go to college and get my RN. if u want it badly enough, you will find a way.
doink 0
I'm a sixteen year old in college. I work at a fast food joint a block away from my school, and I sometimes have to change out of my scrubs and into my work uniform in my job's restroom. It is possible.
cristichica 0
^^Someone's got some bottled up rage.
gingersnapper 0
******' cheapskates. The LEAST they could've done was schedule you an audition at the local titty bar.
seanreddog 4
Op, even if your parents intended to pay your way through ten years of ivy league without a scholarship, you still should have clarified with them. Getting you forms was still helping, just not enough to satisfy your expectations, which wouldn't have been so high had you spoke with your parents a little more.
Erindub 0
Well shit thise fowms are like filing taxes. Its nice of them to help out. Do you have any idea how much school costs? We're talking 10's of 1,000's sugar. I paid my own way through school but it gave me greater independence to not have to report my grades to mom
momo22_fml 0
who said parents had to help you pay get a job
kemar7856 0
**** off how is this an fml I have loans and work for school so far this year my mom has only givin me $40
alexandraa_fml 0
My college is all paid for by my parents, I guess I'm a 'spoiled little brat.' I'll save up to pay for my kids just the same one day. Your parents should'nt have mislead you OP.
fuckthasystem 0
shit