I just want my art degree.
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I started school in 2010 at W_____ University (name hidden for the school's integrity). Before my first year of college could make it to the halfway mark, my dad died. We went bankrupt.
I am an art major, trying to get my Bachelor degree in the Fine Arts. I was doing well with my schooling in the beginning, bfore my reason for even attempting college unfortunately passed away. My depression and suicidal thoughts skyrocketed, and my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder began ruling my life in a way that ruined my academic integrity. I sufffered, my mother suffered, and my passion for creating art died.
Once I was finally treated and medicated for my OCD and depression in 2012, things began to look up. I was happier, I was doing better in my classes and only one year away from graduating with my art degree. I was cranking out beautiful art left and right and was the Treasurer ad Secretary of my university's honorary art fraternity, Kappa Pi. But then, a bomb was dropped on me that I apparently wasn't meant to find out about til later: my school was dropping my department. A whole department of undergrad art majors was going to be decimated in a year. They dropped classes left and right that were beforehand required for my particular major, and everything was a mess. I felt like my school didn't care about me, and I spiraled into depression once more. I tried to kill myself twice that year.
Now I find myself at the end of 2014, a fifth year senior that should have been graduated long ago. Classes were cancelled and teachers were fired, and my feeling of being a meaningful art of that school disappeared. I hated myself, and everyone else. I had no drive to succeed, but I knew I had to keep going. I was too close to quit.
Here I am now, 35 credits from a diploma, and I have found out that I've lost a significant amount of scholarship. Not only this, but I have maxed out my loans and my mother can't apply for anything (we're still bankrupt and our credit is abysmal). I just returned from a two-month traveling job over the summer to find that they expected me to pay them over $11,000 before the 15th of August. At the very least, they expect $2200 from me before they terminate my time there and I am stuck with debt and nothing to show for it. I am on my last legs, and there's nothing else I can think of. Please, help.
I am an art major, trying to get my Bachelor degree in the Fine Arts. I was doing well with my schooling in the beginning, bfore my reason for even attempting college unfortunately passed away. My depression and suicidal thoughts skyrocketed, and my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder began ruling my life in a way that ruined my academic integrity. I sufffered, my mother suffered, and my passion for creating art died.
Once I was finally treated and medicated for my OCD and depression in 2012, things began to look up. I was happier, I was doing better in my classes and only one year away from graduating with my art degree. I was cranking out beautiful art left and right and was the Treasurer ad Secretary of my university's honorary art fraternity, Kappa Pi. But then, a bomb was dropped on me that I apparently wasn't meant to find out about til later: my school was dropping my department. A whole department of undergrad art majors was going to be decimated in a year. They dropped classes left and right that were beforehand required for my particular major, and everything was a mess. I felt like my school didn't care about me, and I spiraled into depression once more. I tried to kill myself twice that year.
Now I find myself at the end of 2014, a fifth year senior that should have been graduated long ago. Classes were cancelled and teachers were fired, and my feeling of being a meaningful art of that school disappeared. I hated myself, and everyone else. I had no drive to succeed, but I knew I had to keep going. I was too close to quit.
Here I am now, 35 credits from a diploma, and I have found out that I've lost a significant amount of scholarship. Not only this, but I have maxed out my loans and my mother can't apply for anything (we're still bankrupt and our credit is abysmal). I just returned from a two-month traveling job over the summer to find that they expected me to pay them over $11,000 before the 15th of August. At the very least, they expect $2200 from me before they terminate my time there and I am stuck with debt and nothing to show for it. I am on my last legs, and there's nothing else I can think of. Please, help.
Organizer
Malina Shearin
Organizer
Indian Trail, NC
