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Help a prospective teacher get a MA

I am not sure to begin, to be quite honest. I did not plan to ask for help regarding my current dilemma, but now I must plea for help.

In June, I graduated from Western Oregon University with a Bachelors degree in Sociology. A little before that, right before finals week (a week that took its toll on me, as I was taking finals for 23 credits worth of classes) my little car finally crapped out on me and my fiancee. I decided to take an emergency loan (a service my school offers just for emergencies like this) to fix our car and finish out Spring term and graduate. Luckily, our car was repaired just in time and we finished and graduated.

The loan, however, has ballooned out of control. I took out 700 dollars to fix our car. The loan's balance is now well over 1000 dollars.

This normally wouldn't be a problem. I was slowly saving up with my Wal-Mart job to pay it off this month. I nearly had all of the balance saved with my and my fiancee's job. I have been paying about 50 dollars a month to keep the dang thing current and saving the rest to pay it off in one shot. In six months, I have saved about 800 dollars.

Thing is, I recently lost that very same job at Wal-Mart, due to circumstances far out of my control (I tore my groin muscle and now I must stay off of it for three months. This may also require surgery) Now, that money has to go to survival. This means that I can no longer work menial jobs just like the one I had at Wal-Mart. Thankfully we had that money in savings because now we can survive the month with all of our bills paid, but now I am at a loss of what to do about the loan.

It goes further than just paying off a loan though. See, I want to get my masters of education from the very same school - WOU and become a high school teacher. After a year or two of wavering back and forth from career choice to career choice, I have finally decided to put myself entirely behind teaching and get my teaching license. Its the perfect way to give back, to better myself, and to have a relatively stable job that wont fire me because I happened to get a hernia...

The deadline to apply for the program is February 15th, which means I have precious little time to save up the extra 1000 bucks to apply, which means waiting an entire year and a half to reapply for the class of 2017. I could probably just wait, get another low paying job and try to survive, but with my student loans coming due in the next two months I don't think we will be able to. We can barely pay our day to day bills, let alone student loans and what I owe to Western.

To be clear: my situation is not urgent, or is it life threatening. If there are others in more dire situations please help them first. Don't let me get in the way of someone who is really in need. But if there is absolutely no one else, I am asking for your help. I am not asking for a blogathon or anything like that, maybe a diary. I know you wont be able to help me with the whole balance of the loan, but perhaps it will be just enough to clear the bar after I ask my fiancee's father and my mother for a loan.

Again, if there is some other person in greater need, focus on them. But if you do get the chance, some help, even just a little, would be greatly appreciated.

Organizer

Adam Brown
Organizer
Salem, OR

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