Antonio's almost done with college! GET ME THERE!

UPDATE STORY, April 2023 So it's come down to this! $9000 is between me and the federal government FINALLY offering my federal loans to continue my education! $9000 was the billl of last fall's tuition, which as we all remember, was only possible for me to attend thanks to you all helping me pay off the prior spring semester's bill to allow me to register! I have become eligible for the FRESH START program, which takes the previously defaulted loans from my first stint at school out of the default status, immediately making me eligible to recieve federal aid. Only one problem - I still owe that $9000. To actually get the loans, you have to be currently enrolled in school. I had to skip my spring semester this year because I owe. And therefore while I enrolled in the federal program, I am ineligible to get them because of my prior debt. Yay, government! SO HERE WE GO AGAIN! Only this time, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Do you see it? I DO! Please consider donating to me through this season and the summer. I have never tasted victory so close in my entire life. WE CAN DO THIS! I love and cherish you all. -Antonio ______________ Greetings to friends, family and those I do not know: This is really, really hard to put up.  It has come to this for me and I have no choice but to do this in order for my education to continue. I have just begun my third year as a transfer student at The New School in New York City, where I am pursuing a B.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in Computer Science.  Back in 2019, 13 years after graduating high school, I returned to community college in Los Angeles to begin my college comeback, where I earned Dean’s List Honors every single semester I was enrolled (10 straight semesters), along with Academic Achievement honors, and made the move from California to New York to conclude my college journey. Im on track to graduate in 2024.  However I have run into a roadblock with funding my education, and am dangerously close to being kicked out of school due to an inability to pay. Federal loans aren’t enough. Private loans won’t be enough either. Scholarships are hit or miss and I have applied for every single one under the sun. So I’m here staring down the barrel of an average of slightly below $10k per semester-and that is part time. If I am unable to continue, it will be a MAJOR setback that will-once again-change the trajectory of my life. And I have already had those plenty of times.  You will be helping someone who is trying to do good in this world by allowing him to work on the talent and gift, in order to transition and enter a new career. You’ll be helping someone who has the drive and the capability to make it worth your generous. It’s the way I pay you back for your help. I’m not expecting this goal to be met. In fact, this goal will be moved based on the semester and it will remain open, so it gives anyone who is unable to donate today, tomorrow, and helps me keep going.  I am embarrassed and ashamed of this post, and I don’t feel easy doing this. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, yet I’ve learned from them, and I refuse to let them set me back especially when I am in the second round of my life trying to do right. I don’t expect your sympathy, I am asking you to consider even your smallest gesture of kindness in order to assist me.  This is my last shot at being the best that I could be.  Please help me not to miss. Many thanks and blessings to you all.