David got back to pharmacy school
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I got back into pharmacy school!
TL;DR: I needed help paying for classes and the cost of living to be able to get back into pharmacy school. (Please read my story though, if you have a few minutes.) Also, if you don’t feel comfortable donating through GoFundMe, I also have PayPal ([adresse courriel retirée]) and Venmo (mundamudiki, 2545) When I was a teenager, my mother started needing multiple regular medications from the local pharmacy to deal with a host of mental and physical health problems, and I usually went with her to pick up her prescriptions. The pharmacists were always friendly, and though it was my mom’s medications we were picking up, I got to have a friendly acquaintance with them as well. I thought the pharmacists were cool guys, and wanted to be like them. When I was getting ready for college during my senior year of high school in Utah, I was accepted into a school with a football program in Virginia that was just starting, which is why I was accepted- they wanted players. The program simply asked that we provide a sum of money (that I don’t recall the amount of, I think it was like $150) to help pay for equipment. We could either pay it ourselves or have a sponsor provide the money, and if we were sponsored, the sponsor would get a business card printed in the program. My mom told me that we couldn’t afford to pay the money, so I had to find a sponsor. The problem was, with the program being so far away, none of the local businesses that I approached seemed to be willing to help. I happened to be talking to my mom about how no one seemed to want to help me when we went to the pharmacy for her prescriptions one day, and one of the pharmacists overheard the conversation. When we went to pay for her prescriptions, after my moms prescriptions were paid for, the pharmacist told us he had heard us talking and basically asked “Who do we make the check out to?” Ever since then, I’ve wanted to be a pharmacist. While yes, it’s for the money, it’s not for the money for me; it’s for the money that I’ll be able to help people with. I want to help another kid be able to play football. Or go to art school. Or whatever it is they might want to do. I want to be able to help people the way that those pharmacists helped me. In June of 2019, after spending a few years on getting prerequisite classes taken, I finally embarked on my pharmacy school journey at Midwestern University in Arizona. At the end of my first year, I was dismissed for having failed 3 classes throughout the year (2 by less than 2%). However! Because I performed reasonably well in all the other classes I was in, I was given the option to potentially return after taking approved classes at another school and earning a minimum of a C grade in each class with an overall gpa of at least 2.5 for two semesters or 3 quarters. I’ve completed one semester with a gpa of over 3.0 with a minimum of a C in every class, and I’m currently working on the second. My problem is that because of the amount of my loans for Midwestern, I am not eligible for federal financial aid as the limit for undergrad financial aid is much less than the total amount of loans I’ve received. I don’t think it wise to work the number of hours necessary to pay my bills with the credit load that Midwestern requires of me. While I still plan to work, it will only be for a total of about 32 hours a week so that I have enough time to dedicate to my classes- and the paychecks I earn won’t be enough to pay for all of my expenses and school. According to my calculations, I need around $3,750 in addition to the money I’ll make at work to be able to afford my school fees and my current bills from now until I would be able complete the semesters required to get back into Midwestern (early June). I know this is a big ask- but I wouldn’t be asking for this much financial help if I knew of another viable way to make this amount of money and still be able to meet the requirements given to me by Midwestern to get back into the program. Some of you don’t know me well, and some of you don’t actually know me at all; but please consider helping me. Being a pharmacist is my dream, please help me achieve it.
TL;DR: I needed help paying for classes and the cost of living to be able to get back into pharmacy school. (Please read my story though, if you have a few minutes.) Also, if you don’t feel comfortable donating through GoFundMe, I also have PayPal ([adresse courriel retirée]) and Venmo (mundamudiki, 2545) When I was a teenager, my mother started needing multiple regular medications from the local pharmacy to deal with a host of mental and physical health problems, and I usually went with her to pick up her prescriptions. The pharmacists were always friendly, and though it was my mom’s medications we were picking up, I got to have a friendly acquaintance with them as well. I thought the pharmacists were cool guys, and wanted to be like them. When I was getting ready for college during my senior year of high school in Utah, I was accepted into a school with a football program in Virginia that was just starting, which is why I was accepted- they wanted players. The program simply asked that we provide a sum of money (that I don’t recall the amount of, I think it was like $150) to help pay for equipment. We could either pay it ourselves or have a sponsor provide the money, and if we were sponsored, the sponsor would get a business card printed in the program. My mom told me that we couldn’t afford to pay the money, so I had to find a sponsor. The problem was, with the program being so far away, none of the local businesses that I approached seemed to be willing to help. I happened to be talking to my mom about how no one seemed to want to help me when we went to the pharmacy for her prescriptions one day, and one of the pharmacists overheard the conversation. When we went to pay for her prescriptions, after my moms prescriptions were paid for, the pharmacist told us he had heard us talking and basically asked “Who do we make the check out to?” Ever since then, I’ve wanted to be a pharmacist. While yes, it’s for the money, it’s not for the money for me; it’s for the money that I’ll be able to help people with. I want to help another kid be able to play football. Or go to art school. Or whatever it is they might want to do. I want to be able to help people the way that those pharmacists helped me. In June of 2019, after spending a few years on getting prerequisite classes taken, I finally embarked on my pharmacy school journey at Midwestern University in Arizona. At the end of my first year, I was dismissed for having failed 3 classes throughout the year (2 by less than 2%). However! Because I performed reasonably well in all the other classes I was in, I was given the option to potentially return after taking approved classes at another school and earning a minimum of a C grade in each class with an overall gpa of at least 2.5 for two semesters or 3 quarters. I’ve completed one semester with a gpa of over 3.0 with a minimum of a C in every class, and I’m currently working on the second. My problem is that because of the amount of my loans for Midwestern, I am not eligible for federal financial aid as the limit for undergrad financial aid is much less than the total amount of loans I’ve received. I don’t think it wise to work the number of hours necessary to pay my bills with the credit load that Midwestern requires of me. While I still plan to work, it will only be for a total of about 32 hours a week so that I have enough time to dedicate to my classes- and the paychecks I earn won’t be enough to pay for all of my expenses and school. According to my calculations, I need around $3,750 in addition to the money I’ll make at work to be able to afford my school fees and my current bills from now until I would be able complete the semesters required to get back into Midwestern (early June). I know this is a big ask- but I wouldn’t be asking for this much financial help if I knew of another viable way to make this amount of money and still be able to meet the requirements given to me by Midwestern to get back into the program. Some of you don’t know me well, and some of you don’t actually know me at all; but please consider helping me. Being a pharmacist is my dream, please help me achieve it.
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David Littlefield
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Glendale, AZ