Colleen27
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 31, 2007
Just checking in, though I don't have much to report. According to my little spreadsheet we've paid down a whopping $376 dollars in debt since we started working on it in July. Such a pathetic little number but I'm trying not to beat myself up over it because we agreed from the start that we weren't going to put the brakes on the whole summer to pay things off faster. So that $376 is what we paid off over a month that involved a week's cabin rental for county fair, DD7's birthday party at the town carnival, a 9 hour round trip to deliver DD13 to camp, and a weekend's cabin rental when we picked her up.
In the Murphy department, my tuition went up an astonishing 8.5% for the coming year. I don't know how kids do it these days - you can't even borrow your way through school as a commuter student at a public uni any more! Fortunately I have a small scholarship for the coming year, so my loans for this year will still be smaller than last year, but not by as much as I'd expected.
On the flip side DD13 was one of the winners of the alumni scholarship from her elem, so her latest tuition statement shows a $333 payment that didn't have to come from my pocket. That's always nice to see! Her scholarship total this year so far is at a rather impressive $3700 (of $8500 total) and there's another $500 award coming that has yet to credit to the account so we'll basically be paying half price for this year. Hopefully she continues to do as well for the next three years! We also arranged to get some of her books - that's right, on top of tuition we have to buy our own books! - from a friend who is a year older so that'll save us about $100. I'm using Bigwords for the rest, just like I do for my own, so hopefully I'll be able to find decent prices.
In the Murphy department, my tuition went up an astonishing 8.5% for the coming year. I don't know how kids do it these days - you can't even borrow your way through school as a commuter student at a public uni any more! Fortunately I have a small scholarship for the coming year, so my loans for this year will still be smaller than last year, but not by as much as I'd expected.
On the flip side DD13 was one of the winners of the alumni scholarship from her elem, so her latest tuition statement shows a $333 payment that didn't have to come from my pocket. That's always nice to see! Her scholarship total this year so far is at a rather impressive $3700 (of $8500 total) and there's another $500 award coming that has yet to credit to the account so we'll basically be paying half price for this year. Hopefully she continues to do as well for the next three years! We also arranged to get some of her books - that's right, on top of tuition we have to buy our own books! - from a friend who is a year older so that'll save us about $100. I'm using Bigwords for the rest, just like I do for my own, so hopefully I'll be able to find decent prices.