And as my bank account total dwindles and grows rapidly closer to the ZERO balance that I have become accustomed to seeing, I continue to freak out a little bit each time.
Lets start with the good news: I'm graduating in May! wow, May!! that is so soon. (brief moment of silence, and realization.)
This has been a long road. I didn't know how I would fell when I got so close, and honestly I didn't ever really think about it, because Graduation was so far in the future. Always. But here it is. Only months away and I can feel it. I'm excited?!?! It's freaking me out. Not to mention Bankrupting me. Graduating is super expensive. I can't wait for the moment when I am able to look back and say, yep! that was all worth it, cause right now it feels like they are just taking my money without any regard for what I would rather do with that cash.
Did you know that in order to be a teacher in California, you first must spend a TON of money on testing and application fees and fingerprinting, and other things to prepare yourself to apply to the credential program? No? yeah, I didn't really know that either. I mean I guess I kind of knew it, but wow. It's costing me so much darn money.
Let's start with tuition. The cost of which for my college career is somewhere upwards of $25,000 (and yeah. I will owe some of that back in the form of students loans. Soon.)
Next is the cost of Grad School. I think that is around $10,000. (did you just see how my total just caught up to the mortgage value of a house?!?!? Seriously. I could be a home owner for the cost of my education so far.)
I have had to pay for some tests that are required to teach in California, that's $96 X 4 =$384 (for tests?!?!?)
If we add all of this together, we get a staggering amount of money that could buy me a cool new car. or at least a happy chunk of a mortgage on a new house...
If we add all of this together, we get a staggering amount of money that could buy me a cool new car. or at least a happy chunk of a mortgage on a new house...
Tuition(for undergrad and grad school) $35,000.00
CBEST AND CSETS (@$96 each) $384.00
Grad School Application Fee $55.00
Credential Program Application Fee $50.00
LIVE SCAN(Fingerprinting) $71.00
Live Scan Processing Fee $28.50
So let's see what we're up to... $35, 588.50
I think I just died a little bit.
I just did a post about exactly this. Copycat, lol.
ReplyDeleteBut, you added the costs of tests twice. And no, you could not own a home for $35,000. Well, probably a mobile home. But actual homes in Paradise are at least 100K, unless they're really dumpy and/or not an actual house.
It will be worth it. We're going to get jobs, love going to work every day, and suddenly have enough money to spoil ourselves. Guaranteed! Probably. Lol. :)