NJIT

Another year has past and finally I have been accepted into NJIT. They have decided to overlook my lack of pre calculus and I hopefully will be starting at the end of this month. My major hurtle as of now is getting financial aid so that I can actually pay for school. They sent me my acceptance letter via email in June and since then I have been rushing to get everything ready for my new campus life. I had to quickly fill out my FAFSA so that it would be ready for the school to look at. It ended up taking the school a whole month before they send me my physical acceptance letter that had all of the information needed to get things set up. I received the letter in the mail Thursday on the 29th. I'm seriously worried about how I am going to pay for college and it has been keeping me up ever since I learned that I was accepted. I have so many things that I have to do before the 23rd of this month (the 23rd is move in day for the dorms) and I haven't even sent in my on-campus housing application for fear that if I don't get financial aid then I won't be able to pay for school at all. There is a 50 dollar deposit for a dorm room but if you cancel early or don't show up you have to pay a 750 dollar fee (I don't know about anyone else but I just don't have that kind of money to be tossing around). I mean all I need is some merit based scholarships and I'll keep the grades, that is the easy part. The hard part is getting the scholarships in the first place, especially in such a short period of time. And then I also have to come up with the money to pay for extra things that aren't covered by the school such as: a gi for physical ed, art supplies for my drawing class, a laptop that will be able to keep up with Digital Design work....all in all this 'getting ready for college' stuff is kind of stressful. I think I'm getting premature grays!