Starting in September.
Gen classes and gonna be in industrial engineering.
Not sure yet.
I'm working and not sure yet until I get a price.
Not sure yet cuz I don't start until September comes.
Year? I haven't calculated year. Currently I make 11$ an hour part time.
OK, you're going to be around $50K/yr starting. Let's say your CC costs you $3K/semester (that's very conservative, probably less), in a year that's $6K. If you're making $11/hr, working 25 hours/week, that's roughly $200/week after taxes, or $10K/yr, $4K/yr spending money is $80/week, you need to try to stick to that budget as much as possible. Get a homebody f*ckbuddy, and don't go out. Work out, play sports, read books from people in your future industry, learn some languages, basically build yourself as a man.
Your tax refund, put that in a 4 year high yield CD, you should be getting around $1K/yr, in 4 years you will have $4-6K depending on interest earned, that's enough of a cushion to help you move wherever you want to go.
Assuming you stay in Cali, let's say you spend about $15K/yr which seems to be about the average. That's $30K in loans if you stay off campus. You keep the same 20-25hr/week job. Get a roommate. Don't pay no more than 2 weeks salary for rent. Continue the same regimen you did in CC. After first semester, apply your azz off to every f*ckin' company in the world. Have a tight resume. God willin', and your GPA is tight, you will get picked up. From there, just don't f*ck up, and you're good, you'll easily be able to pay off your student loans in your first year of work even though it's 100% financed. Make sure you get deferred loans if at all possible.
Some pointers:
1) Learn Spanish. A lot of engineering firms are getting more and more work overseas b/c countries are transforming from 3rd world to 1st world. I met a guy from Novacast out here in MX last week, who didn't speak any Spanish. A foreign language will take you far. A lot of companies can't find bilingual Americans, and the only growth areas now are pretty much either government contracts or south of the border, so unless you're willing to work for Halliburton, I'd really try to learn a second language. Portuguese also isn't a bad option.
2) If you have the option to choose a focus, go for computer-aided manufacturing. Everything's getting automated because labor cost is going up, automation is going to be big business in a lot of countries that typically relied on manual labor.
3) Stay the course. This is the hardest thing to do. You might get a bad semester, you might see your friends out partying and drinking. Put it in your head that it's 4 years. After those 4 years, you can do whatever the f*ck you want in your free time.
If you need any references after you get into 4 year college 2 years from now, and provided you are 3.0 or higher, hit me up if God willin' I'm still around, I went to a top 5 school for engineering, I could hit up some of my connects to see what's out there.
my nikka, we need more educated soldiers like you.
for the rest of life.
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possibility of doing Fed time for f*cking up finances 
my nikka knows...
land.
