Student Aid

So, here's my most recent rant.... Student aid and student loans. I am getting my M.B.A. I took a year off for business reasons, but now I'm ready to go back. Okay, so when you attend school within the state where I live, and you are a resident here, you are eligible for grants, etc. Great. I can see that. As you are attending school, you are adding to the economy of this state, etc., because you are living here. Wonderful. However, where I live, there is no option for me to attain an advanced degree. I don't, at this point in my life, want to live in one of the bigger cities in my state where I could actually attain this degree. None of the schools in the bigger cities here have the degree available on line which I am pursuing. So, basically, I am being penalized for living here (and working my butt off here, I might add), because I am not willing to wait until the University system in this state catches up with where I want to be. Interesing. Thank you, ubiquitous state for not wanting anyone to have an education that you do not provide to them.

And don't even get me started on the new student loan rates. I have an awesome rate on my loans from my bachelor's degree -- which I also consolidated my exsisting loans from the beginning of my master's into. However, from what I am now reading, as long as I am in school, I cannot consolidate the loans I am now accruing into this consolidated loan until I am out of school and past my grace period. The rate just went up, as anyone who is in school is painfully aware. So, I'm just wondering. Just because I am going to school online, why am I not afforded the benefits of those students going to school within the state? I am living here, and working here, and contiburing more than a lot of the population will ever ... and yet I get no benefits for this. I find that interesting. I don't really care, I guess. I'll get my degree and move out of this state to a place where I can actually not only make enough money to live on, and pay back the outrageous amount of student loans I will have, but also be actually able to have a life. Good bye, Wisconsin. I think we've spent enough time together for one lifetime.