> I'm pretty sure you can't put yourself through a
>US college course these days with only a summer
>job, Howard.


Depends on where you go to school. You're sure not going to Harvard or MIT while working part time at 7-11, but I definitely think it's possible to go to a community college or (in my case) a state University with a part time job and some financial aid. Without financial aid it'd be difficult to go to school full time, but I think part-time could be managed.

My parents paid for my first year of college, then after that it was a struggle to continually come up with the money to keep coming back. My sophomore year I thought I was going to have to quit school before the beginning of both semesters, but managed to get through. Starting with my junior year I moved off campus with my friend, got a job, fixed my class schedule so that I had as much time for work as possible (admitedly it helped to be in one of the "soft" majors in this respect, since there were no cases where a certain class I needed to take was only offered at one specific time/date and no other, so I was able to work my schedule so I had three days a week free for work and went to school the other two weekdays) and was able to pay for my last two years of school with a combination of student loans and my own money.

I'm still paying on those damn loans, but knowing what I know now, I think I could have made it through all four years "by myself". But that's with 20/20 hindsight, of course.

-- Dave