First, I spent years at the community college slowly accumulating credits, paying in cash up front as I went until I got my associates. That took me years to do it that way... and I wouldn't have done it any other way if I were to do it over.

Second, in my junior year at EMU my illness struck and staying there during recovery was the worst possible thing for me to do. Everyone should have told me to take time off, let the professors cool down, find your center, find the right meds, let your memory recover, go on disability for awhile, and just do you.

Do you think you're stable enough yet to go to college? Are you at a place where you take your medication as prescribed for an entire 4 years now? University stress can crack people, it certainly did me, and once you let your guard down you will run the risk of ruining everything you've so hard worked for. This isn't just your career, this is student loan debt. You simply can't have a melt down. You have to take ever measure to prevent one.