So my husband, son, nephew, and I went on a college tour today. My nephew went to his mom’s house first. He had no shoes. She asked what he was doing today then flipped out that he was going to have to take out loans to go away to college.Yeah I’m trying to find stable housing for your kid because you kicked him out and have acted like a ***** every time he tries to communicate with you. She even has his sister thinking that he won’t show up to her birthday because ”There’s nothing in it for him.”

Anyway we toured the college both kids love it. The plan is to have my nephew in the university by spring semester. The transfer admissions person said he’ll get in if he applies. The financial advisor is setting him up with scholarships and if that and loans don’t cover everything (they should). They’ll set him up with a payment plan if need be. We’ll try to cover it until he gets a job.

So even though my son will have an AS he’ll still need to apply as a freshman. So that means as of right now he doesn’t have the grades or the SAT scores. Luckily he has a year to pick that up but that’s another $100 at least on testing.

So they fell in love with the campus. My nephew pretty accurately described it as hogwarts for STEM. Each class is 20:1, lectures are recorded and live streamed, the different labs are awesome, the dorms are ridiculously modern.

So I got home and my sister asked how it went. I told her they loved it and he’s likely to get in for Spring. She started to talk about how she hopes he doesn’t take out loans. I nicely said grants and scholarships give him X and dorms alone cost XX so he’ll have to take out loans. I got her to chill about that. Now I’m just relaxing with a headache. My meds are not fixed so I’ll be choking down a dimond tonight. Today was a good day.

I don’t know how nice I can continue to be with my sister. I’m usually very forgiving but this hard.