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Originally Posted by strombad
A couple thousand for tuition, 500 for parking (Mount Royal was between 340-500 by 2010), car insurance, gas, food, rent.
Let's say you make 14 bucks an hour, work 32 hours a week on average over 6 months. You'd make about 9000 after taxes and such.
Tuition - 2500 (just ballpark)
Books - 500
Rent/utilities - 4200 (700 x 6)
Insurance - 420 (70 x 6)
Cellphone - 360 (60 x 6)
Gas - 390 ($30 every two weeks)
Total just from that: $8370
Meaning you've got around $100 a month for food. And no money for a 300-500 dollar parking pass.
Maybe there are a lot of people here who had someone pay for their school. But when you go to school full time and pay for it yourself, no, a parking pass isn't all that affordable.
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I'm not sure I get your math, or why you are using 6 months. Also, if you are only making $22,000 per year, you aren't going to be taxed at a 23% rate. You'd be more around the 6-7% effective rate.
The months that you aren't in school, you are able to work full time, and save some of that money. There are scholarships available too. Apply for as many as you can. I worked as a server/bartender through my schooling, and took a second job in the summer. I was only making $5.90/hour in wages, but would add about $20 per hour in tips. I graduated debt free and had a parking pass each semester. In no way did I think it was hilarious that I could afford the pass. I would have absolutely loved to have free parking, but I did what I had to do, in order to pay for it, food, rent, car, tuition, bills, etc. It can be done.