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My parents just dropped a bombshell on me, my college fund is empty. Okay, let me start from the beginning. I was looking into getting a digital camera and found one that I really rather liked (Olympus c-5500 sport zoom just in case you want to get me one for Christmas j/k) and my mom said that probably wouldn't be such a good idea that I should save as much money as I could. I was sort of puzzled by this because we had already figured out a budget for me next year and I already have the money set aside for it. It turns out that my college fund is almost completely empty - sometime in the last few months over half of what was left in my account disappeared. The stocks and bonds in which they had invested in crashed and now I have don't even have enough to pay for a second quarter at SPU. I have one year left and no money to pay for it. I don't know what I'm going to do - even if I took a year of and worked fulltime I wouldn't earn enough money to pay for a year of school - mostly because I wouldn't have a degree. All I want is to be finished with school and now I can't even do that without getting myself into massive amounts of debt. Even if I took the SPU loan and the Stafford loan I wouldn't have enough money to pay for a full year. *sighs* prayer would be good.