Mom and Law Student?

So even though I am going to go to law school p/t while working a f/t day job I seem to be eligible for just as much in loans to cover living expenses as f/t students?? I didn't know that. It's like $18,000 a year plus I can get separating funding for daycare and a computer. I was thinking I would just take out a few thousand for a new computer (my laptop is a dinosaur in computer age & randomly stops turning on) and then maybe a little bit for daycare b/c new job has no backup care benefits and plus I need to hire someone to help out around the house a couple hours a month (if I leave it to DH to all the cleaning I may have to kill him)

But it's soooo tempting to take out more, there are all these things I can think of that we need but never have extra $$$ for... hmmmm

I went to a open house thing a couple of weeks ago at my law school (I love writing that!!) and one of the speakers harped on the loan thing saying "a lot of students live like lawyers when they are students and then when they are lawyers they have to live like students" yeah okay I guess you have a point .. but it's still so tempting!!!

Posted by lawmom at 5:20 PM |