College Life

I honestly don’t know what to talk about that doesn’t have something to do with my dogs or my boyfriend, and I am sure you have all heard enough about them. It just seems that I spend all of my time on work and school. Any time I have left is spent with Chris and the dogs. I do sleep…occasionally, but probably not more than four hours or so a night. I have been told time and time again that that is just the life of a college student. I can’t help but wonder why.
I believe a lot of it has to do with money, or at least in my case it does. I have to work so I can afford t live and go to school. Though I work full time I still have to borrow some money to pay for tuition and books. So because I need to work, and need to go to school to pursue my chosen profession, I go without sleep. To top it all off, when I am done with my degree and actually teaching, I will be making even less money than I am now and will have to start paying on my student loans. Thankfully they are not too high or I would really be in trouble.
Scholarships seem harder and harder to come by as I get further into my college career but school seems to get more and more expensive. Books, tuition, all of it keeps on going up, the only thing that doesn’t grow with it is my pocket book.
I know that student loans are there for a reason, and that a lot of people have them. I just don’t believe in living in debt forever!
Does anybody know how to become independently wealthy? I don’t want to be independently wealthy forever, just long enough to make it through college and then I would pass it on to someone else. I know that other people are going through the same things I am but I know that it has to be taking a few years, if not a dozen or so off of our lifespan.