you make an excellent point Big....

i don't have kids i am married and worry about most of those things constiantly...i guess i am not a lucky one when you think of a college student just going to school or maybe having a part time job and that is it....that would be nice...

i deal with almost everything you listed above. i am the one working on grandparents house and upkeep. trying to make time with my wonderful wife who is unfortunatley is diagnosedasbeingbi-polar and suffers from sever depression. having very late nights staying up with her then waking up at 5 am to get to school only to get out of school and get to work so that i can make money to pay the bills. i do live with her parents and that is a help because they don't charge us rent. trying to think of where i can save some money to get an a decent hunting year because most of it goes towards her medical insurance $500 a month not including her doctor visits and all the medicines she is on. spending time with my mother as her husband (step dad) is having severe medical problems due to his drinking.

sorry if i went on and on but the "usual" perspective you may think of when you think of a college student surely is not me, but i do wish i could just work and not have to worry about that school lengering in the back of my mind. dealing with life i find easier then having to deal with knowing whether or not i passed that test and if i didn't that could mean another semester at school. i am not one of the lucky students whos parents pay for everything. i do the repairs on my jeep paid for my jeep pay for hunting etc. etc.

i guess when you step back and look at the big picture you never really now about someone else unless you talk to them. society puts these "views" of the way things are when in fact they are not like that for the majority of us.

Josh