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After the traditional, first class, meet and greet session, the instructor gave us our first assignment. We were to pair off and interview the person next to you after we returned from our five minute break. The girl that was sitting next to me, turned away from me and started interviewing the guy that was sitting beside her. At first, a bit of my youth anger started boiling. I sat there, thinking what did I do to deserve to get the turned  back treatment? I exclude the idea of it being that I was an African-American and leaned more toward it being that I was this middle-aged guy. It was that type of feeling that Taylor (Charlton Heston), in the original Planet of the Apes must have felt. Just out of place.

After class, I went to the financial aid office. I inquired about my refund from my student loans. The financial adviser offered to give me an advance on my refund. I was told I would get it on Thursday. I really need the $1,500.00. Otherwise, I would have to drive my cab Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to be able to come up with my monthly expenses for February, which includes rent due on the first. At least I’ll be able to relax and focus on school. This led me to thinking of really trying to get some additional financial assistance for 2012-2013 school year through scholarships.

30?Minutes

Average = 18 Pips

Median = 15.2 Pips

Mode (most common in data range) = 10.2

1. Was the release of the ECB balance sheet scheduled?

2. Who loaned money to the Euro-banks?

3. Why is that bad?

4. If the awarded 523 banks 489 Billion Euros why was this new news? What was the shock or surprise?

5. ECB bank balance sheet soared to 2.73 Trillion? If they have cash, what’s the problem?

A. Banks are putting money back into the ECB.

6. How can you tell banks are hoarding cash?

1. Buy at least 5 acres of land in Wisconsin or Michigan
2. Earn $10,000 per month
3. Surpass my income trading the Forex
4. Buy and sell merchandise from auctions to earn $20,000 a year
5. Resolve I.R.S. problem
6. Improve credit score
7. Reduce debt
8. Learn web design php, HTML
9. Start painting and selling work
10. Earn income ($10,000) from blogging
11. Write Memoir
12. Produce Web Series
13. Start writing songs

Lease – $92.00
Gas – $53.00
Airport stamps – $20.00

Total Expenses – $165.00

Income
$18.00
$41.00
$40.00
$14.75
$10.00
$9.00
$8.46
$9.00
$10.00
$37.65

Total Income- $176.82 (minus 5% credit cards)

Net Income – $11.82
Per hour income – $0.49