However, the student may waive the tax-free treatment of the Education IRA distribution and elect to pay any tax that would otherwise be owed on the Education IRA distributions so that the student or the student's parents may claim a Lifetime Learning Credit for expenses paid in the same year the Education IRA distributions are received. Bloom where you are planted. You have a choice to get back up after temporary set backs. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Write your short term goals down on paper.
Success comes in cans, failure comes in can'ts.
Explore what is important to you. Maybe it is family, friends, your spirituality or working hard at any given task. I can assure you that your priorities will change as you grow older. Very important that you value yourself and treat yourself like the valuable gift from God that you are. Birds of a feather flock together.