Because happiness is only on the tagline of credit card commercials

It might be priceless, but it's sure as hell gonna cost you an arm and a leg to get there.

Rice wants me to go visit mid April for "Owl Weekend" which would theoretically help me decide if I wanted to go there. Me being stupid as I occasionally can be, I thought it would occur during Spring Break. But noooooooooooooo. Jesus has to come back from hell at the end of March! j/k if anyone's religious out there.

And it's really nice since Rice is willing to reimburse some travel expenses. But that's the crap with rebates: you need more money than it costs to start with. Like the computers and appliance stores always talk about "Instant rebates" which bring the Final price down, but that's only good if you're able to pay the original price. I mean I know I'm taking econ, but wudn't the company want as many people to buy it from the get go? It doesn't make sense to me, that's all.

Additional costs for the rest of the year, maybe:

APs: 300
Prom: 50+, though I might I might go stag if I even go at all. I already talked this with Elise, but after going all out last year, this year I don't wanna spend any money I don't have to. Now don't get me wrong, it was awesome the whole evening, but money is like a dagger that goes right through my heart.
Rice: 400+ for expenses and souvenirs and transportation
Plus however much I normally cost:

Feeling like a piece of utter crap as mom sleeps on the futon on the living room floor again while you get to party or do interesting stuff: 750++