Evaristo Salas Jr.

is to keep a certain GPA, which I, this last GPA, I got a 3.9.

So I was within the top 10, 10% of the school.

That opens doors to scholarships and all that kind of stuff.

So having the opportunity to do that now and then pay for it, I had to take advantage of it now.

So I had to turn down those offers, even though I wanted to.

It's simply programs that are open to people that are struggling financially, that are under the poverty level, which because I have nothing, you know, I literally just came out of prison meant that I have, I qualify for all that.

And so it's just, it's just things that are open for pretty much every individual that's below the kind of the poverty line, that kind of stuff, you know, so.

And it's a strange thing because it's a unique place to be in, but it comes, it came at a cost, you know, because at this place in my life, I'd be, you know, in a different place if it wasn't for that 27 years in prison.

But then again, you know, like I said this, so that, so like, for instance, the financial aid, I get, I get the max they can give me.

And most people don't qualify for that because

They have jobs or they had jobs before or they get social.

They've had something.

Yeah, exactly.

So the government only makes up a certain percentage.

But since I had nothing, I haven't had even a job.

Even the jobs I had in prison don't qualify as jobs because they're on gratuity.

So they pay you in gratuity.

So it's basically just a gift.

It's not something that's an actual job.

And so that actually worked to my benefit.