Independence

You think you have it in college but unless you are funding your own education, this is merely a lie you tell yourself in a vain attempt at asserting your maturity.  

Independence, when finally achieved, tends to rush over you in waves; first the heated excitement at the realization that your life is solely your own and then the cold desperation at the unsettling inability to afford your life that is solely your own.  Money may not be able to buy happiness but it certainly can buy comfort.  What does one do without it?