I'm much more stubborn about getting eligible for graduate school at this point...(after all, I'm paying for classes with my own money)...
At that point in my life, I was too distracted by the lovelorn stuff (as well as the death of a close friend) to dedicate the time and money to living near a state university on low wages.
Didn't help I didn't get aid for half of that academic year, and they took it to court, and it took me half a decade to pay off. Lol...
Onward and upward, though. 🙂