<prompt> Human: Hey friends. I recently won a secondary prize in an Ontario lottery. Its a million dollars. Im kind of completely lost. I know everyone says the first thing you should do is to hire a lawyer but I dont even know where to start. The ticket is signed sitting behind me in a safe in my dorm room right now.I grew up with very frugal parents in a low-income family. Im halfway through college, no debts or student loans.  <response>: Just a word of caution: a million dollars is a lot of money. But its not never have to work again and do whatever I want amount of money unless you are committed to living fairly frugally30,000 per year.This money definitely gives you more opportunities. But a great many of those opportunities result in you ending up back at step 1 with no money.My advice: dont touch the principal. Use this money to make more money. Use the returns for cars and vacations or a bigger house or just retire early. But if you start splitting up your initial winnings 30k for this, 10k for that etc., itll be gone in no time.Keep going to school. Despite the windfall, youll still need to work. 