<prompt> Human: Im hoping someone can give me advice about how to go about going to college without putting myself into incredible amounts of debt. Im an 18 year old senior in high school from a family who cant afford to put me through college.One of my biggest regrets is that throughout high school my grades have always been mediocre. I was naive and resistant to doing work in classes that I had no interest in because I can sense the bullshit that the public school system is. Im the kid who always passed every class with a B or a C unless I was interested, of course. I had always been iffy on whether I wanted to go to college or not until of course my senior year. I have always had a deep love for nature and have always been extremely sad to read news of human pollution on the environment, and even seeing the effects of it on my local lakes. It finally clicked in my head that I could do something about this, and its my plan now to go to college for ecology and biology and to work to save the planet we are destroying. Having now realized that I want to go to college and why, I really started putting in effort this year. My overall GPA right now is 2.8 - enough to get into a school, but not enough to get any money for it. My ACT score is a 27. I plan on going to take the ACT again after studying extremely vigorously and hopefully I can get an even higher score and get some money for that. I am Hispanic as well, if that means anything. If anyone has any advice for me or any ways I can successfully work towards going to college this fall, I would appreciate it. If its not feasible for me to do this, tell me that too.  <response>: Go to a community or local inexpensive college for a couple years. Get your general bullshit classes done, do so on the cheap without falling into the trap of going deep into debt for an over priced institution, and get your grades up. Then transfer into a better school to finish your degree. Can apply for financial aid from the school at that point too. 