Update 2.
I became fascinated with technology when I saw my brothers play a game called Age of Empires on our Gateway desktop running windows XP. One day when I got home from school, I had my mom load up the game. When I tried to play it I pressed every key on the keyboard to see if it did anything but nothing happened. Then I tried moving the mouse and something did happen. I didn’t know what the something was because there was nothing to tell me what happened on the screen.
Technology is important to me because I’m blind and I use it in my everyday life. When I use technology to go on the internet I have screen reading software on my computers that read to me what’s being displayed on the website or, to write this update. I also have an iPhone that has built in software called voiceover. When I use my phone, I use it to get transportation to where I need to go or to go on social media.
Three months ago I got a volunteer position at a program located in Brookline called the Vibrant program., I train people on how to navigate their digital world. I teach them how to check their email and how to go search the internet on the computer with the same software I use. I also teach them how to use the iPhone, how to type on the virtual keyboard or how to add a contact. Technology is important to me because I use it to navigate and I can show others what I learned.

That's where student lone's and the FAFSA come into play. You're trying to pay for college all in one go, which is going to cost far more money than you could gain in a campaign like this. You pay your lone over time, not all in one go.

@8, we understand that. But all of that goes towards your college expenses, and all of that is covered by a student lone. You pay lone's like that off over time, not immediately in one go. Doing that is pretty much suicidal.

@10, your making it out like that's what you want to do. Thing is, you really can't.

@Ethin: What's "suicidal" about it? I don't follow.

I think people are too quick to jump on the go fund me, I don't get involved with those, don't share them, don't do anything with them. People get angry if they see you sharing go fund me's but you don't share *their* go fund me, so I stay neutral, and stay away from it. I think they should be used for emergencies only, but if people want to donate, it is what it is. Still, I don't think there's going to be enough in there to pay for college, probably not even for a year.

People got along just fine without these crowd funding campaigns, kickstarter I feel is different, you're asking for backing for something tangible, go fund me is just sticking your hand out and being like oh please give me money. Now, maybe tides are shifting, but I would never ever do that unless it were pretty damned dire, and probably not even for myself, like if I needed an experimental medical treatment to live and the pharmacy wanted to charge for it and it was 30 grand, I wouldn't do a go fund me, but if it were for a friend or family member, I would.

@Thunderfist, you talking about Dsa makes me think your in the Uk. Bare in mind though that America doesn't work the same way.

In the Uk, once you've paid for your university place that is pretty much done, okay, you have to take a student lone at a stupid rate of interest that you will be forced to pay back if you ever actually earn any money, but fundamentally your university place covers everything, accommodation, tuition, food etc. The only thing it does not cover is any extra expenses for having a disability such as buying equipment, paying for assistance with research or transport to lectures etc, and as you said this is what the Dsa pays for.

America is not the same though. Payment for tuition is separate to payment for other things, and generally if you get a scholarship from somewhere it covers only part of the costs unless your very lucky, and even then the schollarship that maintains your course fees is dependent on your marks at uni, in other words, if you don't do well they'll stop funding you.

I could be wrong, but I also believe in America neither the university, nor any local educational authority is specifically responsible for providing disabled students with things like equipment or extra financial assistance to pay for transport etc, I believe in the states those sorts of things either fall to the student to cover  or need to be applied for from other organisations who usually have their own agenda on what they will or will not pay for.

So, bottom line, where in the Uk for your univesity place  has one major bill which you get a governmental lone to cope with, and then get dsa from your local authority to assist in access matters, in America you have a hole bunch of different bills from tuition, to living expenses, and far less centralisation in what organisations are around to help.

This isn't to say the Uk system is perfect either, not with basically saddling you with a huge debt and insuring that if you ever do! earn any sort of wage a large chunk will be going to pay it off, but it is at least more possible financially assuming you have the  initial marks required for university entrance, plus the Dsa is manifestly a good thing.

As I said I could be entirely wrong here, since obviously my experience of the American system is very second hand, so feel free to correct me if I've got things off.

As to the go fund me, I don't have a problem with people asking, but my concern here is more one of stability, since you are going to be at university  at least a few years,  its doubtful that people would be willing to give a constant supply of cash to keep you going throughout that entire time, particularly if your essentially looking for funds to pay for your daily living expenses.

go fund me is a nice idea if you have a one time bill such as  a medical expense but I'm less sure whether it would work for something sustainable.

I also wonder from admitedly the little I know about America if you've exhausted all the possibilities there, since between charities, agencies, and state, federal and local authorities it  sounds like in the states if you want to actually  any decent source of funding  have to take ten different small sources from various organisations rather than just one or two from somewhere central.

Two days ago I went to visit a collage to see if I liked it and, I talked with my state services the  Massachusetts commission for the blind. I asked them if they would pay for my books and they said they would pay a certain amount. They didn’t tell me how much they would pay. I also asked about  tuition and they said that they would pay some of it and I would pay the rest. They couldn’t say how much until I decide where I want to go. I would have to pay for my own transportation and if the college has dining plans I would have to pay for that myself too.