I am just wrapping up my studies as a university student. One thing that has plagued me for almost my entire university career is fear. Fear of graduating and still being poor. Fear of not being able to find a job. Fear of winding up just as poor as I have been for the past 4 or 5 years.

When I was starting university, I didn't quite get it. But after two years, I started to realize that I was going to owe the government my life by the time I was done school. I was on pace to finish over $40,000 in debt from student loans. Combine the loan payment with a crappy job after graduating, and the fear of drowning intensified. You see, I was one of the many you desperately wanted an education and to succeed in life, but didn't come from a family who could hand it to me on a platter; or even help with school expenses for that matter. I had to do everything on my own. So to compensate for the large amount of student loan I needed, I took on part time jobs that saw me working 20+ hours a week. My grades, free time, physical activity and my social life very quickly slipped away.

I would get SO frustrated about the way society worked! That here I was, a young man with high intelligence, putting so much effort into just trying to make life work, yet never having the time or money to do anything. I saw people that I know were way dumber than I was, but yet were making so much money!

Then, about a year ago I figured something out. The rich are rich because they want to be rich. The poor are poor because they think they can't be rich. It's all about drive, desire and being in control. Whenever you hold a job with a company or institution of some sort, most of your work is benefiting someone else. That's why they hired you right?

So the next problem was: "how?" I knew that I had the desire, drive and brains to be rich (or at least well off) but I just didn't know what to do with it. I knew I needed to work hard, but hard at what? Every legit business opportunity that I knew of was expensive. And I had NO money!

That's when I went online and discovered the world of internet marketing. I of course I hadn't heard of this by word of mouth, because no one benefits from the business by spreading it through word of mouth. Only on the internet can you find information on this lucrative market. My next question was "Am I too late?" Is the market already over saturated? Are the giants already too big? The answer is a big NO! Internet marketing is a baby. Imagine someone back in the 50s saying that the TV business is over-saturated, and there's no point of getting into it anymore. How dumb would that be? The reality is the internet marketing world is just going to get bigger and more profitable. So get in now, and hopefully in many years, you'll be one of the giants!

This is something that anyone can do. I am just finishing off my degree now, and will graduate with no debt. That's right, I said no debt. I have made enough to pay off all of my loans, have a great car, buy a house, and best of all I have free time!!! I have averaged over $1000 a week for over 6 months now, and my income is constantly growing.

I guess the main message here is that students don't have to be poor. They can be well off on their own; it's just that hardly any of them know what to do. Going to university or college is a time to enjoy life, and have fun. It's not a time to be stressed about paying rent or going into debt. Set yourself free. Take control of your future and your income. Check out internet marketing and see if it's for you.

The Rich Student is a university student who has learned to use the internet to make money. Now, he publishes a free website that is dedicated to helping other students become wealthy while they study. Visit him at www.therichstudent.net