Talk to student affairs. They have many students face this question every semester. They will have access to lots of relevant resources. The only thing I would

Talk to student affairs. They have many students face this question every semester. They will have access to lots of relevant resources. The only thing I would suggest is to broaden your horizons a bit. If you don't have a meal plan at the school, you need to be looking for food assistance programs, soup kitchens, church breakfasts/dinners, etc to reduce your cost of food. In terms of income, I'd consider whether it is true that you truly need a full time job or if a part time position (ideally working from home) would fill enough of the gap. Given that you're in CS, you could look at bounty programs, book keeping (I'm sure you can figure out quicken or excel or vibecode something to automate a majority of the workload). There are companies that pay people to train their AI models via chatting and providing feedback. You could work remote tech support. You could set up a side hustle providing tech support for students, start a faceless youtube channel, start a real youtube channel, etc. If your dad is no longer contributing due to some medical or accident situation, there are sometimes hardship grants and loans for students. In any case, if the worst case is that you end up having to take an interest bearing loan for a single semester, that's not the end of the world. If you're agressive with paying it down via being agressive with your personal revenue, you could be done paying it off in as little as a few years.