archsoutherner

Hi, this is my first post after just reading a lot of other posts on this subject. I'm having financial difficulties at the grad school that I'm at. I'm really maxing out my loans unfortunately, and I'm from out of state at my university (which is a really prestigious one in the South). (I'm keeping this general because I like the school, but I have to keep my options open--unfortunately). When I came into the school, my GREs were good but not the absolute best, and as a result, I didn't get really any funding at all when I came in--so I'm paying this all with student loans. I'm just scared that they're going to eventually run out. Right now after about four semesters in a design program, I have about a 3.9 GPA, I'm active in the university, and am liked by the professors, but for some reason, I just never get a GRA/GA/GT position--even though I really have an idea that I want to teach eventually. Do you think that it would be wise for me to think about transferring? I'm an out-of-state student so my costs are high compared to other students that are in my class. I really like the university that I'm at, but I realize that because of my initial application--there is no way that they would give me funding (at least I suspect), because everyone is at a crunch here. Do you think that the university that I applied to would look unfavorably at that? What would you think my potential of getting in another University would be? I know I could get some stellar recommendations, and I know that my professors here would be really disappointed which is why I don't want to give out that much information. So, I'm sorry for being so general.