Yo Jammie,
You can get to MIT buddy! Definitely go for it. If you don't chase your dreams, you're going to regret it for the rest of your life. And we've only got the one chance.
There is one guy I know - he made his money via online poker. He started out as a university student with only $50 to his name. I kid you not, he got inspired by the movie Rounders with Matt Damon and studied the shit out of poker systems. Six months later he parlayed that original $50 into $80,000USD (that was a few years back) and now makes an easy $200k+ per year doing that 3-4 hours a day or 20 hours a week. That's not including the tournaments he now travels to and regularly pulls 5 figures for a weekend of play.
Now he studies what he loves - maths & philosophy - and that is purely for the love of it and never has to worry about bills, clothing, rent, luxuries, passing tests, whatever. (Well who is going to employ a math major?).
Hell, the way I see it...if this guy can do what he loves why the hell can't everyone else?
Money to me is freedom as well. From fear, worry, pain, suffering. It's also stored or potential energy, it's opportunity, it's the magnification of a person (if you're nice it will make you even nicer, if you're an a**hole it will turn you into a bigger a**hole), it's also the reflection of a person.
Having plenty of it is like letting a caged lion that grew up in captivity that never knew the wilderness, it's true calling - and then being let out of the cage to find it's true self.
With money concerns out of the picture, I'd take care of family first, then go get a helicopter pilots license, go to a science oriented university and study engineering, start and/or buy a few businesses, invest in some properties overseas, sponsor a few kids, donate a chunk of it to charity, go to space camp, go to china and do some acrobatics, go to the Galapogos and hang out with some giant turtles, teach other people and pay it forward, the list goes on and on.
I thought about it and I'd love to learn to trade with you Jammie. I could handle week long training sessions, I'm in the right age bracket, I'm male, also in the same/similar time zone with skype, I'm familiar with forex basics and definitely would be committed to see it through.
Oh yeah, I'd also be an official sponsor of BHW for being such a freaking awesome place!