mo' money less problems (sorry biggie)

So I made the decision to withdraw a chunk of money from my 401K to help while in in school.  And even though I'm gonna lose a little bit of it via penalties, taxes etc blah blah boring, it feels REALLY good to be taking a large amount of money from MYSELF.  Not my parents.  Not the federal government.  Me.  I don't have to pay anyone back.  I'm looking forward to being able to do it more often in the future.