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LTK:
I had a moment of unease (panic would be a big word) when I looked at the list of my grades and found that the 'current issues' course, which the whole first year of my master's revolved around, was missing a grade. I'm in my third year now. It would be a very bad thing if I had somehow neglected to do a part of that course that was required for credit, so I searched my memory for that period and all I found was a vague feeling of "fuck this shit, I'm not doing it" that I recalled having, which made me even more uneasy. But then I realised I did miss an essay I had to write and I did get to re-do it, even though the request, the submission and the grade were on three separate e-mail chains, and apparently something messed up and my grade hasn't been registered.
It would have been really messy had I planned to graduate at the end of the previous academic year and remained unaware of this, but as it is I'm sure it's easy to sort out. Still, it's unnerving to see that 'requirements not met' where a grade should be. I was going to update my CV with my most recent grades, but I'll have to leave this one out for now. I'm gonna see if there's a job as a research assistant available to me. That should make up for the fact that the student financing money hose has been shut off for me.
Fig:
Yep, hit the roadblock with my FAFSA because of the loans but I've already taken the initiative and got my loans into rehab. My plans are still to start in the Spring but I may need to figure out how to pay for them if I'm not eligible for any state grants. Not going to let this get me down, not this time.
94ssd:
So we have two different offices that handle money issues for students. The Financial Aid office that gives you money through scholarships, grants, loans, etc., and the Student Accounts office, which exists for the purpose of taking your money through collecting tuition, fees, parking tickets (a typical student will accumulate a LOT of those of the course of their time here), library fines, and anything else they can think of.
They really are the opposite of each other. Everyone who works at Financial Aid is really nice and willing to go out of their way to help you, everyone who works at Student Accounts is a curt asshole who seems to loathe every second they are forced to spend speaking with you. These people make DMV look like the pinnacle of customer service. As I just discovered, even the answering machine is extremely rude.
"You have reached the Student Accounts office, please listen to the following options and make your selection carefully..." It then spends the next minute and a half listing the names and extensions of nine other offices your problem might be related to instead of theirs before it actually starts telling you the extensions of student accounts staff members.
Fig:
After what seemed like an eternity waiting I'm officially a student. Since I'm on my own for now with paying for classes I'm only taking one course in the Spring semester, an Intermediate Algebra course since I did score high enough in the placement test to be able to test out of taking the review course. (Scored high enough in the English and especially writing parts of the test, though.) Once my loans come out of default and I'm eligible for financial aid again I'll be bumping it up to two classes a semester. Looking forward to getting back in the classroom again.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Fig on 14 Nov 2014, 11:34 ---After what seemed like an eternity waiting I'm officially a student. Since I'm on my own for now with paying for classes I'm only taking one course in the Spring semester, an Intermediate Algebra course since I did score high enough in the placement test to be able to test out of taking the review course. (Scored high enough in the English and especially writing parts of the test, though.) Once my loans come out of default and I'm eligible for financial aid again I'll be bumping it up to two classes a semester. Looking forward to getting back in the classroom again.
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Don't forget that Math thread if you need any help with the algebra class!
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