I Has A Sad.

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 07/24/2014 at 22:39 • Filed to: Rants

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Here's an Outback for your time.

For some reason, my college decided to use a banking company for their financial aid rather than doing the regular paper check method or depositing it directly to the student's bank account - mind you, I'm more than happy to spend 7 days for a check than 20 FUCKING days for a god damn card. I can't even touch my Pell Grant money for 20 days in my quarter, now I'm just bummed. I wanted to upgrade to a Lenovo Y500, get a code for Intermediate Algebra (it's a lab, as I found out) but most importantly, I want to graduate this time around. That's now on the backburner. :c

ttyymmnn > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 07/24/2014 at 22:41

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They're sending you a cash card instead of a check? Cheap bastards. More money decisions made by people who don't need money.

mcseanerson > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 07/24/2014 at 22:59

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When you're paying for books out of financial aid it does suck major. I was on academic probation one time (I really didn't want to go to college the first time around and bombed out royally. Returned to 0.9 gpa.) and I worked really hard to get off of it. I got off of it for one quarter and the next quarter they put me back on it. I was pissed. Not only had my gpa not gone down, it had gone up. I went to my adviser to ask what the deal was. They said the problem was I had been dropping classes. This was true but I was now double pissed. One, because I paid the same tuition whether I took 12 credit hours or 22. I figured I'd use that to my advantage and enroll in 22 credit hours and any course the professor was a giant pain in the ass I'd drop. Point 2 was I met with my adviser to discuss my courses every quarter and openly told them I was doing this. They said nothing about it until I was on probation and asked them about it directly.

Now let's get to the part of the story where waiting on financial aid for books sucks. I was taking summer courses and the way my school did it was we had two sessions during summer making every course 5 weeks long. I originally signed up for 2 math courses and anthropology. My mom was going back to college while I was in high school and used to have me read her textbooks to her while we were driving places and she took anthropology so I picked up a lot. I figured it would be easy.

This course met one day a week for five weeks. A total of five classes. Each class was like 6 hours long. Because of academic probation I had to wait for my refund. I went to the first class with no book and figured I'd pay close attention to the professor and take a lot of notes. He started talking about his background and what anthropology is. Then he started talking about a story of him and his wife on a research assignment with another husband and wife pair. This was the kind of story where a man tells you about his family and friends back in the day and how much he misses his dog. After six hours I had no notes. He talked about nothing actually relevant to the class. I was stressing out but I figured I'd give him a pass and hope he got the material together for the next class. I was wrong. Two weeks with no book and no real lectures and still no refund I dropped the course. I ended up having to take Psych 101 (which I never wanted to take) the next session alongside my more difficult math class. The professor in this Psych 101 was a known pain in the ass but at least I had my book. I had 13 quizzes, 3 exams, homework questions and a research paper all due for this 5 week course. The research paper was due by the third week and required 4 different types of sources. I got a B in Psych which I felt was an accomplishment with this professor but my math grade suffered for it.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > ttyymmnn 07/25/2014 at 01:23

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Trust me, it gets worse. There are little to no ATMs available (only college), and if you want to withdraw money, good luck finding a machine filled with bills. There's a .50 cent charge for debit use at transactions (lol) and not too long ago, the company behind this (Higher One) got hit by a class action lawsuit.