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A bit of a sigh here.
Jun. 16th, 2006 04:09 amThey really don’t make it easy to go back to school once you’ve dropped out once. Here’s the deal; when I was first at the college a few cities away from my house I goofed off for a year, everybody does it right? Yeah, it seems that a new law on the books at the time didn’t give you much leeway if you screwed around, a law that I didn’t know about then. So I messed up, I freely admit this, I used money that should have gone to school use for personal crap, oh and also I got a credit card “to help finance personal things” riiight, see past entries on how the CC bit worked out. Point is that it put down a bad foundation for me and now not only do I owe the government some cash, but I’d feel embarrassed to show my head around some of my old teachers.
-Thus re-locating to the city college of SF. Now I have every intention to pay the cal grant money that I owe back… but I’d like them to send me a location to pay them their money, instead of, yanno, making thinly-veiled threats at me. It’s like me saying “uh here’s your 300 back, I hope you don’t mind if I seal it in a blank envelope and mail it to you that way”.
So I went to fill out the fafsa because even though I’m taking only a few classes for the fall semester my budget won’t allow for me to carry the cost on my own. Even if it’s 50 dollars a month more, that will still cover transportation costs (and I’m hoping to get a fee waver). …And let’s just say that after the whole process of finding my old PIN and filling out the form… I still need to be in the black with the government to even get a look-over.
Ok. Fine, that’s a fair deal. The problem is that I have to get in touch with a CCSF counselor about what I did in the past and how I can pay up for my mistakes, and there’s no real way to get in touch other then hitting their main campus; which not only requires me to enlist the help of Ryuutchi again, but also to battle their phone service to make an appointment in the first place. Again, fine, I can deal. It’s just that I’m worried that since I registered with them but didn’t sign up for classes (because of the no money’s deal) that I’m not even on their list… which means I have to register all over again; and there’s no easy e-mail location to ask things like “hey am I regged?” or “can I ask you a question Mr. financial aid person?”
CCSF is a college in the bay area, and none-too-far from Silicon Valley; WHY is their website a pain to traverse, and why is the administration portion of it wonky?
It really makes me wonder if going back to school is worth the crap I’ve dealt with lately.
-Thus re-locating to the city college of SF. Now I have every intention to pay the cal grant money that I owe back… but I’d like them to send me a location to pay them their money, instead of, yanno, making thinly-veiled threats at me. It’s like me saying “uh here’s your 300 back, I hope you don’t mind if I seal it in a blank envelope and mail it to you that way”.
So I went to fill out the fafsa because even though I’m taking only a few classes for the fall semester my budget won’t allow for me to carry the cost on my own. Even if it’s 50 dollars a month more, that will still cover transportation costs (and I’m hoping to get a fee waver). …And let’s just say that after the whole process of finding my old PIN and filling out the form… I still need to be in the black with the government to even get a look-over.
Ok. Fine, that’s a fair deal. The problem is that I have to get in touch with a CCSF counselor about what I did in the past and how I can pay up for my mistakes, and there’s no real way to get in touch other then hitting their main campus; which not only requires me to enlist the help of Ryuutchi again, but also to battle their phone service to make an appointment in the first place. Again, fine, I can deal. It’s just that I’m worried that since I registered with them but didn’t sign up for classes (because of the no money’s deal) that I’m not even on their list… which means I have to register all over again; and there’s no easy e-mail location to ask things like “hey am I regged?” or “can I ask you a question Mr. financial aid person?”
CCSF is a college in the bay area, and none-too-far from Silicon Valley; WHY is their website a pain to traverse, and why is the administration portion of it wonky?
It really makes me wonder if going back to school is worth the crap I’ve dealt with lately.
