going back to school
Okay, so I applied for re-admission to the University of Washington sent my $50 and was pretty confident that I wouldn't have any trouble getting back in. Still, I wasn't 100% certain, its gotten harder to get into school there so there was always to possibility I might not be allowed to return...?
I got home from Detroit yesterday (sad) and checked my over stuffed mailbox and there was my letter, yes I can come back. *happy dance* So I am finally going to finish my political science degree I started to many years and major-changes later!
There was also a letter from UW financial aid explaining I am ineligible for financial aid. Lovely. Long story short my last quarter there I failed one class- Botany of all things. I missed the final due to some random $1 charge to ride the foot ferry that I'd never known of before that day and my lack of carrying cash and their lack of taking plastic. In the end the $1 charge went away long before the foot ferry itself did. ...figures... the professor was uncooperative afterward... I think I can easily fight this decision of theirs regarding my financial aid. *nods*
So already I am going to have to start fighting the school I said I'd never go back to simply because I was so jaded at age 18 about the money-making institution that college turned out to be. I had a perhaps immature and romanticized idea of what college was suppose to be and when it was anything but I resented UW for it. Its not just UW, its all colleges, its the educational system in the US... just like with health care a little more socialism wouldn't hurt! Whatever... I know it for what it is now, and I am ready to go in and dammit- get a degree! I'm not there for some "experience" or "intellectual stimulation" even- I can get that where I need to. From you dear University of Washington I just want that damn degree and would prefer the least amount of hassle in getting it- but don't expect that.
So alas- here I go.
I got home from Detroit yesterday (sad) and checked my over stuffed mailbox and there was my letter, yes I can come back. *happy dance* So I am finally going to finish my political science degree I started to many years and major-changes later!
There was also a letter from UW financial aid explaining I am ineligible for financial aid. Lovely. Long story short my last quarter there I failed one class- Botany of all things. I missed the final due to some random $1 charge to ride the foot ferry that I'd never known of before that day and my lack of carrying cash and their lack of taking plastic. In the end the $1 charge went away long before the foot ferry itself did. ...figures... the professor was uncooperative afterward... I think I can easily fight this decision of theirs regarding my financial aid. *nods*
So already I am going to have to start fighting the school I said I'd never go back to simply because I was so jaded at age 18 about the money-making institution that college turned out to be. I had a perhaps immature and romanticized idea of what college was suppose to be and when it was anything but I resented UW for it. Its not just UW, its all colleges, its the educational system in the US... just like with health care a little more socialism wouldn't hurt! Whatever... I know it for what it is now, and I am ready to go in and dammit- get a degree! I'm not there for some "experience" or "intellectual stimulation" even- I can get that where I need to. From you dear University of Washington I just want that damn degree and would prefer the least amount of hassle in getting it- but don't expect that.
So alas- here I go.