Comments | oxymoron67: The struggle is real, for lj idol

oxymoron67

The struggle is real, for lj idol

Nov 22, 2016 16:57

Longer ago than I care to remember, I dropped out of college. After three years, I got my life together (well... as together as it gets), applied for financial aid and registered for classes at one of the major universities in Western Pennsylvania ( Read more... )

my wasted youth, lj idol

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adoptedwriter November 22 2016, 22:30:09 UTC

Aw man! Sounds like my 1st semester at Florida State. They "lost" my transcripts.

AW

oxymoron67 November 28 2016, 15:52:11 UTC

Oof. That's bad. Did you have to re-send them?

favoritebean November 23 2016, 02:46:59 UTC

Woah, talk about incompetence.

oxymoron67 November 28 2016, 15:52:54 UTC

Yup. It was a combination of incompetence and folks there being told to look out for people trying to break the rules.

lilmissmagic71 November 23 2016, 05:21:14 UTC

Holy cow! Good on you for being so persistent!

oxymoron67 November 28 2016, 15:53:11 UTC

Stubbornness is one of my best... and worst qualities.

similiesslip November 23 2016, 14:10:56 UTC

That's so crazy. I'm really, really glad you persisted though!

oxymoron67 November 28 2016, 15:53:45 UTC

The first time, it was infuriating.

After that, it very much was a case of "this again?"

ryl November 23 2016, 23:50:47 UTC

So...unemployment now means you have to go back to the place you were born in? That doesn't even make good nonsense.

I've had my own run-ins with stupid college admin people. You handled it with much more grace and aplomb than I did.

oxymoron67 November 28 2016, 15:55:26 UTC

My last semester there, my financial aid got jacked up again (though for different reasons), and I went to the financial aid people and said, "Look, I'm graduating. This is my last semester. Please fix this so we don't have to see one another again."

I got fixed, though I don't know if that's the reason.