Well, the title indicates something worse than it is, but I like Dante's Inferno and so I felt the urge to reference it.
Anyway, this week was completely annoying at work because of my supervisor being out at the biggest trade show our industry has. It leaves me in charge and also the only person who can answer the phones, emails, pull orders, and ship them for our department. I did get a bit of help from coworkers because they are awesome and tried as hard as they could to help with what they could, but still. LOL...okay, done ranting about that.
On Thursday night, I noticed that my financial aid was no longer in my account and that I still owed the school "x" amount of dollars. I emailed them immediately and this is the reply I received the next day.
"Your loan was recently canceled. At the end of the fall term you reached the maximum amount of time to receive financial aid.
You
have 98 credit hours attempted at a two-year college. That is about
three years of education. You can appeal this, but we just had the last
appeal for the semester. You are able to receive aid at a four-year
college"
So, the government cut me off because I had too many credit hours at a 2-year college. I get it, but I still think it's a stupid rule.
Oh and on Friday, I was looking forward to going out of town,
but then the person I was going to visit told me I couldn't this
weekend because of their work. :-( I was thoroughly disappointed, but
completely understood. I had a hectic week and had just wanted to get out of here for a day or two.
On a good note, I had already made an appointment that Friday before ever seeing the email to talk to an adviser in the Adult Re-Entry center and was going to transfer out anyway. After talking to the adviser, we came up with about 4 degrees for me to think about. The first one, requires too much math and I've never been very good with math ever (I know, I'm Asian, what's wrong with me? LOL). The second one (same degree, different university), was not as much math, but I just didn't think it was a good fit. The third, I described to a couple of my friends and one of them laughed and said it sounded like, "you hand us money and we'll hand you a piece of paper". This person is very smart and so I trust their judgement. Another one just said it didn't sound like a good degree at all. The fourth degree actually sounds very plausible and can be done all online (online and out-of-state). Plus, my friend is doing a degree pretty much just like it (on campus and in-state) and was excited for me to be doing it, too.
This week will be getting things processed and the ball rolling on this. I'll update on exactly what everything is when I know for sure.
Love Always,
Melissa
P.S. I'm also taking a class right now that I can't pay for. This week will determine whether or not I drop it. I have to find the money first.
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