I know everyone in college has trouble with beaurocracy, but this is fing ridiculous. I’ve never wanted to hurt anyone as much as I want to hurt my university right now. They purged my schedule three semesters for no reason - and I didn’t bitch too much, but this semester they’ve gone too fing far!
It’s my Senior year, and my three years stuck in the swamps of Louisiana (away from my beautiful, small town, Western NY home) have left me one pleasure: LSU football games. I went through the normal process to order student tickets online last June and even received a confirmation email. However, when I went to pick up my tickets today, they told me to get lost.
Through some computerized error, LSU has forgotten that I exist. I should have worried when my student loan, due to arrive in May, still hadn’t shown up by last week. When I went to the Financial Aid office to figure it all out, they also told me to f*** off. They have no record of me signing up for a loan.
So when I leave LSU in May, I have one thing to tell them: You better hope I never get any wealth or power, because I hate you all SOOOO much I’d use my power to lobby against your sorry asses. Go to hell LSU!
I haven’t had any problems on your scale (ah, the joy of TOPS: free tuition…), but paying for school is really confusing. My billing statement online is a mess–I just (as in while I’m typing this) figured out that the university owes me money…So that’s what that direct deposit was for…
Believe me, whoever gave you that loan knows you exist. And they’ll find you if you don’t find them first. Better take it up with them, eh? They likely have a larger and scarier legal staff at their command as well.
I’ve hated LSU since the 1989 College World Series Regionals when somehow they beat Texas A&M TWICE in one freakin’ day. We hadn’t lost a 3-game series the whole freakin’ year. We were 58-5 before the double-header. For this series alone, I believe in Voodoo Magic. It’s the only rational explanation.
Oh yeah, and Lisa, I have the out of state version of TOPS (for non-Louisiana dopers, TOPS is a state program that pays the tuition for any student who got a decent ACT score and graduated from a Louisiana high school with a 3.0 GPA). The out of state version is slightly harder to get, but still easier than any other tuition exemption scholarship I’ve ever heard of!
My problem was trying to pay for all the extra little fees, food, rent, utilities, etc… while I was waiting for my loan. It was supposed to come in by late May, but I still haven’t heard from them yet and we’ve filled out the paperwork three times now!
I was just pissed that the first thing the girl at Financial Aid told me was (with an attitude): “We’re not a bank, you know. You can’t just ask us for money - you have to get it approved by the government first.” I’m sorry, but I’m a senior and I’ve figured out how financial aid works by now! So bite me!
I had something like that happen to me my senior year. I got notification a few months prior congratulating me on gradutating(!!!) and stating that I would have to start paying back loans in November. Thing is, I was still planning on being in school in November as I hadn’t finished school yet! I still needed credits for my majors. They also sent out a notice about my loan for that year which was scheduled to get there on time. It was rather strange. I had a loan for that year, but they wanted me to start paying it back that year too.
So there was this big screw-up with every office. Half of them didn’t have me on record as a student, lots thought I had graduated, the financial aid office was no help at all. I had to spend hours at each office figuring things out. Thank goodness I was there for the summer. It turns out that since I had had enough credits to classify me as a senior after first semester junior year, they thought I had graduated that year. So much for trying to stay ahead of things.
Maybe it’s something like that for you mandielise. It will get figured out. It’ll just mean a lot of crap on your side and not much on the other.
“We got no-necked oilmen from Texas
And good ol’ boys from Tennessee
And college men from LSU
Went in dumb - come out dumb too
Hustlin’ ‘round Atlanta in their alligator shoes
Gettin’ drunk every weekend at the barbecues…”
Randy Newman, ‘Rednecks’
Sorry about the financial aid stuff. That is crazy. There’s no name or address change that would account for it, is there? No moving or parental divorce or anything? Is your student loan federally issued?
I’m sure you’ve thought of all that but it seems really weird this stuff would happen in your senior year. Sheesh.
No change in addresses or anything, but carimwc might have a point. I was classified as a Senior my third year as well. They may have thought I graduated in May. I hate beaurocracies - they’ve turned me into a number, forgetting they have problems with dislexia!
