Last Spring Semester, I didn’t complete my courses and lost financial aid. Instead of fighting with the Financial Aid office, I decided to use the Tuition Wavier program that is part of my U employee benefits. It covered one class for the Fall Semester. Not bad.
Last week, I put in the paperwork to use the waiver for this Spring Semester. The waiver was approved, but there was a note on it, “3 more hours.” I emailed the person in charge of the program and asked for clarification. “I was writing on your form that you have 3 hours left to use on the Tuition Waiver Program. I have that you used 3 hours in the Fall semester. It is more for the records than anything else.”
3 fucking hours left! I need 16 to complete my degree. There is nothing in my paperwork about an hour cap.
I’m a fucking idiot to use a U program. I’m a fool for going back to school. I really, really, **really ** want to beat the crap out of the clueless Stepford Students in the lab who take their education for granted.
Oh, and the U President just turned in his resignation. Everyone’s leaving this hell-hole but me.
That is really too bad, sorry you’re having this stress.
Did you double-check that the person meant a cap FOREVER? I know things are different all over the place, but around here our cap is per year for full-time employees, and you start over again in the fall semester.
Yep, check back to make sure you understand what’s meant by “cap”. My father works at a university, and he gets 75% off of six hours per semester (Winter and Fall semesters), and 75% off three hours during the summer session. It’s not a one-time deal, and it resets itself come each new school year.
I try to find some humor in it: The University I work for named this biological/medical research campus after a local zillionaire who donated a ton of money to the U. Same zillionaire is an big believer in creationism and also donates money to the Discovery Institute. We’re a cutting edge research facility, really we are. Yes, we’ve lost key staff to other institutions. Yes, we named our research campus after a Bible-literalist. Yes, our president resigned. Yes, the president before him resigned because of sexual assult charges being brought against football team members. And the booze and hookers provided at recuiting parties for high school football players. Forget all of that! Take our research seriously!
In all fairness, our current president is hardly resigning under the cloud that Betsy Hoffman left under. And he isn’t even punching out for another 13 months.
Also, Anschutz may be a creationist (and responsible for all of those bizarre “Campaign for a Better Life billboards”) but he seriously saved Health Science’s ass.
Both true. I just find it very ironic that a biological and medical research campus would be named after a creationist.
The current president has done well, considering what he walked into. My co-workers and I feel that the U lacks vision. Here at Fitz, departments are not communicating and there is a lot of infighting. Any large corporation has similar problems. Hopefully, the next prez will look into some of these issues.
First, you are not an idiot for taking advantage of an employee benefit. Nor are you a fool for going back to school. You would be a fool NOT to do these things.
Second, you’ve mentioned the Stepford students before. You’ve got to stop! They exist only in your mind. And even if they do exist, their situation has nothing to do with you. It may seem unfair that they can blow off class and not face any consequences, but what’s the point in comparing yourself to them? Most of them don’t have tuition waivers, so in their eyes you probably look like the lucky one. You took for granted your free education by screwing up last semester, so I don’t think you’re justified in turning around and judging your classmates for doing the same thing (even if it does make you feel better )
I hope you stick with the classes and wrap your degree up. Because doing so will give you more options and hopefully help you escape the hellhole you’ve found yourself in.
I take the oppesite tack from monstro. I whole heartedly agree about there being Stepford Students. you know the ones - the tiny women who try to giggle and wink their way out of a failing grade, or the women who know they’re hot, and try to flirt their way to a B.
It’s not so bad until one of them tells us she reads all the time. “Because, like, I’m getting texted all day, and I put up enough messages on MySpace.”
Of course there are students like this. But guess what? They ain’t studying Mouse_Maven one bit! So why does she continually obsess about them, especially since they aren’t even at the root of her school problems?
I’m all for a good old fashioned rant, but mentioning imaginary rivals makes Mouse_Maven seem like a whiny person sucking on sour grapes.
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