There should be a warning sign outside of every college campus that says "WARNING: WE STEAL ALL YOUR MONEY, DENY YOU AID WHEN WE FEEL LIKE IT, AND STILL WANT YOU TO COME TO OUR SCHOOL! Don't get me wrong, I love college. Especially mine. But I hate the Financial Aid department. I swear, most of my problems with college aren't the courses or the professors, it's always the tuition. Either I'm not eligible for financial aid and have to pay out of pocket or I am eligible for it but still have to come out of pocket for 1/3 of my overall tuition and still have to pay out of pocket for books. And college books ARE NOT cheap!
Because I had to take the Spring semester off, I decided to sign up for summer courses to get me somewhat caught up. And that worked out fine. Got summer financial aid (which is totally different from the regular school year, btw), bought my books (out of pocket) and I'm currently taking my Summer 1 course; Intro to Sociology. In addition to registering for Summer courses, I did registration for Fall, which honey, isn't working out so well.
Last week, I got a letter in the mail and it pretty much said my financial aid was cancelled because of my Summer status. For Summer, I'm part time but during the year I'm always full-time. I'm not understanding what one status has to do with the other especially since I always end up coming out of pocket for my damn tuition and books anyway.
So what's a girl to do besides going to see a Financial Aid advisor and getting to the bottom of this mess. I was stressing over it at first but now I'm much calmer about the situation. I'm going to finish up my two summer courses and focus on Chanae's Angels. Those girls need me and I refuse to let them down.
