Financial Problems
Phone Voice and I have come to terms with each other. In fact, we are quite close now and I will miss her. She gave me her number and address, while also telling me that I could use her as a reference for future jobs. What an incredibly wonderful gift. Not everyone offers such a nice thing. I will truly miss her, babbling screaming phone voice and all.....
I got my financial aid situation slightly in control this morning. I brought all of my paperwork into the financial aid office. I explained my situation, but was only met by a blank stare and a "there's nothing we can do for you" comment. I trudged my way back downstairs to the student service center to sign up for a deferment plan (which will cost me $75 in the long run, but better than making my parents pay money for my eduation). I quickly explained to the receptionist my situation. TADA! Instantly she knew what I was talking about and told me that I'm not the only one. In fact, hundreds of returning students are facing the exact same thing at this moment and some of them don't even know it yet.
I did recieve the correct e-mail back in May because in May my financial aid was fine and set to go. But in late June, something changed so that I was selected for verification. NO ONE was sent these e-mails or letters. We just found out by mistake when we recieved our bills in the mail.
I'd like to see that I don't even have to pay the $75 dollar bill. I know for a fact there are other students out there just as lost, if not more lost, than I am. I just don't know where to go or how to go about going against this deferment fee. I don't feel it's fair that the students have to pay for NMU's mistakes. Just because they are switching over to a new computerized system doesn't give them right to screw people over. I'm still so upset about the way they fucked with my future that I'm shaking as I write this entry.
Anyhoo, with all these financial dificulties, even more strains have been placed upon my current money situation. I'm barely making enough to scrape by as it is, but now I have to somehow make this little bit of money stretch out until the beginning of next month. I'm not quite sure how I'll pay rent or even buy groceries in the next couple weeks. It's so frustrating. Here I am struggling to bring myself out of the poverty cycle that my family is stuck in and I continue to get screwed over repreatedly by several sources. Does this never end?
People just don't understand how I can be so amazed at how a person CAN'T live off of $20,000 a year. I have no idea what I'd do with all that money. My parents have been living off of less than $10,000 a year and myself less than $5,000 a year. I have NO IDEA what I'd do with 4 times more money than what I make now. Yet how is it people still claim to be POOR when they are making $30,000-$40,000 a year??? Because they are foolish with money. That can be the only reason. There is no other explanation.
Ummm...yeah....major pet peeve of mine right there!
I got my financial aid situation slightly in control this morning. I brought all of my paperwork into the financial aid office. I explained my situation, but was only met by a blank stare and a "there's nothing we can do for you" comment. I trudged my way back downstairs to the student service center to sign up for a deferment plan (which will cost me $75 in the long run, but better than making my parents pay money for my eduation). I quickly explained to the receptionist my situation. TADA! Instantly she knew what I was talking about and told me that I'm not the only one. In fact, hundreds of returning students are facing the exact same thing at this moment and some of them don't even know it yet.
I did recieve the correct e-mail back in May because in May my financial aid was fine and set to go. But in late June, something changed so that I was selected for verification. NO ONE was sent these e-mails or letters. We just found out by mistake when we recieved our bills in the mail.
I'd like to see that I don't even have to pay the $75 dollar bill. I know for a fact there are other students out there just as lost, if not more lost, than I am. I just don't know where to go or how to go about going against this deferment fee. I don't feel it's fair that the students have to pay for NMU's mistakes. Just because they are switching over to a new computerized system doesn't give them right to screw people over. I'm still so upset about the way they fucked with my future that I'm shaking as I write this entry.
Anyhoo, with all these financial dificulties, even more strains have been placed upon my current money situation. I'm barely making enough to scrape by as it is, but now I have to somehow make this little bit of money stretch out until the beginning of next month. I'm not quite sure how I'll pay rent or even buy groceries in the next couple weeks. It's so frustrating. Here I am struggling to bring myself out of the poverty cycle that my family is stuck in and I continue to get screwed over repreatedly by several sources. Does this never end?
People just don't understand how I can be so amazed at how a person CAN'T live off of $20,000 a year. I have no idea what I'd do with all that money. My parents have been living off of less than $10,000 a year and myself less than $5,000 a year. I have NO IDEA what I'd do with 4 times more money than what I make now. Yet how is it people still claim to be POOR when they are making $30,000-$40,000 a year??? Because they are foolish with money. That can be the only reason. There is no other explanation.
Ummm...yeah....major pet peeve of mine right there!
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