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Back to school, back to school...
Well, in exactly one week, I go back to school. I can hardly wait (I hate it here) though there have been a couple of disappointments:

Tuition, fees, etc. went up so much (approximately 20%) since I last attended that I had to get a loan. My dad controls all the money. He hates asking for help, and refuses to give me the information I require to apply for federal aid. He even goes as far as hiding the tax documents. It's ridiculous! He's a federal employee; I should be able to get some sort of aid, but no, I had to apply for a loan. Interest is 3%, so that's not bad. My mom wasn't really any help in getting the information I needed for the FAFSA either. This blind ignorance shall hang over their heads until the day they die. I will never forgive them for this. :hopping:

Now the icing on the cake. I am a senior as of this semester. Seniors get to live in the townhouses with a room of their own and three other roommates. When they were first built, there was a rule you could only live there for two semesters, so everyone had an equal chance of living there, but apparently, they did away with this rule, and now I'll never get to stay there. No worries, there's still the apartments, which aren't as nice, but basically offer the same features.

I had to email the housing coordinator or whatever the hell she's called, cause they didn't assign me housing, and it was two weeks till the start of the semester. My school is notorious for letting you know about housing last minute. I found out I've been stuck in a suite with three other people. >.< I am not pleased. There is a chance I could be moved last minute if something higher on my priority list opens, but I'm not holding my breath. I'd say I have a 10% chance of moving. I want some ****ing privacy! I'm a senior! I'm tired of living with people in the same room.

Ugh, just give me my ****ing degree already! A meteor should turn my school into a hot, smoldering crater. :hopping:

On the bright side, I won't be home. ^_^

 

Offline Corsair

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...to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.
I've got my lunch packed up. My boots tied tight. I hope I don't get in a fight...

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Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline redmenace

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Claim your self as a dependent next tax season. Although your dad might not like that.
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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I've been back in school since last week.

You suck.
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Blind people with them..."

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Offline Grey Wolf

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Truly mature, Jetmech.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw

 
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Truly mature, Jetmech.


I try (not really).
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Offline Ford Prefect

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I just got to Stony Brook on Friday. I'm a freshman, so I'm confused as all hell right now.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel

 

Offline CP5670

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My college semester starts on Wednesday. It's going to be much tougher than my last two, but it was unavoidable.

I live at home and commute, so I don't have to share my room with anyone and have no housing costs. :D This combined with state residency status and scholarships make a good combination as far as the money is concerned.

 

Offline Martinus

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I try (not really).

[color=66ff00]I'd try harder where I you.
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[color=66ff00]I'd try harder where I you.
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Ok, I'm starting to think you guys are assuming I'm trying to demean ES (based on your inabilities to fathom kidding around without the use of smilies :p). I'm not.
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[color=66ff00]Sounds more like you haven't got the knack for it.
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Offline WMCoolmon

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I've been back in school since last week.

You suck.


I believe the phrase you're looking for is "tu es irrumator" :p
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Offline Mongoose

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I've been here since Wednesday, and I spent about 9 hours in a row yesterday helping freshmen get settled in the dorms.  (If I hear, "How do I get online?" one more time, I'll flip out :p)  All the upperclassmen moved back in today.  I'm what's known at our school as a Russell Fellow.  I work for the University of Delaware's Honors Program and live in the freshman honors housing.  I'm basically a mentor to the freshmen, and I also get to organize programs for them throughout the year.  This year should hopefully be a lot of fun. :)

 
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Sounds like an RA.

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Claim your self as a dependent next tax season. Although your dad might not like that.

It won't matter. I graduate this year...so long as everything goes to plan. :nervous:

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I just got to Stony Brook on Friday. I'm a freshman, so I'm confused as all hell right now.

You'll probably love your school, and I hope you do. You'll run into some problems, but you'll get accustomed to college life real fast. Get involved with some clubs and activites to meet people. If you're an introvert however, you're in for a real challenge, better see the school therapist.

The only other thing I have to say is don't hesitate to transfer if you're an unhappy customer. College is no different from a business, take it elsewhere if you hate it. Don't listen to your parents if they try to talk you into "giving it a chance." No, if you don't like it there, get the hell out immediately, else you wind up like me: stuck cause I have too many credits, finishing at a school I ****ing hate (and having to get a loan cause of my idiot parents)! Listen to your gut on that one, because no one should have to go through the **** I've been through.


It is ****ed up when some underclassmen get better housing then you.

Do any of you get a fall break, ie more time off than just Thanksgiving if you're in the US? We don't. That's why we start so late and have such a long winter break. It's stupid! It puts more stress on the students. We need a few days off during the semester, not just Thanksgiving.

 

Offline CP5670

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Well, I've been in college for a year now and think it sucks ass because of the amount of work I get and the administrative hassles at the beginning of each semester. I'm certainly an introvert, but I can't see how that would really matter since I would still have just as much coursework. It might just be my major, although at least I get long breaks. Who cares though; I'm ready to work hard to get out of this crap in two more years and have good looking classes and grades on my transcript for graduate school admissions.

Is there really that big of a difference between the better universities, as far as the classes go?

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Do any of you get a fall break, ie more time off than just Thanksgiving if you're in the US? We don't. That's why we start so late and have such a long winter break. It's stupid! It puts more stress on the students. We need a few days off during the semester, not just Thanksgiving.


That's also how it is here. I like it that way better actually; I've always preferred long work periods and long leisure periods. :D
« Last Edit: August 29, 2005, 04:15:55 pm by 296 »

 

Offline Ulala

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I'm scared.. I've got that gut feeling that college is going to eat me alive. :blah:
I am a revolutionary.

 

Offline Ford Prefect

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Yeah I'm scared too. I haven't worked, since, well... junior year of high school. I'm hoping I can practice some self-discipline.

As for the social aspect of it, I'm really just depressed right now because I have so many perfectly good friends back home, and it pisses me off that I have to make new ones here. Thank heavens for AIM.
"Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"  --Maurice Ravel

 

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Sounds like an RA.

As I had to keep telling freshmen on Saturday, not really.  We don't have any disciplinary powers, so the stupid crowd tends to not hate us as much as the RAs. :p

 

Offline CP5670

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RAs? As in research assistants? I thought the RAs don't come into much contact with undergraduate students at all and only really work with professors.

  

Offline Grey Wolf

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RA==Resident Assistant.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw