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College for Dummies...
Jan. 11th, 2016 07:47 pm...Emphasis on dummies.
I swear, though. You would think that the people involved with colleges would be intelligent. Academia, you know? Yeah, not so much.
First off, there was a bit of a kerfluffle with my financial aid. I didn't do anything wrong, yet they were threatening to drop my classes because of it. Grr. Turns out that the folks in the Financial Aid department were out of the office for nearly a month, due to the holidays. Yes, seriously. Because, it's not like they had any work to do during that time, no! Students planning for the upcoming semester couldn't possibly need help during that time! =P So, even though I'd sent in my concurrent enrollment form to show MSU that, with my classes I'm taking at WKCTC, I am in fact a full time student, they were claiming that I wasn't. I tell them about the form, that I'd sent it ages ago, and that I'd done this exact arrangement last semester with no problems. So they go look and say, oh, here's the form! So I'm okay after all. Ugh. So, basically, they scared me for nothing. If not for their idiotic schedule, none of this would have happened. So, I'll probably try to get this stuff in motion even earlier next semester, because God only knows how else they'll manage to fuck it up next time.
And today I had another such instance. This was less scary, more annoying, but still. See, I ordered my textbooks a little while ago. They came in the mail, and all was well. Until today. I get an email, saying that one of my classes was open in Blackboard, so I go and log in to check it out. I read the syllabus, and it mentions an online learning platform, which has a book inside it. I go look at it, and sure enough, there is the full textbook in ebook form, right there. The syllabus says something to the extent that the fee for this was included in the price of the class, and that if a student wished, there was a loose leaf paper copy of the book available for maybe $20. Sounds okay so far, right? Well, not so much when you consider that the school's bookstore told me that this class required a hard copy of the textbook, which I bought. Which was a fully bound, hardcover copy that cost more than $20. Yeah. I emailed the professor, just to be sure, and he said that yeah, the ebook was all that was required. So I'm going to try and return this copy that I bought and get my money back. Thankfully I hadn't taken the shrinkwrap off it yet. (And they had better not give me any crap about returning the damn thing. It's their fault in the first place!)
So, yeah. All this 'fun', before the semester even really starts! Ugh. =P
I swear, though. You would think that the people involved with colleges would be intelligent. Academia, you know? Yeah, not so much.
First off, there was a bit of a kerfluffle with my financial aid. I didn't do anything wrong, yet they were threatening to drop my classes because of it. Grr. Turns out that the folks in the Financial Aid department were out of the office for nearly a month, due to the holidays. Yes, seriously. Because, it's not like they had any work to do during that time, no! Students planning for the upcoming semester couldn't possibly need help during that time! =P So, even though I'd sent in my concurrent enrollment form to show MSU that, with my classes I'm taking at WKCTC, I am in fact a full time student, they were claiming that I wasn't. I tell them about the form, that I'd sent it ages ago, and that I'd done this exact arrangement last semester with no problems. So they go look and say, oh, here's the form! So I'm okay after all. Ugh. So, basically, they scared me for nothing. If not for their idiotic schedule, none of this would have happened. So, I'll probably try to get this stuff in motion even earlier next semester, because God only knows how else they'll manage to fuck it up next time.
And today I had another such instance. This was less scary, more annoying, but still. See, I ordered my textbooks a little while ago. They came in the mail, and all was well. Until today. I get an email, saying that one of my classes was open in Blackboard, so I go and log in to check it out. I read the syllabus, and it mentions an online learning platform, which has a book inside it. I go look at it, and sure enough, there is the full textbook in ebook form, right there. The syllabus says something to the extent that the fee for this was included in the price of the class, and that if a student wished, there was a loose leaf paper copy of the book available for maybe $20. Sounds okay so far, right? Well, not so much when you consider that the school's bookstore told me that this class required a hard copy of the textbook, which I bought. Which was a fully bound, hardcover copy that cost more than $20. Yeah. I emailed the professor, just to be sure, and he said that yeah, the ebook was all that was required. So I'm going to try and return this copy that I bought and get my money back. Thankfully I hadn't taken the shrinkwrap off it yet. (And they had better not give me any crap about returning the damn thing. It's their fault in the first place!)
So, yeah. All this 'fun', before the semester even really starts! Ugh. =P
