School....YARGH!

Really, really...this is just getting FRUSTRATING! I'm serious!

So...I'm trying to get everything together for school. It starts in less than a month. I was denied Financial Aid and I do plan on appealing that decision.

I filled out an application for a loan from JJC. I was told at the time that I had to fill out this loan counseling thing online. I fill it out, print out the page like I'm supposed to and call JJC to find out if I can fax it in. I'm told at that time that I don't need to submit it. They have the record online and are trying to decrease the amount of paper in the office. Cool. Well, they can get my record then. I'm done. :D

I go to Prairie State to fill out for the Chargeback. That basically allows me to pay in district rates even tho I don't live in district. I bring my acceptance letter and my class schedule with me. I think I just pick up the paper, badda bing, badda bang, badda boom right? Wrong.

I have to sit and wait for a counselor. Why? "We need to be sure you have all the necessary pre-reqs accomplished." Um, I have my class schedule, which starts August 25. I think I have all my classes. But I sit and wait. I get called, walk with the counselor to her office, tell her why I'm here only to get back up and head back to the front. Where she grabs a piece of paper. I again get the schpeel about pre-reqs to which I AGAIN explain and show my class schedule. They fill out the paperwork and tell me it will take approximately 2 weeks. Fine. That was Tuesday the 15th.

On Wednesday the 23rd, I get a voicemail. It's Prairie State, about the chargeback. I've only taken one math according to the records and may need other pre-reqs. Wednesday was a shitty day at work, and this just pushed me over the edge. I leave a message, and MAY have had a little attitude. But I'm just getting frustrated. I explain, ONCE AGAIN, in the voicemail that I AM ENROLLED AT JJC!!!! CLASSES START AUGUST 25TH!!! If I NEEDED additional classes, JJC would have TOLD me, don'tcha think? I explain this in the message, and end it asking if we could please expedite this process as I am getting frustrated.
Thursday morning, I call the office. The woman tells me, not too happily, that she got my message and sent my letter out. I sweetly thank her and hang up.

Saturday the 26th, I pick Loren up to head to the city. I also pick up my mail, in which is a letter from JJC. I open it, and it's from the Financial Aid dept. They have not received my Loan Counseling Completion and cannot continue to process my application without it.

Now, NOW I'm just getting REALLY pissed off! I wish I could work in one of these departments at these schools. Apparently all you need is to stuff your head up your ass and have a lack of communication. I could TOTALLY do that. And of course, it's Saturday. I can't do shit about it. So I call the office today and of course, have to leave a message because these people NEVER are available (altho I wonder what the fuck they're doing because no one knows what the other is up to and I question if they work?). I explain what I was told and tell the machine or whatever that I'm just getting very frustrated by mixed signals. Waiting, of course, for a response.

It's just aggravating. Really. I didn't think it was going to be this fucking difficult to get into school. Come on!

So we'll see what happens next. I have the paper somewhere. I know I saved it...JUST IN CASE OF A SITUATION LIKE THIS....but where it is...good question.

Anyhow. I gotta jump in the tub. Let's see how this works out. God, I hope this just resolves itself soon. Sigh.