I had a talk with Roane State, we mentioned old times, drank some beer, got in a fist fight, cried, spent the night in jail, and finally agreed to live and let live. The AT charm wins again.
In other words, that VP of Financial Aid winked and gave me the all clear.
Thanks for all your support, you all get to watch me fail in real time!
No, seriously, I’m gonna do well. GAC will hurt me if I don’t…
As a return to the post previously (and to put the words “go to hell” on the Rocky Top Brigade board), a quick update on my ever exciting quest for higher education.
After the setback of yesterday eve, I endeavoured to send a quick “pleeeease, pleeeease lemme have some financial aid” letter to the Veep of Financial Aid, but as of the noon deadline today had not heard anything. I drove down to Roane State to try a little face to face charm, of which I am all up ons.
Unfortunately, they weren’t having it. Although the admissions girl was into my “damn, wasn’t I dumb? now lemme have some aid” jive, the financial aid battleaxe had none of it. However, she did let slip that it isn’t a Regents thing, or federal, or state of Tennessee thing that folks on financial aid suspension have no recourse but to whore themselves out for school mone, but rather a unique quirk to Roane State.
Thats right folks. Withdraw from classes at Roane State when you’re getting financial aid, EVEN IF THE GOVERNMENT GETS ITS MONEY BACK, you’re cut off for 5 hours, or about 700 bucks. Now, I’m not going to be the one to call that embezzlement (because it technically isn’t), but I’ll sign up to say that its a dickheaded thing to do.
Lucky for the kid, its not the only game in town! No, with one day left to enroll, thanks to the impeccable timing of Roane States F.U. department, I’m off to Pellissippi, the soon to be alma mater of my lovely wife. Its a shame, because Roane State, well, I can look out my window and see it, but who said the path to higher learning was easy?
Seriously, Google it. Tell me, because I want to kick them square in the balls.
And I’ll tell you one other thing, readers. If I do get into this, and I do start school again, this is going to totally kick off a new line of bitching on Atomictumor.com, which is the AT thinks that the entire college system is screwed up and in serious need of an asswhooping. If I’m paying (well, technically, if all works well the federal .gov is paying) for college then by DAMN I expect to graduate. If a teacher has an entire class fail, his ass needs to be FIRED for not doing his damn job. If I’m running an IT department, and my computers all explode, I’m not going to get away by saying that “well, they were dells, see”. Nope, it’d be my ASS.
So, there you go. In summation:
1) Roane State hates the poor.
2) I’m a last minute person
2) Roane State sucks donkey balls.
3) Yes, those were both twos.
4) Who the hell was it that said that higher education was easy?
Is Pat freakin Buchanan getting press again. Its bad enough that the far right dingbats are trying to resurrect Newt Gingrich, but if they pull Buchanan back out into the spotlight it’ll guarantee that it’ll be another 10 years before the far right gets pushed back into whatever closet it was they spent the ’90s in.
Seriously, these reactionary facisty people pushing for this stuff, well, its disappointing.
Hell, Buchanan HAD to have sold his soul to get out of the black hole that Nixon brought his staff down with in ‘74. Doesn’t that count for anything with you weirdos? Don’t you see what far right, uncompromising, unforgiving rhetoric gets you?
Whatever.
The same people responsible for the last 6 years of happy fun land evidently haven’t considered the job done. Dumbasses.