You are the most useless bureaucracy ever created and I want to firebomb your offices. The fact that I will spend the next 20 years paying you back for what is arguably the most inefficient government department EVER created INFURIATES ME.
I’m going to be paying you prime plus 2.5% for service that has included: at least 10 lost documents, 2 semesters of late registration due to unpaid tuition, one summer semester I had to sell my motorcycle to pay for because your fucking loan schedule form 87-B5.15 v4 was filled out wrong and you wouldn’t honor it as it was 3 DAYS PAST the “last date negociable” (what, do these forms spoil? WTF), and last but not least the 100 or so dollars my bank charged me because YOU OVERDREW MY ACCOUNT because you think I owe you money EVEN THOUGH I’M STILL IN SCHOOL but you’ve probably lost THAT confirmation of enrollment too.
If I didn’t know any better I would swear the government is using you in a conspiracy to FRUSTRATE POOR PEOPLE to the point where they would rather tell you to fuck yourself and get a dead end job for the rest of their lives, while trust-fund babies get to live hassle free.
Fuck, I swear it’s easier to apply for fucking welfare than it is to get money to go to school with. Maybe I’ll follow my white-trash roots and get put in jail. I hear they get easier access to education than I do!
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2007.
I hear ya, honey! I’ve never been fucked-over so much in my life as I have been with the Student Loans Dept. This has been ongoing for the last 10 YEARS! The latest fiasco for me was, instead of mailing Student Loans Dept. a cheque every month, they told me to go pay it through the Royal Bank (another fine establishment, don’t get me started!!)……well, after I’d gone to the bank to pay my student loan for 5 months, the Student Loans Dept. called me up, saying that they weren’t getting their money from the Royal Bank, so they assumed I wasn’t making the payments!!! So the Student LOans Dept. wanted me to send them MORE money!Needless to say, I told them to go fuck themselves.
Not everyone that goes to University has trust fund or a student loan. I am the only one in my family with a University education and I had to work my ass to get through school, and came out with little or no debt this was possible by taking a 4 year degree over 5 years and working anywhere from 20-35 hours a week (varried from week to week). I think taking the degree over an extra year will, although I missed a year of working “Full-time”, be better off by not having to pay a loan over the next 10 years. If you have a problem with the loan department then get a job and reduce your course load. Bank tellers make “Okay” money, for a student, and some have long hours where it is feasible to do that job, or another job such as retail, bars, etc, while going to school. good luck.
Working 20-30 hours a week? You must not have taking a Biology degree. With up to four labs a week, plus other usual biology class workload, I had absolutely no time for work. I really wanted to work, but if I wanted to actually make the money count for something and do *well* at school, I couldn’t afford the time away from my studies to earn a nfew buck.Oh well. I guess it’s payments for me!
p.s. Ugh, sorry for the bad spelling, my hands are cold! 😉
Informant, I dunno when you went to school but tuition in the 90s was easily half the cost it is now in Nova Scotia.Considering my tuition as an arts student is about 3000 a semester, plus 500 dollars a month in rent, my yearly cost of school is 12 grand (fall/winter semesters). If I work 40 hours weeks at the kind of job available to students (i.e. no experience and minimum wage) I make 800 dollars a month after tax. Maybe. In the summer, the only time I CAN work full time, if I want to do ANYTHING outside of school, work and eat/sleep, I have an astounding 100 dollars a month to spend on that. After a case of beer, some McWendys and a movie, I have no more money to spend for that month. And that doesn’t even include the 700 dollars a 3-week summer course costs.During the fall/winter semesters I easily have an average of 3-4 hours of class a day if you factor in labs (yep we have them) and tutorials. I have to work 20 hours a week or less, or I can’t handle school. While I think working to pay for your own schooling adds A LOT of self discipline (that students who have everything paid for tend to lack), I think it is absolutely ridiculous to think one should have to work to survive while being a full time student. Today it can’t be done. If you can work 3 jobs and go to school full time, you’re a genius and should have a full scholarship anyway. So, student loans exist to us non-genius 3.0GPA (and sometimes less) types.They’ve completely fucked with me too and I’m sick of it. I think of them as sharks in bloody water. They know you need the money. And they’re the only ones that will give it to you. For a price.If they’re sharks now I don’t want to know what they’ll be like when their computer tells them that I’m done school and owe them money.
I’m in my first year of university and I know how you feel. I worked 70 hours a week this summer (3 jobs…don’t ask how I did it). It was horrible. I also got a student loan and I’m dreading having to apply for one again next year, and year after, and the year after, etc, etc. My friend goes to school in Newfoundland, because of fixed tuition rates, she pays approximately $4,000 for tuition and residencen (together!!!!). How about….Grants not loans? Because I’m all for that.
Its too bad that a person can’t work all summer to pay for their school year. Even though it was cheaper we still had to rely on student loans if we were living in Halifax away from home for the entirety of the degree program instead of going home to mom and dad to live and work for 4 months. From my 1987-88 SMU Academic Calendar: Tuition Fees Course Load, more than 3 courses: $1,525/year.Glad I got it when I did…
I couldn’t agree more! Everyone that works there is completely incompetent. Not only have I experienced all of the same problems, but anytime I had to deal with anyone that worked there they were extremely rude. Example- I am studying abroad next semester and you need to know the distance between your house and the university. I called to ask what I should do, due to the huge difference between the two terms, and the lady said, and I quote, “You, may not have heard of it, but there’s this new tool called MapQuest that you can use to find the distance between two points.” Then she hung up. ARgh!Informant, you’re an idiot. If I actually want to focus on school, be a fulltime student, and do well then I am not going to be able to work 20-35 hours a week. Sure I could reduce my course load, but not everyone wants to spend a minimum of 5 years in university. If I don’t live at home or receive any other assistance, how can I expect to pay for rent, groceries, necessities, and incidentals, and still pay tuition?