Yeah this is a late post. Don’t hate me. It’s been a very hectic week. Since we already turned in our RAP's I figured I would write about the second option for this blog post which is write whatever you feel about.
So, we attend the greatest university ever established. Fact. I love this place and most everything about it. What could I possibly not like about this wonderful place you ask? Well, it all began the day before I was supposed to schedule my classes for next fall quarter. I received an email from the Bursars office stating that I couldn’t schedule any classes until I paid my outstanding balance. So I checked what I owed then just about fainted.…..$2841.00. I had no idea where this number came from. So instead of heading to math lecture, I ran to the financial aid office to see where this random amount came from. They tell me it’s a housing fund and that I have to talk to them. So I hike about 15 minutes to Morril Tower to see what’s up. They tell me it’s a loan issue and that I need to talk to Financial Aid. So I again make the journey over there and tell them what housing said to me. They then told me that I have to talk to the loan company directly. So I call them from the lobby. I’ll give you readers one guess as to who they told me to talk to. That’d be the Financial Aid Office.
At this point. I wanted to shoot someone. As bad as that sounds that is what it was coming too. Soooo what would any normal college student do in this situation. Call their mothers. And that’s exactly what I did. My mother is a great negotiator and managed to somehow get the Big Three to talk to each other and figure out this situation. After about an hour of panicking, they call me to tell that……there was an decimal place error and I owed $28.41 from some random housing toilet paper fee or something. After that, I paid it, scheduled for my 20 credit hours next fall and went home. Furious after missing 3 classes. Thank you OSU!
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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Oh my goodness...that's a pretty ridiculously HUGE error on the part of OSU. How frustrating. I do think your (quite entertaining) story gets at one of the problems with being at huge university like OSU. It's frighteningly easy to just get lost in the bureaucracy of tasks. You could easily lose a whole day trying to settle your library fines! That said, like you, I love OSU. But, yes, there are times when it makes you want to punch someone. Thank goodness we have mothers to help us work it all out! :)
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