*headdesk party*

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

I’m getting so…ARG with collage and it hasn’t even started yet! When I first enrolled I had 15 weeks to get a copy of my GED in to prove I am out of high school. It takes me a few days to find it, but I get it faxed and am happy. I start in on my Financial Aid application.

It took me three weeks to complete an application that should have taken me an hour. It wasn’t the application itself that was the problem (I had that done while watching an episode of Bones), but it was the bloody hoops the collage had me jumping through on their site…and the fact every other page of their FA stuff was down.

Then they wouldn’t let me past the ’sign up for a loan’ page, because there was NO BLOODY option for those of us who can’t get/afford/want loans. So I play email tag with them about that, finally get past it and get it sent in.

Then, (a week or so ago), I realized that the documents department never updated my records with my GED. Insert some frantic panicking at my admissions councilor, then frantic scanning and emailing (well, re-sizing and then emailing) my GED.

A week goes by from that, and I find out my FA is DENIED. Why? Because they need A. Proof of my name, and B. I NEVER SIGNED A PROMISARY NOTE FOR ‘MY LOAN’. WTF?!?! I have a sudden moment of phone bravery and call the FA office the moment they open, trying to figure out with the hell is going on.

So, I fax them a copy of my driver’s license and once more try to explain I DON’T want loans. Woman on the other end of the phone seems to have a brain so all is good.

Two weeks later, they FINALLY get my GED listed and in my file, and my FA is in limbo somewhere, waiting for another review (this is after I went off on yet another FA office worker who dared tell me I hadn’t done anything they needed me to do).

Can school just start already so I can start drowning in actual work rather then red tape?