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Jul. 30th, 2013 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI received a notice a little while ago about having a due balance for my summer classes. I figured it would go away when my financial aid came through. (You know where this is going already, don't you?)
It was still there today so I went over to ask about it. To make a long story short, my financial aid only covered a portion of the cost of the summer semester. Probably because I declined the unsubsidized loan. I must have misread the amounts involved, which is atypical for me. I thought everything was covered by the subsidized loan. Instead, I owe approximately as much as I'd have owned if I'd just taken 3 credits and paid out of pocket.
This is really frustrating. It means I took a class that I didn't *really* need and which took (and is still taking) a chunk of my time away this summer and I really didn't get any benefit out of it beyond giving myself slightly more latitude in my class selection in my remaining span at school. If I'd had parsed everything correctly before, I'd have just done field school, paid for it out of pocket, and felt much more relaxed over the summer and had much more time to work on other things and and spend on myself.
I was pretty annoyed when I figured this out today, but it passed. These things happen I guess, and now I just have to deal with it. The time is already gone.
The extra $800, on the other hand, is kind of painful, since I also still need to order all my school books. I'm going to use tonight to catch up on money, before I dig into the draft I'm working on for the class I didn't need to take....
It was still there today so I went over to ask about it. To make a long story short, my financial aid only covered a portion of the cost of the summer semester. Probably because I declined the unsubsidized loan. I must have misread the amounts involved, which is atypical for me. I thought everything was covered by the subsidized loan. Instead, I owe approximately as much as I'd have owned if I'd just taken 3 credits and paid out of pocket.
This is really frustrating. It means I took a class that I didn't *really* need and which took (and is still taking) a chunk of my time away this summer and I really didn't get any benefit out of it beyond giving myself slightly more latitude in my class selection in my remaining span at school. If I'd had parsed everything correctly before, I'd have just done field school, paid for it out of pocket, and felt much more relaxed over the summer and had much more time to work on other things and and spend on myself.
I was pretty annoyed when I figured this out today, but it passed. These things happen I guess, and now I just have to deal with it. The time is already gone.
The extra $800, on the other hand, is kind of painful, since I also still need to order all my school books. I'm going to use tonight to catch up on money, before I dig into the draft I'm working on for the class I didn't need to take....
