I'm going back to college this year (I haven't gone since 05) and I'm both excited and nervous.
The college I'm going to is in NYC, it is called York, it is part of CUNY (The city university of New York). It is basically the best college you can go to without going to community college. But thanks to my overall lack of a HS education I really can't b!#$% too hard. I am glad they've taken me.
Since it is a local school, there really isn't the sort of campus life you'd traditionally associate with college.
Anyway I don't have the money to pay for it upfront like I did last time. So this time I have to get a student loan (since I don't qualify for financial aid).
What a pain in the a$$ this process has been. Twice I've gone all the way to my school (It's not exactly nearby) just to stand in a ridiculously slow moving line, to be told I could do everything at home, or because (at the time) I lacked some government pin, they couldn't do anything for me. Apparently thanks to computers they don't bother keeping paper forms around anymore.
So why is there still a f!#$%^& financial aid office!?! Why not just have an atm machine with a sign on it that reads, please go home and do all this on computer (if you can suckers) then come back to withdraw funds (if you qualify of course).
Also if you weren't paid up by the 16th (me) your registration was canceled. This wasn't so bad since my schedule was abominable. So I thought OK I'll go the 17th to re-select my classes and hopefully get a better schedule, I have to go in to visit the financial aid office anyway. Well done, good idea, me, way to kill two birds. Wrong, b!#$%. Go all the way to Jamaica (45 minute bus ride) to wait in line to find out FA is useless and then go to the academic advisement office to find out that today when it would be both logical and convenient for them to be open, they are closed.
I hope next week brings better results, and I hope by the time classes start, I am actually paid up. I need to get a job.
But I can't get a job until I know my schedule, and know that it is reasonably consistent. Not one quarter of my classes on Wednesday afternoon and the others scattered at different times, on different days.