I had a scare last week when taking care of things for school. It came when my school sent me a postcard telling me I needed to speak with a financial aid adviser about about stuff and and became very quickly concerned with the status of my loans. Well the problem came when I was told by the adviser that my loan wasn’t accepted by the school. What she should have said was “as a Stafford or Perkins loan”.
You see, schools set up Stafford and Perkins loans to hand out to students to compound with the expected family contribution and Federal Pell grants to give to students who need that extra little bit of cash. The cash filters through the school into the hands of students after tuition and book fees are paid out. If this were my loan, I wouldn’t have been able to get the money because of my previous GPA when I was enrolled before. It wasn’t all that great. So I relented and was ready to go apeshit, it meant I wouldn’t be able to pay for school without anything but cash in pocket until my grades went up.
This is where someone should have stopped and said: “WAIT!” because I didn’t sign up for those. I signed up for a private loan, a loan that is distributed based on your credit rating and whether or not you’re even enrolled. They don’t care about grades, only money. Oddly enough, works out even better for me. Sorting this all out has been one fucking huge affair that I’d rather not relive.
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If you’ll look around the site, you’ll notice that all of the redesigns are done. I can finally say that I’ve got a site that I’m really proud of. The problem part now is filling the areas that need a little artwork with some fucking artwork. I’ve got a bunch of scripts ready for no/fly/zone, and I’ve been working on some stories for Grey Matter. Comic goodness will be up on the site shortly.
We’ll talk more later, kids.
argo. (mtc)
