[KillarneyRose]

I don't have a "professor" story to share so I will just tell you about an "a$$hole administrator" story instead!

My last semester of college, my roommate was a smoker and she decided to disable the smoke detector in our room. Not the smartest move but I didn't mind that she did it. Well, we forgot to put it together again before we moved out so we were charged $54.75 for the University to have their highly trained staff of smoke detector installers take care of it.

I wrote a check for $27.37 and turned it into the Office of Residence Life thinking that was that, but oh how wrong I was! I moved to New York to start my new job thinking everything was squared with my school account. A few weeks after graduation, my mom started getting phone calls from Pitt for me demanding their one cent that they said I owed them. After the THIRD phone call, I started to get angry and called them and got into it with some lady who worked in the office there who told me my diploma would be withheld if I didn't pay this one cent. I was so mad that I told them what they could do with my diploma but that didn't stop the phone calls and then the letters threatening to block release of my transcript until I paid the one cent! Finally, I got a registered letter from the school telling me that I was about to be reported to a collection agency if I didn't pay up!!!! At that point, I was so upset but I didn't want to risk my credit rating so I wrote out a check for one cent and FedEx'd it to my dear old alma mater.

And THAT, boys and girls, is the last cent the University of Pittsburgh will EVER receive from me. When I make a donation, it goes straight to Delta Zeta.