University Rant - Page 2

DeltAlum · #16 07-21-2003, 11:07 PM

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Originally posted by Tom Earp
DeltaAlum, I take umbridge to that statement!

Dont bad mouth plants!

Point well taken. Didn't mean to insult the plants by comparing them to university hourly employees.

My mistake.

Just today we got a piece of mail from the Oklahoma University Student Aid office asking us to pick which of a number of banks we have credit for a student loan with.

Our son is on a full academic ride with no loans.

They screwed up his offer, and included loans, last year and sent the same letter.

We called the National Scholars office and they just (imagine eyes rolling over the phone) said don't worry about it, they always mess it up. They said it would be OK, and it was.

adpishan · #17 07-23-2003, 04:22 PM

I was just reading in a thread and someone mentioned the security at their univ. It hit me, the thing I hate most about my school. We have these post with a blue light on top. (yes think K-mart blue light special) And on the post is a box, kinda like the call boxes on the side of the freeways. There is a big button that you push that alarms the campus police and turns on the blue light. They are for emergencies or if you feel threatened (someone following you, etc.). Well during our campus tour, they mention that if you push the button, there is a 1-3 minute response time. But instead of impressing me, I thought, "What are yousuppost to do for those 1-3 minutes. Run around the pole?" They also said that if you push those and walk away (for a prank) then you get fined like $500

juniorgrrl · #18 07-24-2003, 12:34 PM

I transferred from Tulane to LSU after my first semester. Tulane apparently told everyone that I quit school all together. But they waited a year or so.

The summer after my first year, I couldn't get a credit card because my student loans were coming due, because, well, I guess I was out of school. Then the second semester of my soph year, my TOPS was denied because I hadn't been in school. Never mind that I'd had a 3.9 the semester before with 18 hours.

Tulane has the worst financial aid office. MUCH worse than LSU's

LSU law school is pissing me off right now - they haven't made scholarship decisions for the next year - hello! I'd like to know if my tuition waiver has been renewed!

GeekyPenguin · #19 07-25-2003, 06:09 PM

So I transferred schools this summer.

My last school has called me asking why I wasn't registered yet. Take a wild guess, dumbbutts.

They also keep sending me letters to register, but those are all piled up at the sorority house, and I'll retreive them when I'm good and ready to.

New school, so far, has made these genius mistakes:

billing me for room and board after not letting me live in the dorms
billing me for medical when I checked the box that I didn't want their medical plan
losing my AP credits (and 45 of them at that, not one class)
losing my transcripts from both colleges I've attended
not showing a grant on my financial aid award
asking me why I wasn't living in my sorority house (um, there's no chapter there anymore)
sending me a letter about how to look for an apartment during my sophomore year (it's my junior year, and I already got one thanks )

OrigamiTulip · #20 07-25-2003, 06:58 PM

At the end of this past Spring semester, I got a letter from the financial aid office informing me that my financial aid had been terminated because I had exceeded my maximum number of semesters of aid, and earned a semester GPA below 2.0. Ummmm, hello?!?!?

1. I haven't had financial aid at all since Spring 2000.
2. I gradauted in December 2001, and have been paying back my financial aid ever since then.
2. I earned a 3.5 that semester, which is way above a 2.0.

Looks like someone wasn't paying attention when they sent me that letter.

Tom Earp · #21 07-25-2003, 10:35 PM

Now, Children, one must remeber, these people are hired to work 5 days a week , 8 hrs a day and dont give a S**T! It is a job. They have NO CLUE what they do!

They do not check anything and dont want to upset the cart and lose a job!

Sound like GOVT BEAURO CRAP???!

SigkapAlumWSU · #22 07-25-2003, 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by adpishan
I was just reading in a thread and someone mentioned the security at their univ. It hit me, the thing I hate most about my school. We have these post with a blue light on top. (yes think K-mart blue light special) And on the post is a box, kinda like the call boxes on the side of the freeways. There is a big button that you push that alarms the campus police and turns on the blue light. They are for emergencies or if you feel threatened (someone following you, etc.). Well during our campus tour, they mention that if you push the button, there is a 1-3 minute response time. But instead of impressing me, I thought, "What are yousuppost to do for those 1-3 minutes. Run around the pole?" They also said that if you push those and walk away (for a prank) then you get fined like $500

We have these at my school too and I've always wondered that excat same thing. Also, they all seem to be in the most dimly lit walking areas on campus. Personally, if I was walking home at night, I'd go the most brightly lit way, not the path that is nothing but darkness. I'm not going to take a chance with my safety just so I can be near a damn blue light!

It also seems that every year, one of the platforms of the canidates for student pres is to fix the lighting problems on campus. And every year, the winning canidate takes a walk around the dark campus, with a gaggle of senators, and tells everyone it isn't that bad, and they will fix the problem spots. Kepp in mind, since I have been going to WSU, we've never had a female president. Of course you feel comfortable! We've also never had the lighting fixed (well, as much as anyone I know would like to see it improved that is!)

Buttonz · #23 07-25-2003, 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by CatStarESP4
When I was in college, the worst part was the beginning of each semester. Long lines in the bookstore (AAAARRRRGGGHH), financial aid, bursar's, registrar, etc. I know that we all have experienced this, but I just wanted to rant about the dread start of the new semester!

I HATE walking into my schools bookstore, registrar;s, bursar's etc the first month of school! Vaildating my ID is the worse! Last semster I waited an hour and a half...and the building is HOT and there is no cell phone service in it!!

aurora_borealis · #24 07-26-2003, 12:01 AM

My former University had the infamous "Banner System" this system is the tool of the Devil make no mistake. It:

Changed my birthdate and made it impossible to register

Changed my address

Changed my GENDER

Changed my major

Disenrolled me from all my classes

Did not record my payments and garnished my paycheck a year later

Did not properly compute my GPA

Refused to enroll me in a class as they did not believe the signature on the add form was that of the professor

there is more but that is enough for now, housing sucked the worst EVER.

FAUNikki · #25 07-27-2003, 04:11 PM

I am stuck paying for my own tuition because of FAFSA or FAU I am not sure who. I filled out a FAFSA during February of my Senior year of HS. I mailed it away nicely.
I go to school in Florida and I had been eligible for the Florida Bright Future's Scholarship. It would cover 75% of my tuition. All I had to do was send in my FAFSA.
By June I hadn't received anything about financial aid. I called FAU and they said that they had no record of me sending financial aid info. SO I called FAFSA, they had a record of receiving it and processing it. So somewhere between FAFSA & FAU, it was lost. By the time i filled out a new one and turned it in, it was July. FAU got back to me in late July after processing it. Then I was sent a form that said "Funds for the current school year have been exhausted." I called financial aid at my school and they told me there was nothing I could do. So my dad said it was alright and he would pay for the year. FAU told me to re-apply for the following year. So I did, and I received a letter in the mail from the state saying that, Florida Bright Futures can only be issued to incoming freshman.
FAU said that they would give me $800 grant, but I still had to pay for the rest. OS now this coming year, I am only getting a $737 grant. It sucks so bad! I could have been paying so little and because stupid people cant do their jobs I have to pay out!!

Shine · #26 07-27-2003, 04:35 PM

Parking services Nazis.

And those desk assistant people that work the desks in the dorms and never know what the **** is going on.

TigerLilly · #27 07-28-2003, 12:05 AM

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Originally posted by Shine
And those desk assistant people that work the desks in the dorms and never know what the fuck is going on.

Haha -- I was one of those desk assistant people, I worked night desk for the past year. I was one of the laid-back ones -- everyone loved the ones like that b/c we didn't give a shit about checking people in or anything. Whereas sometimes they were just terrible. This one time I was running into the dorm because I was about to be sick, and the desk worker tried to stop me for ID. I flashed it and ran, and he CHASED me all the way up to the girl's bathroom on the 2nd floor. I almost wish I had puked on him for his troubles.
I'm currently fighting with the Residence Life people to get my $50 housing deposit back -- they charged me that $50 to "clean the floor" after I moved out of my room. Uh, okay...I vacuumed that floor myself and it was cleaner when I moved out than it had been when I moved in. And does it really take $50 to clean a vinyl floor, anyway?

GeekyPenguin · #28 08-07-2003, 03:58 PM

Here comes a big fat #@$@#$ about the UWP Alumni Office.

I want to plant a memorial tree for GPBoy - I know they do this, I've seen them all over campus, including 2 in front of the dorm he lived in. Our CA (who is the chancellor's wife) told me to email the Alumni Office about this. So I send them an email, and not only do they tell me they have never heard of memorial trees

but that they didn't know he died. The whole $@%#@# school got an email - did they not read it?

So BOO on them, so glad I transferred.

mu_agd · #29 08-07-2003, 04:12 PM

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Originally posted by TigerLilly
I'm currently fighting with the Residence Life people to get my $50 housing deposit back -- they charged me that $50 to "clean the floor" after I moved out of my room. Uh, okay...I vacuumed that floor myself and it was cleaner when I moved out than it had been when I moved in. And does it really take $50 to clean a vinyl floor, anyway?

I had to fight with the apartment complex that i lived in for my junior and senior year. they didn't want to give me back half of my deposit because they said it needed to be used to fumigate my apartment twice to get rid of the fleas that my cats left. uumm yeah, i'm incredibly allergic to cats and can't be in the same room/apt as them or i just want to die. they didn't believe us when both myself and my father told them that. when we finally said we'd have my doctor right them a letter stating that fact they sent us the other half of my deposit.

FeeFee · #30 08-07-2003, 05:34 PM

I've long come to the conclusion that as far as universities/colleges are concerned, Office A does not know what Offices B, C, and D are doing, and vice versa. Just this afternoon, I had to speak with my advisor in order to sign up for Fall classes. She then tells me to take the form over to the Registrar's office. Guess what?? The Registrar's office was already closed by the time I got there. Now I have to wait until tomorrow to take the form to the office. How come my advisor couldn't give me this tidbit of information????