ToiletCrusher
01-23-2009, 03:27 PM
So earlier today I said this:
way worse.
I lost all of my funding for the grant I am on.
Just learned I cannot take courses this spring, even though I have been for 2 weeks.
Seeing as how I will no longer be considered a "grad student" or doctoral candidate because I can't take courses, I may not be able to keep the job that has given me the stipend to live off and I may be responsible for all of this year's tuition.
I think I might be fucked. Later buddays, I have a lot of stuff to take care of.
The whole story is very long and likely boring. After I had a meeting at 6 today about it, I was told that I should apply for federal student loans to help correct the problem.
I haven't done this in almost a decade. It's not my fault that the floor dropped beneath me. It was the professors that I worked for. Maybe not even them, rather the fucking administrative assistant who works in the lab that I am employed through.
I entered into this with the knowledge that my tuition and student fees would be paid for. I was also expected to receive a stipend (my actual paycheck for working for them). I only ever got the stipend. It was nice. However, the other part ended up being an error on the administrative assistant's error for not having put the paperwork through properly.
That said, the administrative assistant (from here on known as 'seinfeld sans humor' or SSH) tried to pin it all on me. I've been a student for way too long to know when it is on me to make sure my fees and tuition are paid. SSH tried to tell me that it was my fault for not asking sooner. I never received a bill or any correspondence regarding the issue. How is that my fault. Either way, I was asked to take on a personal loan (federal) to make up for all the money that apparently I owe now.
From the fall of 2008, the total is $4900. To be a student for spring 2009 the total would be $3900. The total being $8800. This was supposed to be paid as a part of my signed contract as a graduate student and trying to earn my PhD.
Now that it got messed up, I think I am painted into a corner. No resolution came from my meeting except that I should try and take some of the monetary responsibility myself. I can't believe that after 3.5 years in this program and so close to the finish line I would be facing this.
If things can't be worked out by Wednesday, I may not have a job, may not be able to finish my degree (in time) and be stuck with close to 10 grand of debt.
What, oh what do I do??
way worse.
I lost all of my funding for the grant I am on.
Just learned I cannot take courses this spring, even though I have been for 2 weeks.
Seeing as how I will no longer be considered a "grad student" or doctoral candidate because I can't take courses, I may not be able to keep the job that has given me the stipend to live off and I may be responsible for all of this year's tuition.
I think I might be fucked. Later buddays, I have a lot of stuff to take care of.
The whole story is very long and likely boring. After I had a meeting at 6 today about it, I was told that I should apply for federal student loans to help correct the problem.
I haven't done this in almost a decade. It's not my fault that the floor dropped beneath me. It was the professors that I worked for. Maybe not even them, rather the fucking administrative assistant who works in the lab that I am employed through.
I entered into this with the knowledge that my tuition and student fees would be paid for. I was also expected to receive a stipend (my actual paycheck for working for them). I only ever got the stipend. It was nice. However, the other part ended up being an error on the administrative assistant's error for not having put the paperwork through properly.
That said, the administrative assistant (from here on known as 'seinfeld sans humor' or SSH) tried to pin it all on me. I've been a student for way too long to know when it is on me to make sure my fees and tuition are paid. SSH tried to tell me that it was my fault for not asking sooner. I never received a bill or any correspondence regarding the issue. How is that my fault. Either way, I was asked to take on a personal loan (federal) to make up for all the money that apparently I owe now.
From the fall of 2008, the total is $4900. To be a student for spring 2009 the total would be $3900. The total being $8800. This was supposed to be paid as a part of my signed contract as a graduate student and trying to earn my PhD.
Now that it got messed up, I think I am painted into a corner. No resolution came from my meeting except that I should try and take some of the monetary responsibility myself. I can't believe that after 3.5 years in this program and so close to the finish line I would be facing this.
If things can't be worked out by Wednesday, I may not have a job, may not be able to finish my degree (in time) and be stuck with close to 10 grand of debt.
What, oh what do I do??