I'm fucked with financial aid and i'm old and I'm mad/sad

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I'm a "non-traditional" student (old fart) and I had some outstanding student loans which i attempted to pay back so as i could qualify for more loans, and I missed one payment ( I moved, they did not register the change of address I registered with them)and all of the financial aid I had for the University I was going to was negated. I now can't go to school this semester (just withdrew today) but probably can't go next semester either, unless I work my ass off and borrow money and pay the feds so i can borrow some more money.
I am sad, and mad and hurt and think it is entirely unfair. I am a 4.0 student with reccomendations for my academic career - my underfuckinggrad!- from every Prof. I have had. I'm mad, and I want you to be pissed off too.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

BOO BANKS! (or student loan offices)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You got to love a system that really encourages and supports the pursuit of education, knowledge, and skills.

― supercub, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I feel sorry for myself for a little bit longer? The success I have had in the world has been :friendships, writing, and a general compassion towards others not like us. I have a gift when it comes to the unliked masses. Mentally ill people and differntly abled people.Perhaps I see something of myself there.
I feel free, in a sense, and yet burdened.
I want to be in school, and am alarmed and hating the fact that I can't access school. It's raining - the weather is a metaphor for my feelings - or maybe it's the other way around. Segue into a Journey song - or some commiseration.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no :(

Have you spoken to your university? About hardship funds or something? There must be a way!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah there has to be a way.>!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

but you withdrew so i guess there's not, for the time being.. i'm sorry about this!

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

There is/was no way. I'm lucky that I withdrew in person, and made sure i was not held financially responsible for the two weeks that i DID attend classes.
My advisor has been amazing, and i have drawn on all the resources available. But now i am unencumbered by those relationships - and a bit lost, since "student" is my favorite identity.
I expected, through financial aid, to have some money to live on and , through work study, to have another source of income.
I am truly fucked. i must go get eighteen million jobs and pay back the fucking loan.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 28 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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