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denation (profile) wrote,
on 1-4-2006 at 3:16pm
Current mood: frustrated
Subject: why does it have to be so difficult?
Okay, here's my problem. Of course, I don't want to be stuck working at some dead end job for the rest of my life. I want to go to college, GRCC to be specific. I know what I want to do too: english and secondary education. But the problem is that I just don't understand how the whole system of college works (semesters, tuition hours, majors, minors, transfer, etc.), and why it costs so much fucking money. I mean, how can anyone in their right minds afford this shit. I looked at the only thing I saw that had a price, which was tuition hours, and it said that for a resident they'd have to pay 69.50/hour of "contact" with "an instructor or tutorial or laboratory equipment." So, if a class is two hours long (or however it works, I still don't know), I'd have to pay 139 dollars?!? What the hell is that? And I assume that I'd have to have a ton of classes throughout the semesters, or however it works (still don't know). And what if I have to pay for other basic classes, like math. Does that cost an arm and a leg too? I wish there was a person I could talk to or a website I could go to that would explain the basics to me, so I could start planning on going, that's IF I can find someway to afford it. It just can't be that expensive, if so many people are going to college. Yes, anyone who understands how college works must think I'm a fucking idiot, but I'm really flustrated right now. I've been all over the GRCC website, and I still don't know anything, and it makes me feel really stupid. Just really fucking stupid. I know I NEED to go to college. I want to go to college.

Anyone who knows anything about it, please explain it to me.
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whispers

01-04-06 5:59pm

Financial Aid is what gets people through college. That, and student loans.

Whenever you get time, go downtown GR, and go to the GRCC campus. Go talk to a counselor there, and go to the financial aid office. Both of those places will tell you everything you need to know. My brother did it, I'll do it eventually, and a ton of other people do it.

Plus, if you passed the MEAPS, then you get $1,250 dollars your first semester, then the other $1,250 your second. But seriously, go to the campus and talk to the counselors.

You don't sound stupid either. School is a plain in the checking account.

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denation

Re:, 01-04-06 9:58pm

I did pass the meap, but i didn't think that I could get the money seeing as how its been so long

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whispers

Re: Re:, 01-04-06 11:39pm

you can get that money like.. 5 years after you graduate.

just go talk to people at grcc. trust me.

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denation

Re: Re: Re:, 01-04-06 11:57pm

okay :-D

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whispers

Re: Re: Re: Re:, 01-04-06 11:59pm

Good boy

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cherylee

01-04-06 7:17pm

Yeah, financial aid and student loans. If there were no such thing, there would be no way I could pay $28,000 a year to go to Alma.

The people at the school will help you anyway they can. They will give you all the information about any possible way you can get money.

It'll all work out.

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allisonwonderland

01-04-06 8:30pm

go talk to anne

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allisonwonderland

01-04-06 8:32pm

i need you, get on yahoo :( no estoy bueno

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