financial aid and rants and raves

This entry was a long time coming. I tried to update the blog on Sunday, but the school lost power and everyone lost all their data. I was lucky; I only lost my entry. Others lost huge amounts of work and couldn't even retrieve their disks. If I had been working on my thesis at the time I might have been suicidal. Monday was a snow day, although I feel the college actually pulled the trigger a little early. I'm not complaining, just making an observation. I bopped around the county running errands and did a HUGE pile of laundry. I spent 25 bucks on washing machines and I still have 3 large garbage bags of clothes to go. I'm terrible at keeping up with stuff like that, and I needed to buy outfits for work. I'm pathetic. Anyway, I was working on a folder today and the mother's hand written notes made me remember our conversation a few months ago. She insisted that because her son no longer received SSI for his disabled father, it did not need to be counted. WRONG.... *sigh* It did, and I entered in the corrections. The student still got aid, but the 8700 in benefits definitely took a chunk of money away. There is no specific lesson but there is a moral: Don't give your financial aid counselor a migrane; we get testy.