Not in the clear yet

So I'm enrolled and 2 credit hours under full time I did this thinking that the tuition award I would get would for once cover all my course fees. Well this may not be the case, I'm showing another 550 in fees. Now I went through and did the math and it shouldn't be this much but then again I wish these fees were displayed from the get go. Now I just want to get my w-2s so I can file my taxes and file for next years aid. I guess I'll be stopping by the aid office tomorrow and having a talk to figure this all out. Now I get to fill out grant apps to see if I can get some money to help pay for this junk.

Always remember to keep your shoulders relaxed.

Back to school?

Yeah that may be the case the situation surrounding my return doesn't sit well with me but I have little other option at this point. I am however ok that I have another 2 projects loaded on Behance(they are actually loaded in one). Hopefully I will be finished with enrollment in the morning.

And the snowman cometh

So my last hope for school this semester is me filling out more applications for loans. I won't be able to do this until tomorrow night and that really blows. It's not that classes start on friday no we are getting a winter storm and the peak will be when I need to be travelling to do the applications. I guess it could be worse I could have no hope and just cry at home.

On a brighter note I have added yet more work to Behance, the link hase been posted so many time I will forgo linking in this post. But I will instead add it to the links on the side of the blog. It is really shaping up as a center of all my work. What really sucks is the amount of work I had lost due to computer failure. But I have a shit ton more to add including my screen printing and print making work as well as 2 more books and the work I did for MADP. Yeah they get a link, so I'll be posting on here a lot more soon. Because of all this financial madness I haven't gotten around to getting sketches for the book covers up yet but I think I'll have a chance this week end at least.

PS: I wish blogger would remember how I want my copy formated.

The status of my studies

So this whole fiasco with school has gotten to the Chancellor's office now and I'm eagerly awaiting update on how they can help. So here is what happened so far:

This summer took classes received a notification from financial aid that I needed to sign a document and when I went in I found out that the notice was 2 weeks after the deadline. No prior notifications had been sent to me or brought to my attention that I would need to sign other documents for summer classes. And at my previous schools there was never a need to sign additional documents to allow for the release of summer financial aid.

Oct rolls around and my financial aid award for the fall was cut and I there for had to get an endowment loan to pay for these classes. I have in the mean time tried to find a way to get those pesky summer classes paid for through hundreds of applications for any kind of grant. I was only notified later that the links I had followed were bogus and they were sites getting e-mails for spam.

After much fighting to speak to someone in the financial aid office past the front desk a friend of mine hooked me up with a friend of his who is beyond the fron desk. After much talking my only option would be a private student loan. I read through my options and applied for one and was rejected and I applied for a second and was rejected. Both suggested I get a Co-Signer. When you apply for a loan and you get rejected they can't seem to tell you what happened over the phone or through e-mail you have to wait 4-6 weeks to get their reasons through the mail.

I get the reason for rejection and check my check my credit to find out that there are charge off account listed under my name. A charge off is when a bank or some entity you owe money to sells the collections info to a collections agency, repo men of owed money. Some of these charge offs are from 2004 when I was living in California and still some how listed in KC.

I send in my protests to all the agencies about the false charges and fraudulent accounts. This take 30+ days to get their verdict. Okay so one of the 5 was removed but those that remain are large. So now I have to google the collections agencies to find their phone numbers and call each one and argue it out. The problem at this point is that no one there knows anything. One of the account I find out originates from my bank so I call them and request a fraud investigation and copies of the application(on of the other accounts had no applications on file) I get this 3 weeks later and it certainly isn't in my writing and I take it to the bank to raise more hell.

I swallow my pride and ask a friend to co-sign with me and he says yes. We fill everything out and bam! You are not cleared even with a co-signer they say. WTF and to top it off it will take another 4-6 weeks to find out why.

So there in short is what I've been doing wile I'm in school working on projects and working 4 jobs. Proof that the system will at every turn try to stop you and rape you. I'm just trying to get this shit done so I can continue school. And another funny thing is I'm now on the honor roll but there isn't any kind of grant I can apply for that would help me out because I'm not enrolled in the spring semester.

Here is the deal, set a calendar event once a year and check all three of your credit scores for free on that day and dispute shit that isn't yours because even if you get it removed it can take up to 6 months to have it removed from your credit history. Of course it only takes them a few moments to add something bad, but why in the hell does it take 6 months to remove it we are literally talking a few keystrokes and it should be gone. This whole situation has been aggravating.

Banksy + Simpsons = Awesome

Some know of my love of street art but I would say most don't. This blew my mind and I wanted to share it. Also here is a link to the NY Times interview about the Banksy opening for the Simpsons. And in other Banksy news he has dodged the bullet a second time on Ebay as an auction claiming to be selling the identity of the super secretive street artist was pulled for a second time. And if you want to know more about that here you go.

To Design in the 3rd dimension and to be a student.

I just uploaded even more work onto Behance and the 2 pieces I did are in my top ten works that I enjoyed to make and would love the chance to remake better. I really would like the opportunity to make more thing that exist outside of the computer and come off the page. I enjoy graphic design I just wish people could interact with my work more and perhaps change the work by their own presence. Static work in this day and age is almost elitest because it's saying here is my idea look at it it is better than you and you have little or no say in it.

Ok I don't exclusively feel that way about design but I think that some designers might understand what I'm trying to get at.

And now I'm eagerly awaiting news of the 11th hour nature. I may be back in school but I don't know as of yet but my fingers are crossed but my hope are no higher than they were yesterday. If I can that wold be great and life would be wonderful and blah blah blah. It's almost as if I've spent so much time planning what I would do if I couldn't go that the prospect of continuing is disappointing but then again I can't really say until the new final word comes in.