I want to cry

I should be a couple months shy of graduating. Instead, I keep getting calls from my school about re-enrolling. Each time I have to explain that they let me down by not informing me my Stafford loans had reached their maximum and that no one would approve me for a private loan and I simply can't afford to return just now. Don't they realize that I would have much rather FINISHED my last three classes than basically drop out so close to graduating?! Morons. I am very upset with DeVry.

The girl I started school with in January 2007 is graduating this weekend. I feel like crap.

so much for being a college graduate

I found out this morning that my Federal Stafford loans are maxed out. I can't get any more money from the government. I tried to get a personal loan and I failed. So I had to withdraw from my current classes.

Looks like I won't get getting that degree after all.

Fuck life.

lack of a 'wow' factor

I just finished up my final exam for BIS245. All about the yawn-worthy world of databases. :P Quite frankly, this class was totally boring. I really didn't find myself interested in it at all. Yet, somehow, I've managed to skate through the course effortlessly losing only a mere 10 points in the last seven weeks. So I'm officially 'school-related worry' free for the next three days. Then my two new courses begin. Thankfully one of them only involves the creation of a resume at the end -- no final exam! So I am now ONE final exam, one resume creation, and two class projects short of a Bachelor's degree.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I should be way more excited about this than I am. Maybe when I am fervently applying for graduation and buying my cap and gown, etc etc the excitement will settle in.

For now, I'm more excited about using my sister's new Clarisonic Brush and getting my new spring shirts in the mail from Old Navy.

the end is near

Today I registered for my last full semester in college. At least for now. I'm still on the fence about my Master's degree. I'm not sure what area I want to pursue and I'm happy just having my Bachelor's for a little while. But, yeah. I started on my Bachelor's in January of 2007. It seems like I've been doing the school thing F-O-R-E-V-E-R. I wish I had been unemployed the whole time. I could've taken three and four courses a semester more often (and been done a whole lot quicker)!

So finals open on Saturday. Then my new classes begin on March 2nd. I'll be taking Career Development (basically a class to perfect a resume) and my last Business Information Systems course: Database and Web site Integration. Spring B I'll take my last general ed requirement (a humanities course): Technology, Society, and Culture. Then Summer A I'll enroll to take my final class which is the Senior Project. The Senior Project is a group collaboration assignment of some sort. Apparently it's pretty involved because they won't let students take another course while doing the Senior Project. At the beginning of the Summer semester I'll jump through all the hoops to apply for graduation. Exciting, no?

I'm looking forward to being done. I'm not so much looking forward to paying back the $60k worth of student loans I've accumulated since I started school in October of 2005. I guess the sense of accomplishment and the prospect of a cushy, high paying job is supposed to offset the costs. Somehow I don't think so.

But I'm pretty stoked none the less.