So, the last little while . . . ok long while, I've been feeling really stressed. I've been feeling stressed about a lot of things. One of my major stressors, as for most people, is money. How in the world am I going to pay for my last year of school now that I no longer have scholarship money coming? Well, I prayed about that and soon after I found out that I FINALLY qualified for financial aid! I've never qualified for federal aid before, but the grant I was granted is enough to cover tuition!
That, however, led to another stress. I soon discovered that I was approaching the limit of credits to be able to receive federal financial aid. How Murphy is that? I finally qualify to receive federal aid, but I will lose it because I've been in school too long. It is possible to appeal, so I went in to talk to a financial aid counselor about it. He said I could petition to get my financial aid, but it would be better if I could rearrange my schedule so that going into Winter semester, I would have no more than 179.5 (the max is 180) credits. To my great surprise, I realized that I had already done that! Without thinking about it, I had dropped my scuba class (.5 credits) and now I will have exactly 179.5 credits going into Winter semester!
The final miracle that has happened, has to do with my laptop. When I went back to Bismarck to get my brother's car and to get Sara, I let Elizabeth use my laptop. Not much later, she told me that it stopped working, the screen would no longer turn on. I was a little worried about that, especially because I didn't know if it was still covered under warranty. I took it to Best Buy (where I bought my laptop) and was pleased to discover that it was still covered! That means I didn't have to pay a single penny for my laptop to be fixed! That's good, because even though I have money for tuition now, that doesn't mean I have money for anything else.
Financial aid, dropping SCUBA, laptop issues.
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