Tuesday, August 17, 2010

School Plans are Expolding in My Face

I feel like Charlie Brown sometimes....
It started last Friday when I was trying to solve 2 simple problems.
1. I forgot to say that I had a permanent disability(Learning disabilities count apparently) on my OSAP forum.
2. For some reason I couldn't sign up for the winter courses (I already signed up for the fall ones, so I wasn't too concerned)

I need to say that I have a permanent disability to get the grant that is award to those with disabilities. I started by phoning the financial aid office, because I was told that they can fix it. I did. When I finally got through, the person at the other end told me what to do and that I had also messed up another part of the application. I accidentally selected that I was a crown ward... which I'm definitely not. So I have to send a letter to them stating that I made 2 errors on my OSAP forum.

Ok, so that's done and taken care of. Thank god.

It turns out after much confusion, that the courses I tried to sign for were all full. When I realized this (which it took about 3 weeks for me to realize) I signed up for the other ones, but i still have 3 mandatory classes that are full, that I can't sign up for. I pretty much had a melt down by this point. What the hell am I supposed to do if there are 3 classes that I can not take because they are full, but I need them to go on the second year...

After sending about 5 different emails to the registrars office, re-wording my question each time, I finally got a real answer. They passed the buck off the the faculty of design saying that I have to make an appointment with them to have this solved.
The only reason this has been as stressful as it is, is because my RESP relies on the fact that I am a full time student in both semesters. (Actually so do OSAP, I believe.)

In conclusion, I Charlie Brown'ed the whole dame thing.

to be continued...?
~ashley
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