What's the latest in people's lives?

[Lt. Staplic]

didn't you get this out of your system when you gave my gf crap about going to band camp.

[Sonic Glitch]

MM&I wrote:
School starts in 2 days for me .. Well, Bandcamp starts Thursday, classes start August 31st (officially). By tomorrow, I will have blown my work bank account on computer and textbook expenses.. Whoopee!

Really? Did you just hand that to me as a late birthday present?

So, that one time, at band camp...........?

Hey it's the truth! And for the record: What happens at bandcamp, stays at bandcamp ... at least until the names have been suitably edited

[Tsukiyumi]

I'm flying out to California tomorrow to see family. It'll be iffy if I can even get online, much less ditl.org. So it might be a week until I see you folks again. *Waves* Bye for now, and thank you for letting me be a part of the community.

Have fun, Striker!

[Mark]

Damn, I want to go to band camp now!

[Mikey]

I've been - band camp at RU was...

Sorry, I think this falls under my "plausible deniability" regs.

[Mark]

Would we need the Cone of Silence???

[Sonic Glitch]

Have I ever talked about how much I love our state legislature? I got a nice postcard from Kutztown University saying that, since the 2009-2010 state budget had not been approved, the money we (the students) received via PHEAA (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency) has not been fully approved since PHEAA (Fee-Uh) does not know how much money they'll be getting this year. I was already approved for $1731 back during the spring, and was really counting on that money! I know there are other students counting on that money. Our State budget is nearly 2 months overdue and while they play politics in Harrisburg (the legislature doesn't want the governor to raise taxes to cover our deficit), thousands of college students are waiting for there money, which will probably be less then their initial approval, and school districts are cutting staff and programs to cover the hole left by the lack of state funds, because their too afraid to raise taxes. While they argue and cajole and threaten and discuss and sit about doing nothing, we students are (as usual) getting the shaft!



{ahem} Sorry... Things like this piss me off......

[Lighthawk]

Damn, that's really shitty of them. Hope things work out, somehow...

[Tsukiyumi]

Have I ever talked about how much I love our state legislature? I got a nice postcard from Kutztown University saying that, since the 2009-2010 state budget had not been approved, the money we (the students) received via PHEAA (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency) has not been fully approved since PHEAA (Fee-Uh) does not know how much money they'll be getting this year. I was already approved for $1731 back during the spring, and was really counting on that money! I know there are other students counting on that money. Our State budget is nearly 2 months overdue and while they play politics in Harrisburg (the legislature doesn't want the governor to raise taxes to cover our deficit), thousands of college students are waiting for there money, which will probably be less then their initial approval, and school districts are cutting staff and programs to cover the hole left by the lack of state funds, because their too afraid to raise taxes. While they argue and cajole and threaten and discuss and sit about doing nothing, we students are (as usual) getting the shaft!



{ahem} Sorry... Things like this piss me off......

Yeah, it's super-easy to get a proper education, right?

[Sionnach Glic]

Isn't this the second time something like this has happened to a US member of this forum? I'm pretty sure I remember someone (Stitch?) commenting that there was a fuck-up along those lines a year or so ago.

Seriously, you guys need to sort out whatever's wrong with that system over there.

[Mark]

Fix the government? Perish the thought. If we did that, we'd have nothing to bitch about!

[Mikey]

Isn't this the second time something like this has happened to a US member of this forum? I'm pretty sure I remember someone (Stitch?) commenting that there was a f**k-up along those lines a year or so ago.

Seriously, you guys need to sort out whatever's wrong with that system over there.

I thought it was MM&I then, too. Sorry to hear it, dude.

As to fixing the system - it's all about the greenbacks. State legislatures are afraid to do what needs to be done to balance the budgets; because when you make people pay or cut programs, the people don't re-elect you. Fritz Mondale once ran for the presidency on a platform of "It sucks, but we've got to cut stuff and raise taxes to get solvent." You don't recall President Mondale, do you?

Specific to education... the system bleeds money. Professors are pressured to publish. They simply don't have time to screw around with trivialities like teaching. So, adjunct and associate professors are added - which cost money. Winning research laurels requires investment into facilities, personnel, etc. My cousin was a professor of chemistry at Tulane, and is now the chair of physical chem at Case Western. He once told me that he was lucky if he got two seminars to teach over a full school year.

[Sonic Glitch]

Isn't this the second time something like this has happened to a US member of this forum? I'm pretty sure I remember someone (Stitch?) commenting that there was a f**k-up along those lines a year or so ago.

Seriously, you guys need to sort out whatever's wrong with that system over there.

I thought it was MM&I then, too. Sorry to hear it, dude.

As to fixing the system - it's all about the greenbacks. State legislatures are afraid to do what needs to be done to balance the budgets; because when you make people pay or cut programs, the people don't re-elect you. Fritz Mondale once ran for the presidency on a platform of "It sucks, but we've got to cut stuff and raise taxes to get solvent." You don't recall President Mondale, do you?

Specific to education... the system bleeds money. Professors are pressured to publish. They simply don't have time to screw around with trivialities like teaching. So, adjunct and associate professors are added - which cost money. Winning research laurels requires investment into facilities, personnel, etc. My cousin was a professor of chemistry at Tulane, and is now the chair of physical chem at Case Western. He once told me that he was lucky if he got two seminars to teach over a full school year.

Thanks. I do believe last time it was Stitch w/ the student loan frak-up. Tho in my case it's a symptom of a much larger state frak-up

[Lt. Staplic]

Ya Stitch's Student Loan from the school was canceled without his notification or something like that.

[IntrepidPrincess]

And get this: now the bank (where he was getting the loan from) sent him a statement saying they sent the money last semester, the school is saying they never got it, and stitch is left without information or money. He's still paying that off, when he shouldn't have to .