Student Finance Has Been Sort Of Sorted! About Bloody Time...
There's nothing much going on right now so I thought I'd write a journal entry to kill time.
I was a bit late for work this morning because I had to make an emergency call to Student Finance England. I don't know if I've written about this before but there was a massive cock-up with my application: I'm starting university during the academic year 2011/2012, but my application had gone through for 2010/2011. Since I hadn't yet sent any evidence off I hadn't received a penny for this year, and as I was preparing to send my evidence off I checked my application one last time and noticed aforementioned mistake.
See, when we were given a talk on Student Finance in Sixth Form, the guy made no mention of what us gap yearrists or people staying on another year should do; or, to be more precise, when they should do it. And because so much emphasis was put on OMG DOING IT LYK RIGHT NAO I did it lyk right nao and look where it led me. This big faff with eight days to go until the deadline... le sigh.
To cut a long story short, they've cancelled the 2010 application so I can apply for financial help starting Sept 2011, and all will be right in the world. I'll have the money I need for tuition fees, books and materials - no huge panic like I had at the start of Sixth Form when my EMA took a million years to come through. Plus, I can set a little bit aside for other stuff. Flights back over to England during holidays, for instance. Paying for friends and a certain beloved Jason to come over. Books, CDs and vinyls.
( Cut for excessive wafflery. )
I was a bit late for work this morning because I had to make an emergency call to Student Finance England. I don't know if I've written about this before but there was a massive cock-up with my application: I'm starting university during the academic year 2011/2012, but my application had gone through for 2010/2011. Since I hadn't yet sent any evidence off I hadn't received a penny for this year, and as I was preparing to send my evidence off I checked my application one last time and noticed aforementioned mistake.
See, when we were given a talk on Student Finance in Sixth Form, the guy made no mention of what us gap yearrists or people staying on another year should do; or, to be more precise, when they should do it. And because so much emphasis was put on OMG DOING IT LYK RIGHT NAO I did it lyk right nao and look where it led me. This big faff with eight days to go until the deadline... le sigh.
To cut a long story short, they've cancelled the 2010 application so I can apply for financial help starting Sept 2011, and all will be right in the world. I'll have the money I need for tuition fees, books and materials - no huge panic like I had at the start of Sixth Form when my EMA took a million years to come through. Plus, I can set a little bit aside for other stuff. Flights back over to England during holidays, for instance. Paying for friends and a certain beloved Jason to come over. Books, CDs and vinyls.
( Cut for excessive wafflery. )