Nothing like starting out your day with a panic attack.

I got an email from financial aid this morning informing me that if I didn't "apply my financial aid online" by tomorrow at 5pm, my enrollment would be dropped. Never mind that there was no information on how *exactly* I was supposed to go about doing this---or that I've been trying to figure it out for the past two months.

So I called financial aid, where a very condescending chap walked me through the whole, two-second-long process. State schools are the way to go, I tell you. At this rate, I'm liable to end up in a straitjacket by Thanksgiving.

Grrrrrr.

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