Monday, August 17, 2009

The Drama of School Registration and Procrastination

So today was a little bit of a stressful day. I'm the queen of procrastination, and of course it's always with the really important things. So today I'm at work, and I'm talking to the school counselor of the school I'm trying to enroll in, and they tell me that today is the first day of the drop period, which means that if I don't pay one third of my $5600 tuition by today, I'm dropped from my classes. So after talking with the financial aid office (I was procrastinating with them and now I'm waiting on the IRS to send the Proof of Non-Filing for my mom because for some stupid reason they automatically make you qualify as a dependent even if your parents aren't supporting you) Anyways, I didn't turn in any of the other financial aid paperwork because I figured it would make more sense to turn it all in at once. Guess what? Wrong!!! They told me that if I didn't fax in the majority of the paperwork by today to get my file started, I would lose my spot in classes. That would be terrible. So I talked to my supervisor at work, and she told me that I could leave early to go get all of that taken care of. So I ran home, grabbed the stuff I needed, ran over to the offsite campus of the college I'm at so I could fax it in to the main branch. Guess what though? I didn't look everything over completely, and there was a spot that required my parents signature. So I drove back home, had my mom sign the little paper, ran my butt all the way to the Safeway close to my house to fax it because I decided I would just pay for the fax, but their customer service department was closed. So then, I had to drive to the UPS store that was not to far away, but ended up paying $9 bucks to fax everything over to them. It all got taken care of, but needless to say the running around I did for three hours to get all of my ducks in a row was so not worth the effort I had to put forth when all I had to do was get this stuff taken care of when I supposed to and everything would have been okay. Maybe one of these days I'll learn that procrastination is a very nasty habit and that in the long run, it's only gonna make me have high blood pressure at a young age. :)

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