College Application Stress/Rants

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If you're stressed out and you feel like whining about the whole application process and deadlines and such, this is the place to do it. Sorry, I'm just stressed out. I applied for the Library Tech program and I got in but my payment is due and my stupid student loan still hasn't gone through and the college payment is due next week. It'll take 3 or 4 weeks until my OSAP comes through so I'll have to make quite a few phone calls this week. Ugh, I'm so stressed and confused about everything that I have to do. Blah. Payment deadlines suck.

Tell the school your situation--that you are still waiting for the loan to come through. I'm sure they've had to deal with this many times before. They should be willing to wait as long as the loan is going through the process. If not, talk to your parents or other relatives about a short term loan. If you have to go that route, make sure you pay back your relatives as soon as possible.

On the plus side, you are headed to college! And, you are enrolled in Library Tech! I never went to college, and am still kicking myself decades later. I would have liked going for one of the library careers. My first job was part-time as a page in a library, and I liked it. It was a position reserved for high school kids. Because the library is a non profit organization, they don't have to pay the minimum wage for non skilled employees, so they didn't. People with a degree get paid at skilled rate, which is a lot more than I got back then. Granted, starting pay is at the low end when you first start out, but there are raises over time. I needed more money than the below minimum pay I was getting there, so I eventually found another, full time job after I graduated from high school.

I had a hard time in school. Some of it was from trying to learn things I was required to take, but that had no interest in. My mind tends to lock up against such stuff, making it hard to learn them. My other problem with school was a lifetime spent being preyed upon by the other kids. Between my academic problems and the constant abuse by the other kids, by the time I graduated from high school, I couldn't stand the thought of going through any more of it, if I didn't have to, so I didn't pursue a college education. Because of money and health problems, college is no longer an option for me.

Please don't pass up this opportunity. Also, I think you will like working in a library. Good luck!

I didn't know you had to write a million "short" essays for every one of MIT's freshman programs. UGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH.

Are you taking the Library and Information technician program in person or online?

If you choose to do online, you can just register for as many courses as you can pay for.

I was interested in that program and Seneca college has a fast track option for that program for people with a diploma or degree.
It starts in May and goes to the end of April, I think.

I've looked at graduate employment reports for people who have finished the LIT program across Ontario and usually 1/3 of people get jobs related to their program but at a much higher average salary compared to other programs, usually 44,000 per year.

Algonquin college has the best graduate employment record for Library and Information technology.

And to answer your question, yes I am stressed out over college tuition payments. I have enough to pay for rent and tuition for the entire year but that will leave me with next to nothing so I'm trying to to get a loan to pay for both rent and tuition.

No, I'm taking a program in Marketing Research at Algonquin.

TWO 3-hour placement tests?!

No, they're placement tests for classes. Scoring high enough would give me more class options to choose from in that particular subject.
One of the tests is an "advanced standing" test, and if I pass, I get credit for that class without taking it. (Freshman biology, if you're curious.)

The applications I was talking about earlier are for other programs specifically for freshmen.