It’s been a long time since I blogged anything… Let’s just say that my life is turning into a big pile of shit. Just a big pile of shit…

Any of you who have read my previous entries know I’ve been going through some family bullshit with greedy ass relatives. It’s getting worse right now… My meds aren’t doing shit. Well… they have, however, apparently, raised my cholesterol to a level where my family doctor wants to put me on medication. Like I need that on top of it all!

But you’ve all heard the family bullshit before, so I won’t get into that… If you haven’t heard about it, check out some of my other entries.

In any case, today I learned it’s not just family that’s greedy…

For the past two years, the Department of Education has taken my tax return to pay off my student loans. Which is fine, sort of… I mean, I really needed the money, but I get that my student loans needed to be paid. I’m not an idiot or an asshole. And, since I paid a huge chunk in those two years, I wanted to see what the balance of my loans were. God, I wish I hadn’t… I don’t need more stress. I was already on the verge of going postal as it was…

I called Sallie Mae first because they used to send me emails, so I assumed my loan was through them. Nope, they had no info… It turns out they split back in 2014 (when I started college) and said it would probably be the other company. I was given the name and number and called them. Nope, not them, either. I was told that, if my tax returns had been garnished, it was the government. So, once again, I got a number and called the Department of Education. By this point I was ready to strangle someone if I didn’t get my goddamn answers, fast!

Actually, after speaking to a very nice woman, I wanted to strangle my fucking self…

They had my loans, which was now in collection because it had been so long, and I was told I still owe almost $6500! What the actual fuck?! She told me how many loans I had, how much each was for and the grand total (which is almost $1000 extra from going to collections). Now, they already got over half of what I owed, which seemed excessive seeing as how I only attended that shitty online college for 5 months. The nice lady suggested I call them.

Oh, that was a huge mistake…

I spoke to the loan department and was informed that it looked like I attended for an entire year, to which I curtly replied that I did not. Mind you, I was billed for the whole year, but only attended five months. Then she tells me that my drop out date (there was an illness in the family) was in June. I told her it was not, it was in April. I even had to take time off the entire month of March because of gall bladder surgery, so my attendance was about five months. Needless to say, the options she presented me were all means of paying it back, to which I told her I wasn’t paying for college I didn’t attend! Now I need to take it up with the business department. I’m sure I won’t get a call back on that one…

And since I have nothing to lose… I’ll tell you, the greedy mother fuckers work for Full Sail University. Now, I’m not saying all online colleges are bad, but this one…? I can say I learned how to watch YouTube videos to learn how to use programs (which were very buggy even if you followed the video perfectly). I also learned that the concept of there always being instructors available to help you if you needed it was a farce. I was never able to contact 90% of mine for any help at all. You know, I didn’t need to pay so much; I can watch YouTube video tutorials for fucking free…

Full Sail assumes they’re going to get something for doing nothing. They assume wrong… Unlike their other online students, I can spell, use capitalization and punctuation correctly. I was getting excellent grades as well in my art and non-art classes. I’m not an idiot… And if they think this shit is going to fly, they better guess the fuck again. Bring it on, mother fuckers… I’m ready!