So, I have financial aide and I'll be receiving a refund check soon, here... this is the question... Is it normal for CMU to take forever to apply financial aide to student accounts such that the student accounts become "past due ( Read more... )

So, here I am, taking a short wittle break from studying for my calculus exam tomorrow. I think I'll do well on it, but we'll see. It's my first math test in like 7 years. I'm feeling a little less out-of-sorts today that I have been for the last few days. It's strange, as much as the air is bitter cold, it really wakes me up during my walks to and ( Read more... )

I have class in three hours and i haven't slept a wink. I'm not particularly tired. I'm just sitting here in my chair. I think things are starting to set in. I've no job, but i'm going back to school. I feel like this is that sort of one of those stereotypical "the first day of the rest of my life" moments ( Read more... )

In a tree ( Read more... )

So, yes, I am back in school. After a 3 semester hiatus, I have finally gone back to class. I'm no longer a college dropout. My classes are good and it feels great to be making things again. So far I've only made a book by hand, from scratch with stitching the pages together and such. Mayhap I'll put a picture of it up here on livejournal. In the ( Read more... )

I know this may seem heartless, but I find it much more saddening (personally) the older someone is when they die. ( Read more... )

My sister had a guest bed in her bedroom that was perhaps three feet off of the floor and had drawers under it. The drawers were only a couple of feet deep, so there was basically a large empty space behind there and we put a couple reading lamps in there and we'd just sit under the bed for hours reading books. I think I read "Indian in the ( Read more... )

I was a little obsessed with organizing my room for some reason... not necessarily having it clean, but organizing the furniture. About once a month or so, I would get out the tape measure and measure the dimensions of my room and then recreate it on grid paper. I'd then measure all of my furniture and cut it out and then i could arrange my ( Read more... )

Nothing can change. Someone always complains because no matter how 'ideal' a situation, there will always be a group of people that will feel abused, used or violated. One of our big problems is that even if a situation were ‘perfect,’ which it rarely is, everyone has a different idea of what perfection is ( Read more... )

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