Update on the JOURNEY!

Okay folks, soooo there about a million things that I have to update on and yes I truly realize that I haven't been posting for a while, however! I am back! So since I spoke to you last, my admission to NCCU (North Carolina Central University) was accepted and since then I have been on a roll getting lots of things done! First, I went to financial and tried to speak with them about when I can get books and get housing and when the refund check was gonna come in so I could things I need (like a computer and books) and if there are any scholarships from the school I can apply for and so on and so on. So they tell me that they can't tell me anything until I fill out my dependent verification form. As it was, there was a line and the lady was saying that I had to go and come back. SO then, I'm like: GREAT!! Then I go and fill it out on the side of the building and it turns out that even though I am eighteen and usually everywhere I am fine to sign off without my parent's signature, this instant, I am required to have parent signature. UGH! SO then I have to go and get my mom's signature!
The next day, I return with the form complete with my mother's signature and am placed back in the previous situation only this time, they are unauthorized to discuss ANYTHING with me now because my financial aid still needs to be processed. Mind you, this is a Thursday that I am returning on and the woman says to me, after my second day of returning and waiting in line just to speak with them for a minute and a half and hear: WE GOTS NOTHING FOR YA, this woman says to me, return on Monday because that is when financial will be available for review.
I return Monday and they still have nothing for me saying now that it didn't go through yet. I'm ready to give them a nice list of words I have saved for them in my mind for the past few days. So then, I go and get housing taken care of, which takes a good year to finalize through all the complications and hoops to leap through. Another day, I get to the place I'm supposed to register for classes through and they tell me that, after waiting in a lobby area for a good hour, I have to go and take my placement test before I can proceed with class registration. I mosy on over to the building where I do that, mind you it's on the other side of campus and I am walking to places all these days, and take the placement test, running on E. That freakin' test takes me about 2 and a half hours to fully complete which consisted of a reading comprehension and writing portion, an elementary algebra portion, which, by the way was no way shape and form ELEMENTARY in the least bit, more like testing me on intro to pre-calculus and *sigh* it's a lot. Oh and a foreign language portion which cough cough I totally tested out of! SO with that done, I took off, got my classes done and much later moved in.... Stay tuned later for part two of the update! Until then, peace to you

Update on the happenings in my realm of the COLLEGE QUEST

So here is the deal (in an extremely long run-on sentence), in cliff's notes: I wanted to go to Johnson&Wales University but was in the hole $11,775 dollars and my mom has not the best ever credit so they denied her twice on the parent plus loan and that made me very very very very sad and so then my mom turned into realist mom, and said to me "you are going to have to stress to them that you are gonna need them to work with you or you won't be able attend and you are gonna have to apply to durham tech" and as she is saying this, my mind is reeling, and I am feeling the need to just like crawl into the ground because I felt like the universe at that moment hated me. *breath* Then came the facebook post: I'M NOT GOING TO COLLEGE which was how I felt, then I pulled myself together with a push from Naeemah and Marcella (two of my friends) over at Nemo's house where I basically applied to both Wake Tech and Vance Granville Community College and added the 2 schools to my FAFSA so when I am accepted I can receive financial aid. I then called them the next day to check on my application's status and asked for Wake Tech's housing department and the conversation went something like this: HI, I NEED TO SPEAK WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT... THERE IS NO HOUSING DEPARTMENT.... WHAT? NO HOUSING ?!!!!!?!!!!!!!?!!!!!>!?!?!?!?!!?!!... NO, NO HOUSING... THANK YOU... *clickup!!* Then I went back to being distraught, back to the biggest problem with Johnson & Wales and now with Wake Tech: NO FREAKIN' HOUSING!!! By the way, Vance-Granville also had no housing... PS, the reason why I applied to both schools was because they were last resorts, yet still very promising and of course there were numerous sources that kept the rumour alive that there was housing at both schools. So the community colleges were out. Then, later, like a week later, I'm at Juneteenth over at Alexis's INSPIRATION STATION and I meet this great woman, Danielle was listening to my dilemma and said to me "why don't you go to Central?" And I was like Whoa, I totally haven't thought about Central! So long-winded cliff notes story update type of situation short, I applied to Central, paid the $40 application fee, had my transcripts and SAT scores set up for electronic delivery and now I am waiting to call their admissions office up on Monday and get some feedback on everything: classes, registration, housing, meal plan, everything! It is definitely last minute but sometimes things happen that way. So I am very anxious, this has been a serious journey and it is nowhere near complete... but I have a promising start! Plus Central has a fashion program! So until a bit later, signing off.... (feel free to leave comments)

All Downhill From Here!

SOOOOOOO! Things are definitely looking up! My mom was breathing down my neck about multiple different entities, but one in-particular brought me immense joy toward the end of tonight! So the certain thing she was stressing me about was my Class Registration. She was yelling at me: "Either you get the necessities together by Friday or register for Durham Tech by Friday!" Honestly, that pissed me off, however, what happens next is sooooo worth me mentioning that moment of indignation with my mom... Drum-roll Please! *drums roll in background* So apparently, I have been registered for class since as early as APRIL the 8th! APRIL the 8th! I'm guessing that the folks at Johnson & Wales University (by the way, that's where I'm going in about 3.5 weeks!) must have automatically signed me (and probably every other student) up? So anyhow, I have "Communication Skills" for English, "Principles of Marketing" for my major, and "Retailing" (gags twice) for my major also! Can you believe that? And my mom was giving me three different types of hell and having my heart and mind both going a hundred miles an hour in hairpin turns. And even though I don't exactly like the class selection I was given, I am so thankful that I am right on track (well except for housing, which is a constant struggle... :( still no housing at the moment...) but things are beginning to fall into place. So anywho, the reality is that YES I am still a bit behind schedule, however I am totally working on it! Asking questions is the best way to understand more, especially when you have very important, very mandatory things that are very significant to be completed! Being inquisitive helps to better prepare yourself both for success and for just not looking stupid!  lol, Asking questions isn't stupid, acting like you have all the answers is! Keeps that in mind! So until next time, Ciao! Night!

GOOD NEWS!

GOOD NEWS!

So my mom approved the Bill Me Later option, however, I went to click submit on the freakin' order and the little bugger would not allow me to complete my order with the lovely HP computer. So, apparently the first time I clicked submit, I did not have a Bill Me Later account. The next time I hit the submit order button, it was my billing address! ('Twas the fact that I'm not supposed to put a PO Box as my billing address because it isn't considered a valid billing address.)  So I called Bill Me Later and they were saying I had to wait for a letter.  Immediately I panicked because I thought it was a postage letter, which it was just email. So then I get on my gmail and look at the letter (this is when I realized what I just stated.) I called Equifax and Bill Me Later and HP Support numerous, I mean numerous times. And the more I spoke on the phone with them, while the more they weren't really understanding what I was saying or where on earth I was coming from, the more frustrated and short breathed I felt... So, for right now, in this moment, no sexy computer for me. Totally bummed, mostly because tomorrow, if in some parallel reality, my Bill Me Later status comes through, the special that ends tonight won't be available to me. *Sigh* Bummed bummed bummed... So yeah, please let me know if you have any input on PC laptop searching, any good links, feel free to post, any good deals, any words of encouragement, etc, etc. Right about now I'm struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel... And maybe I just need to put my bifocals on. Okay well, deep breaths until next time keep the peace folks! Signing off...

New Pitch for a means of obtaining the laptop of my DREAMS!

SO for about 2 months now, I have been obsessing and stressing about how to get the scholarships to cover my $11,000 I'm in the hole for, getting a laptop to make classes easier and more accessible, last minute paperwork, and the rest of the important supplies for college enrollment. Today I had an epiphany on how to get that laptop that is excellent for not too much money! It's called Bill Me Later (BML). Well, on the HP website, BML has a special that ends tomorrow at midnight for the "No Payments + No Interest if paid in full in 6 months with Bill Me Later," meaning if I do Bill Me Later, I can pay in full before February of 2012 and not have to worry about stressing over interest. The biggest obstacle now is selling my mom on this pitch! But anyhow, now my stress and obsession has only transformed into anxiousness and giddiness and a much more benign form of obsession than before. At this point, I can't wait to be done with all the supply purchases so I can sit it down and still my mind... Did you guys know that 4 out of 10 college students admit they often feel stressed? And those were just the ones that admitted it. So aside from the other 3 million tasks needed to complete for my preparedness for this college situation, the next, and definitely not last, thing needed to be added on my list is stress management... oh, and study habits/ techniques, but that is another blog post. So, keep in mind 2011 high school grads, don't let the stress pull you under! Signing off...

prepping for a JOURNEY.

Hello All, Matthias here! The first post and I'm super-excited! 

So the whole point of this blog is to keep my sanity before and during this college excursion...
Anywho, as the first blog post, I would like to thank all of you who have helped me get to this exact moment I stand, well technically sit, in! A major accomplishment was just that, getting here! So in the next coming weeks, and so on, lol, I will be thanking all of you for your help... and support, dropping knowledge about maybe a hundred different little college-nugget-update type of situations, seeking advice on different occurrences and good ways to raise money, and sharing nice little anecdotes that will ensure to evoke plenty of laughs and of course the other stuff... but we won't speak of the other stuff. So yes, this blog definitely exists, and sorry for the extremely long blogspot name but hey! It is totally original and I can almost completely assure that it is an original title. :) Okay, signing off...