Uh, fun start to my birthday.
May. 10th, 2013 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meitantei_cjThe facilities guys were outside and backing a truck up, which of course started the back-up beep, which forced Heather awake, and now I've had to deal with constant bitching since then. ^^;
ANYWAY. Today shall be spent doing nothing but fun things. I have a final tomorrow morning (that I'm not worried about), but absolutely nothing today. I want pizza and games. Real tempted to order something from Pizza Hut. Domino's is closer, but PH is way better. I'd kill for some Little Caesar's right now, though. XD;
I've been playing Virtue's Last Reward, the sequel to 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, since classes ended. I can't put it down. Just like last time. I specifically didn't start playing it when I got it at least a month ago because I knew this would happen. Basically, VLR is this semester's Homestuck. XD;; I'm flying through the game, partly because it's easier to this time around. There are WAY more branching paths as far as I can tell, but you're also able to jump to points you've already been in the story's flow chart, so after I make a choice and hit a game over, I just go back and switch choices. I've been gunning for bad endings first. One of them escalated QUICKLY. The other reason I'm flying through? TV Tropes. I want to read the game's entry SO BADLY and I can't because of massive spoilers. This is a visual novel, after all. I snuck a peek there once already and got a major spoiler, so I've banned myself from all of TV Tropes until I finish the game.
I'm looking to do things this summer. Last summer I sat around. This summer I want to avoid that. I'm going to look for a job when I get back so I can pull in some money. Depending on what the school gives me in aid (I don't know yet because Financial Planning still has yet to send award letters... it's never taken this long before), I'll either try to save up money to pay my part, or save up spending money and take out a loan for the last year. If they ignore my FAFSA, which they should since they know I don't have any income, I'm hoping to get the entirety of the Pell Grant again. That'll help... even though it might also drop the amount of institutional aid I get, but whatever. I'm going to look into private loans, because Mom was talking about them with a friend (when I was going to take a summer class--I've since decided not to take the class) and he told her that some private loan interest rates are better than fed. I've always known the opposite, so I'm going to do some digging. If it's true, though, I'm thinking about just taking out another loan. It shouldn't be for too much money. My EFC is only $3000 next year as opposed to the $8000 it was for this school year. If I can squeeze some aid out of the school, it might go down. Or they'll give me a 0 EFC like last time.
Heather went back to sleep when I started ignoring her, haha.
We totally had a Gossip Girl running a Facebook page for people of the Juniata community to post confessions. It started off rocky (a few select dummies used it to cyberbully), but the admin quickly stopped that, and it became a serious outlet for everyone who's stressed out over Finals Week. They were anonymous confessoins, so everything was posted: crushes, fantasies about people, drunken stories, drug use, sex stuff. The college administration got wind of it somehow and put a stop to it, which has most of us pissed off. Like, way to censor us. Way to bully whoever the admin is. (They received an order from the administration to "cease to exist". They was using campus internet, so an IP trace wouldn't have been hard, I imagine.) The person is graduating. I'm really hoping they'll wait until after graduation, maybe change the name of the page (it's called Juniata Confession--not that the college has the rights to the name Juniata, it's part of the area, it's the name of a river), and then continue it. They seriously brought together the campus community, and most of the content posted was SO positive. I don't get why they freaked out. It's college, so the drugs/sex stuff is inevitable. And if they're concerned about some of the more serious stuff that was being posted, like several members of the sports community abusing people, maybe something should be done about it instead of taking away the outlet. We're a D3 school, it's not like our sports teams are sooooooo fantastic that we can't afford the bad image. Nothing will change if we don't do something about it. Unfortunately, they don't seem to care. It's things like this that remind you, quite forcibly, that college is a business.
ANYWAY. I think I'm gonna play some VLR, then nap, because I'm not ready to leave my bed yet. ^^;
ANYWAY. Today shall be spent doing nothing but fun things. I have a final tomorrow morning (that I'm not worried about), but absolutely nothing today. I want pizza and games. Real tempted to order something from Pizza Hut. Domino's is closer, but PH is way better. I'd kill for some Little Caesar's right now, though. XD;
I've been playing Virtue's Last Reward, the sequel to 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, since classes ended. I can't put it down. Just like last time. I specifically didn't start playing it when I got it at least a month ago because I knew this would happen. Basically, VLR is this semester's Homestuck. XD;; I'm flying through the game, partly because it's easier to this time around. There are WAY more branching paths as far as I can tell, but you're also able to jump to points you've already been in the story's flow chart, so after I make a choice and hit a game over, I just go back and switch choices. I've been gunning for bad endings first. One of them escalated QUICKLY. The other reason I'm flying through? TV Tropes. I want to read the game's entry SO BADLY and I can't because of massive spoilers. This is a visual novel, after all. I snuck a peek there once already and got a major spoiler, so I've banned myself from all of TV Tropes until I finish the game.
I'm looking to do things this summer. Last summer I sat around. This summer I want to avoid that. I'm going to look for a job when I get back so I can pull in some money. Depending on what the school gives me in aid (I don't know yet because Financial Planning still has yet to send award letters... it's never taken this long before), I'll either try to save up money to pay my part, or save up spending money and take out a loan for the last year. If they ignore my FAFSA, which they should since they know I don't have any income, I'm hoping to get the entirety of the Pell Grant again. That'll help... even though it might also drop the amount of institutional aid I get, but whatever. I'm going to look into private loans, because Mom was talking about them with a friend (when I was going to take a summer class--I've since decided not to take the class) and he told her that some private loan interest rates are better than fed. I've always known the opposite, so I'm going to do some digging. If it's true, though, I'm thinking about just taking out another loan. It shouldn't be for too much money. My EFC is only $3000 next year as opposed to the $8000 it was for this school year. If I can squeeze some aid out of the school, it might go down. Or they'll give me a 0 EFC like last time.
Heather went back to sleep when I started ignoring her, haha.
We totally had a Gossip Girl running a Facebook page for people of the Juniata community to post confessions. It started off rocky (a few select dummies used it to cyberbully), but the admin quickly stopped that, and it became a serious outlet for everyone who's stressed out over Finals Week. They were anonymous confessoins, so everything was posted: crushes, fantasies about people, drunken stories, drug use, sex stuff. The college administration got wind of it somehow and put a stop to it, which has most of us pissed off. Like, way to censor us. Way to bully whoever the admin is. (They received an order from the administration to "cease to exist". They was using campus internet, so an IP trace wouldn't have been hard, I imagine.) The person is graduating. I'm really hoping they'll wait until after graduation, maybe change the name of the page (it's called Juniata Confession--not that the college has the rights to the name Juniata, it's part of the area, it's the name of a river), and then continue it. They seriously brought together the campus community, and most of the content posted was SO positive. I don't get why they freaked out. It's college, so the drugs/sex stuff is inevitable. And if they're concerned about some of the more serious stuff that was being posted, like several members of the sports community abusing people, maybe something should be done about it instead of taking away the outlet. We're a D3 school, it's not like our sports teams are sooooooo fantastic that we can't afford the bad image. Nothing will change if we don't do something about it. Unfortunately, they don't seem to care. It's things like this that remind you, quite forcibly, that college is a business.
ANYWAY. I think I'm gonna play some VLR, then nap, because I'm not ready to leave my bed yet. ^^;
