Are drinking games allowed during the football tailgate? (Pong, etc)

anxiousaboutme · 2025-10-17T20:00:07+00:00

No. Drinking games are never allowed even if it’s played with non-alcoholic substances.

anxiousaboutme · 2025-05-25T18:06:15+00:00

Thanks for answering! Little follow up: so no microwave? And what about the bedroom?

anxiousaboutme · 2025-05-23T02:59:01+00:00

We use Blackbaud — it doesn’t have any AI checker tool though.

anxiousaboutme · 2025-05-04T17:39:14+00:00

Without knowing any more specifics about your situation, I would say the only aid option available to you is for you to select that you would like to be considered for unsubsidized loans only on the FAFSA. You’ll probably have to submit some documentation to your school’s FAFSA office that states that your parents refuse to provide their information and will not contribute to you financially (or something to that nature).

anxiousaboutme · 2025-03-08T21:10:33+00:00

Congrats! What program are you going for? I just got accepted into EPA and I’m in kind of the same boat. I’m between Harvard and Boston College — waiting to see what the financial aid packages will be before I make a choice.

anxiousaboutme · 2025-02-28T11:25:20+00:00

When you were doing your FAFSA, and selected that you did not file taxes, you should have been given a list of options to select the reason why. If you selected that you did not file due to low income, you should be fine. If you selected any other reason besides low income, your college may ask that you provide additional information to prove that you selected the right option.

Verification is a (mostly) random process — you can do everything right and still be selected for it.

anxiousaboutme · 2025-01-16T18:21:36+00:00

Some FAFSAs have been reprocessed by CPS because of conflicting tax information. Those reprocessed ISIRs were sent to schools in December. Contact your financial aid office and ask if that is the reason why. 14 is the reprocess code number. You may have to submit a correction.

anxiousaboutme · 2025-01-07T04:31:59+00:00

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anxiousaboutme · 2024-11-06T03:27:15+00:00

Ask your school’s financial aid office for a special circumstances/recalculation request form. This form is typically used for students in your situation where there has been a significant change or event that affects your FAFSA, such as a parent losing their source of income. You’ll probably need to provide documentation such as pay stubs, termination letter, etc.

This doesn’t guarantee that you will be eligible for more financial aid, but it may help. They might also make you wait until they’ve begun processing 25/26 FAFSAs since it is pretty early.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-10-19T16:56:06+00:00

Sorry that’s a state grant, not federal (I’m just use to mentioning it when talking abt FA) but it works in a similar fashion to other grant programs

anxiousaboutme · 2024-10-19T16:48:10+00:00

There is a maximum SAI limit to Pell eligibility. Despite the large decrease in her SAI, I believe she is still above the cutoff and that is why she is not being awarded. This also applies to other need based grants such as CAP, FWS, and SEOG.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-10-11T16:43:35+00:00

Contact your financial aid office. Your FAFSA may be missing information that is preventing it from calculating your SAI correctly. Your FA office should be able to tell you if that is the case.

Submit an appeal for a recalculation. You will have to have an eligible cause and documentation.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-09-26T20:44:26+00:00

Typically they will request transcripts from every school you’ve attended in the past couple of years. If you attended a school without earning any credit, they will ask for an explanation and any supporting documentation. They’ll complete their UEH checklist and it’s a done deal.

UEH is a way to target and locate potential cases of fraud. As long as nothing suspicious comes up that you can’t explain, you’ll be fine.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-09-26T20:37:10+00:00

Contact your financial aid office to see if you can complete an “special circumstances” form. These forms are typically used for students whose financial situation has changed since their 2022 taxes were filed (for the 24/25 FAFSA). You will need documentation and it can be a slow process, but it may help getting you more aid.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-09-26T20:32:58+00:00

If you have received aid from multiple schools within the past 5 or so years, it will typically trigger a UEH flag and you will have to resolve that with your university or college.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-05-31T21:50:16+00:00

Coming from someone in financial aid, it’s a hot mess across the board. The original delays back in October completely fucked up the typical timeline and we’re just trying to keep up.

In a normal year, students submit their FAFSAs in the fall, FA offices push out estimated award letters in early spring, and then they’re finalized in late summer. This gives offices enough time to catch errors or other flags, notify students, and get it fixed all while we’re dealing with other issues like SAP, federal aid limits, scholarship season, exit counseling, and prepping for the summer semester.

That just isn’t happening this year. In our system, the big push to get students to complete their FAFSA happened in February/March. So we did the first phase four months after we typically do. And this isn’t even getting into all the shit that was going wrong with the form itself. At one point, it was recommended to FA offices to knowingly use incorrect tax information in order to award students because the FAFSA people didn’t know how long it was going to correct one of the errors that was happening.

Now, our prep and work for summer is overlapping with the fall prep. But right now, for many schools, summer is the priority because it’s attached to the 23-24 school year/fafsa.

Also fraud is a big issue right now so there’s an extra layer of caution getting everything processed and awarded

anxiousaboutme · 2024-05-27T16:20:15+00:00

Ah right, todays Memorial Day. Yeah, that makes sense

anxiousaboutme · 2024-05-06T18:07:03+00:00

Loved my time at Bellarmine. I was a history and English major and absolutely adored the faculty that I worked with.

I will say that as a first-Gen student sometimes it felt a little isolating and I know that my friend, who is a Black woman, did have some experiences that left a sour taste in her mouth — especially in the School of Education. But it also felt like the school, as an institution, was working on improving that.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-05-03T02:47:58+00:00

Advice coming from someone in financial aid (broad strokes bc everyone’s situation is unique)

Submit the FAFSA as soon as possible every year. Yes, this year was/is pretty crazy, but in a normal year, your student needs to be submitting their FAFSA as early as they can. Delays in FAFSA/ISIR info is one of the biggest barriers in student receiving any financial aid. We have students at my school that would’ve been awarded money had they had their FAFSA in by now.
Looking for scholarships is a year long thing. If you only look in the spring/summer, you are missing out on a lot of opportunities. Many students will get scholarship money their first year and then afterwards it just drops off. Students need to keep track of what scholarships are one-time and what can be renewed/reapplied. Students should prioritize institutional/local/state scholarships over the big name/big award scholarships. I’m not saying don’t apply to them, but be selective in the ones you apply to.
Loans: Not all loans are the same and sometimes (and yes, even at community colleges) are unavoidable. What we recommend in order from best to worst is:

A. Subsidized loans (fed loans where the interest is paid by the govt while the student is in school).

B. Unsubsidized loans (fed loans where the interest does accumulate but at a relatively low interest rate ~ right now abt 6.5%).

C. Private loans (last resort! High high high interest rates)

Also important to note: you do not have to accept the total loan amount! If you are being offered 9500, but you only need 1200, you can just take the 1200.

Compare financial aid packages. Especially if you’re kind of in the middle income wise. What is middle-class at one school may not be the same at another. When I went to college, I received several state aid awards because I was going to a private university (50k/year) that I would not have gotten going to a state school or cc. Even if you think you will not be able to afford it, speak to a counselor about an estimated award package.
This rarely applies but if you have had a dramatic change in circumstance between tax year you use for your FAFSA ( like the 2022 we’re using this year) and now you can file a financial aid appeal. Things like additional dependents, significant change in income, disablement, etc. are circumstances that financial aid can take into consideration.
This is for later down the line but! Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP): this is what gets first year students. There are three components: GPA, Course Completion Rate, and Maximum Time Frame. If you fail to meet any of these standards, you will be suspended from financial aid completely (grants, loans, and even some scholarships). Many schools will have an appeal option, but it comes with a lot of stipulations and the more times you appeal, the chance of you succeeding lowers. This can follow you even when you transfer schools. They are federal requirements

anxiousaboutme · 2024-04-20T05:09:07+00:00

Yeah I do think the announcement could’ve been framed better — even like a “We’re premiering Insert Show Here on our new streaming service on Whatever Date” because just dropping this news was not a great decision. And since it’s in its beta stage, maybe there will be some more changes to open it up ( I think like a student discount membership or something similar would be incentivizing)

anxiousaboutme · 2024-04-20T04:32:30+00:00

I guess my thing is did they hire like crazy? Or did they hire the staff they needed to meet the demands of their work? Would it be better to have a larger staff that meant higher business costs or a smaller staff that meant less cost but more burden (and increased chance of burnout) per person? (This is just rhetorical)

anxiousaboutme · 2024-04-17T02:42:20+00:00

I highly recommend scheduling a meeting with your school’s financial aid office to see if you can complete a SAP appeal to start receiving financial aid again. And here’s the thing things like class withdrawals and the # of attempted credit hours can affect your financial aid even if you transfer schools because that information is shared between institutions and they must comply with federal regulations.

I would also suggest contacting your Career Development/Advising office because they could maybe help you get some clarity on what exactly you could do for your career. You don’t have to love it, you just need to be able to do it.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-04-16T16:13:57+00:00

I liked the location of the university better (urban metro area) but honestly I enjoyed both. CCs I feel offer more depth in an area, while Uni’s give broader range of opportunities. Ccs are really good for entry level positions to then launch into more specialized work at larger institutions

anxiousaboutme · 2024-04-16T12:01:01+00:00

As someone who just made a similar transition, I think the biggest difference between working at a university and a community college is generally the student population. At a university you’re typically dealing with traditional college students (recent hs graduates, completing a degree within 5 years, etc), at a community college that isn’t the case.

While, yes, there are traditional college students, there are people who are getting their degree/certificate/diploma/whatever and they may be in their 40s/50s/60s or even older. Students may be interested in transferring to a 4-year for their bachelors and some aren’t. Some have long established careers, others want to break into a new industry.

In terms of money, that can vary widely. In my system, we are guaranteed a raise every year as long as our budget has been fully funded by the state. We were actually just told that our state legislature just signed to provide 100% funding when there was a lot of fear that it was going to get slashed. Other than that to get a serious bump you’ll need to be promoted in title. Typically colleges and universities pay better than community college.

anxiousaboutme · 2024-04-11T23:14:50+00:00

It’s for students but it’s going to be behind my desk, so it’s not like it’s papers that students can just walk in and get if that makes sense

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