Day -11

I am not happy at all today and it is 100% Towson University's fault. I'll start at the beginning, about a week ago I went up to school to get my rebate check. They sent me an email saying that it was ready to be picked up. I went there, asked for it, and the lady told me that it was in the mail. Since I am studying abroad, my adviser told us to fill out a form for our checks to get mailed to us so without question I did it. When I went to hand the form into the bursar office I was told that I didn't need to because my semester starts in February and checks are ready the week before school starts, the last week of January. So now I'm getting 2 different answers about what to do with my money. Of course I believed them and assumed they knew what they were talking about. BIG MISTAKE.

Now I'm patiently waiting for my checks to come in the mail and only one comes, I was expecting to get 2. Both of them are equally important though. So I call the Bursar office and explain to them my problem. The women on the phone, who's probably some student that shouldn't be handling my money in the first place, tells me that the check wasn't mailed because of "Human Error". Now I'm not perfect and I don't claim to do anything by the books, but when you are an establishment handling substantial sums of money you need to get your shit together. There is absolutely no room for "Human Error" especially when your failure could determine whether or not I have a place to stay in another country. So by this point I'm pissed. She tells me that they can mail it out right away. I don't know why this women thought that after the first fuck up it was a good idea to try it again. So I tell her not to send it in the mail and I will personally be there to pick it up today. She kinda got an attitude with me and I hung up the phone.

So I go up to school to get my check and when I hand the women my ID she looks me up, finds the paper, and gives it this weird puzzled look. I ask, "Is anything wrong?" I'm wondering if she knows something about the situation. She of course says no but comments to her co-worker next to her, that someone put a note on it and highlighted "Not mailed out". So now I'm really pissed. They knew they fucked up and they didn't feel the need to inform me. So I go to get my check and get the hell out of there.

I meet up with my friends and Kamaal buys me lunch, that made my day. We start talking and laughing and they say I should hangout up there before the snow hits so we can party if they don't have school off tomorrow. I say hell yes and I make my way home. All in all this day was a head ache but it's just a minor problem that is completely fixed now.

Advice: Don't believe that anyone will do what they say they'll do. Always harass them until they get it done because you are the only one that gets screwed in the end.

My rant is over. I feel better now :D