So last week Friday I finally got my financial aid from Fordham. 2 months late and 14 pounds lost but whatever I’m not complaining too much. As it turns out this was a problem for all of Fordham. At first I was fine with this explanation from the Dean of Associated Programs but as it turned out some departments handled it better than others.

At the Fordham Law school they arranged emergency 0% interest loans for all of the affected students. This, as it turns out is a program that is run by main campus financial aid, but this was somehow not available for business school students. It’s things like these why I feel like I really need to leave this school. This shows that the business school and Fordham in general is not doing a good job taking care of their students.

They say that all of these issues are due to a system change. But I worked in IT, if these screw ups were caused by a system change then there are two possibilities, either the people were not sufficiently trained on the system, or the system was not properly tested.

The fact that 2 months into the semester there are still students that do not have their proper financial aid is inexcusable. It’s not like this is some podunk low cost of living town. This is New York where a hamburger can end up costing you 15 dollars! You can’t survive on a budget of zero here! it is just impossible. But Fordham’s Graduate School of Business seemingly expected us to do it.

So as you may know from reading my blog, I am currently a student at the Fordham Graduate School of Business Administration. Guess what? I now dislike it. They seemingly are having one hell of a problem with their financial aid system. To make a long story short. I have lost 12 pounds in 2 months because my financial aid was screwed up and I can’t afford to eat. And Fordham has done nothing about it.

Every time I buy my one meal a day I am putting myself further in credit card debt because of those idiots over there. Now I’m normally not one to complain, oh wait yes I am! Anyways I have been trying to get them to fix it since August 20th and nothing has been done. Well that’s not true, they have told me that it would be fixed by certain times and then the time came and nothing. So other than being mislead either intentionally or unintentionally, I don’t know which, nothing has been done. yay!

If I die from malnourishment before the end of the year you all know what happened. I’ll be sure to write a blog entry from the hospital bed. Anyways I am going to go order a 10 dollar large pizza because that will be 2-3 days of food. yay! 10 more dollars of credit card debt. did I mention the 4000 dollar payment is due on wednesday? oh I didn’t? well it is. I am now welcoming myself to the wonderful world of credit card interest. What a wonderful world it is indeed.

That’s all the Starving Jamaican has to say. peace out!