Alma Mater, Tried and True, BULLSHIT DICKINSONIA.
Okay, I'm pissed. And you get to listen.
I NEED some undergrad transcripts (unofficial, even) for On-Campus Job Search at Pitt. My info packets for potential jobs have to be turned in by the end of this week. No problem right? I mean all I have to do is print some resumes, my photocopies of my Law School transcript, and then go to the Dson Webpage and get an unofficial undergrad transcript. Should be cake. I mean, the ONE thing Dickinson does right is make ALL your information available for download and printing at any time online. God bless them.
WRONG.
Because they're "updating the sysytem" for the incoming Red Zoners, the webpage is DOWN. Access is impossible until next week. Well, thanks a F*CK D-SON, because I NEED it THIS week.
Okay, no troubles, bubbles, I'll just email the registrar, and get the hook up. They can print it themselves and fax it. The damn things free, shouldnt' be a big deal.
NO.
They email me back, after I asked nicely and even used the word "desperate" twice, and what do they tell me? So long as I like, fax them a release with my signature, etc., they'll fax me a copy of my transcript...
FOR FIVE DOLLARS.
Now, I know that five bucks is like, nothing, but to send a fax? In order to hook up AN ALUMNUS who's SCREWED BECAUSE THEIR GODDAMN SYSTEM IS DOWN, I HAVE TO PAY A SCHOOL IVE ALREADY (theoretically) GIVEN $120,000+ ANOTHER FIVE DOLLARS!
...and they wonder why no one donates money to them. The next time (okay, the first time) I give them a donation, I'm earmarking ten dollars of it for "future Fax fees by the bullshit lazy-ass registrar's office."
I hate my school.
Correction- I love my school, I hate the beaucracy.
Which is why there's no red tape in the Kingdom.
my blog, forever and ALWAYS FREE!
thanks for letting me vent.
-apk
I NEED some undergrad transcripts (unofficial, even) for On-Campus Job Search at Pitt. My info packets for potential jobs have to be turned in by the end of this week. No problem right? I mean all I have to do is print some resumes, my photocopies of my Law School transcript, and then go to the Dson Webpage and get an unofficial undergrad transcript. Should be cake. I mean, the ONE thing Dickinson does right is make ALL your information available for download and printing at any time online. God bless them.
WRONG.
Because they're "updating the sysytem" for the incoming Red Zoners, the webpage is DOWN. Access is impossible until next week. Well, thanks a F*CK D-SON, because I NEED it THIS week.
Okay, no troubles, bubbles, I'll just email the registrar, and get the hook up. They can print it themselves and fax it. The damn things free, shouldnt' be a big deal.
NO.
They email me back, after I asked nicely and even used the word "desperate" twice, and what do they tell me? So long as I like, fax them a release with my signature, etc., they'll fax me a copy of my transcript...
FOR FIVE DOLLARS.
Now, I know that five bucks is like, nothing, but to send a fax? In order to hook up AN ALUMNUS who's SCREWED BECAUSE THEIR GODDAMN SYSTEM IS DOWN, I HAVE TO PAY A SCHOOL IVE ALREADY (theoretically) GIVEN $120,000+ ANOTHER FIVE DOLLARS!
...and they wonder why no one donates money to them. The next time (okay, the first time) I give them a donation, I'm earmarking ten dollars of it for "future Fax fees by the bullshit lazy-ass registrar's office."
I hate my school.
Correction- I love my school, I hate the beaucracy.
Which is why there's no red tape in the Kingdom.
my blog, forever and ALWAYS FREE!
thanks for letting me vent.
-apk
1 Comments:
Well, to quote AMTA, "The Fact of the Matter" is that I need the damn transcript. So Hooray! Dickinson!
the best part is that I have to attach my CREDIT CARD information to the fax, to pay the five clams.
damn them. damn them all to hell.
-apk
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apk, at 4:03 PM, August 16, 2004
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