{"id":37,"date":"2004-06-09T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/blog\/2004\/06\/09\/personal-educationfinance-i-want-a-refund-from-the-university-i-think-i-still-have-a-receipt\/"},"modified":"2004-06-09T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T13:58:00","slug":"personal-educationfinance-i-want-a-refund-from-the-university-i-think-i-still-have-a-receipt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/2004\/06\/09\/personal-educationfinance-i-want-a-refund-from-the-university-i-think-i-still-have-a-receipt\/","title":{"rendered":"[Personal &#8211; Education\/Finance] I want a refund from the University (I think I still have a receipt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just thinking about my student loans today. I graduated a couple of years ago and have had nothing but a few temporary, low paying jobs every few months since. As a result I was only able to make four payments before I ran out of money. They have been harassing me ever since and do not listen at all when I explain my situation. In fact I have recently gotten a letter threatening legal action.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what kind of legal action they can take against me. What are they going to do ARREST ME FOR BEING POOR? That would be great. I would raise such a commotion and do whatever I could to get worldwide attention to this fascist action. At this point I would love nothing more than to drag those greedy, selfish bastards through the mud.<\/p>\n<p>I checked that my mother did not co\u2013sign any loan documents so that I can make sure that they do not have any way of bugging her. So, I can only think that they would try to take any\/all of my assets. Unfortunately for them, I do not really HAVE any assets. I do not have a car, own any land or property; in fact the most expensive thing that I actually own is my computer, and since it&#8217;s rather old now, it would probably only bring in about $200 if sold.<\/p>\n<p>So, what can they repossess? My education? <b>GO AHEAD AND TAKE IT!!!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The education I got at Western was sub\u2013par at best. I graduated from the computer science program minoring in psychology\u2014a rare program due to several factors. I found that the computer courses were completely worthless. I already knew most of the material being taught (at <b>least<\/b> 80-85% per course), with only two (2) courses where I did not know much\u2014those were the only two computer courses I actually enjoyed. I <u>did<\/u> like the psychology courses, although after I took the first one, they became a little less enjoyable due to the massive overlap between all the courses. I also liked the philosophy courses\u2014which I HAD to take to graduate. After graduating from such a crappy program, I have yet to actually use that stupid, over-sized, ridiculously expensive piece of paper that contends that I do in fact know what I claim to know. The jobs I&#8217;ve had so far could have been given to a trained chimp.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I was thinking, what the heck, I would be more than happy to hand over my diploma to the student loan repo\u2013men.<\/p>\n<p>Of course another option would be to get a refund on my education. I would be equally happy to give back my diploma to the greedy, bloodsucking University and get back my money (I&#8217;m sure they would pro-rate it), and then hand that over to the loans people. At least it would reduce my loans to a decent and manageable size.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone who reads this has any idea of how I can go about doing so, I would be very willing to move forward with this. I know it sounds kind of dumb, but then again, I cannot even count the number of films I have seen where someone did something that sounded dumb and it became such a big thing that they made a movie about it. <span style=\"font-size:+0\">\ud83d\ude42<\/span><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just thinking about my student loans today. I graduated a couple of years ago and have had nothing but a few temporary, low paying jobs every few months since. As a result I was only able to make four payments before I ran out of money. 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