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Thank you, Residence. Love you too.
Jun. 18th, 2005 02:16 pmYay! College residence totally messed up my form this year. You gotta love them. They try.
PROBLEM ONE
They stuck me in a single room. For those unfamiliar with res lingo, "single room" = "walk in closet". I had signed up for a double room. They DID give the one semester discount, thank goodness, but with a double room it would have cost me only $1600. The single room is $2000. Now, $400 may not seem like a lot of money to you, but that could mean the difference between going home for Thanksgiving or staying up north. I can't take the bus home, so I need to fly. If I ordered the plane tickets even now, the cost would be over $300. This is SERIOUSLY frustrating.
I have a freakin' sinking feeling that this mess was caused by certain members of the staff. If it was impossible to find a match for me in res for a roommate, fine. I understand that. There are some assholes who decide that they can live in a roommate situation, but the truth of the matter is that they probably are single children who have lived in a house in the countryside all of their lives. They have no idea how to handle living in a community-type building, let alone in a room with a person they've never met before.
BUT, you need to understand that there is a complete and total prick in the res staff that has it out to get me. For some reason, he thinks that once you become an adult, they only fun you can have is related to non-stop sex or drinking until you go blind. It bothers him that I don't do either of the above. I believe he thinks that I'm upholding what my parents told me to do, not realizing that my opinions on the matter are my own. The whole "Cut loose and think for yourself" deal doesn't hold up when you realize that I ALREADY DO THAT. If I listened to my parents, I wouldn't be studying media or be studying it in Thunder Bay, of all places.
I dunno. Maybe he thinks that having a roommate that supports my ideals... like... Mandy, is a bad thing.
PROBLEM TWO
They're charging me full meal plan price. What the SHIT? I was told, point blank, that I would have to only 50% of the meal plan because I'm only there half the year. Now I'm stuck with $1920, with no chance of a refund because you can't get one on the smallest plan.
$1920 is crap. I only spent $1400 last year, not including the money I screwed out of the system but that wasn't my fault. There is no way I'll be able to spent $1920 in four months. I was searching my brain hard to figure out how I was going to spend $960 in a semester.
And of course, the res office isn't open until Monday, so I have to sit and fume about this all weekend.
On a happier note: I want these. They're so cute. WestJet is leaving Terminal 2 for Terminal 3 at Pearson, which makes me believe that the GTAA is almost at the point where they're ready to connect Terminals 1 and 2. This totally mucks up my brain, because we've gone from some vague idea of logic between the terminals to NOTHING. It's like the new Superterminal is a private Air Canada/Star Alliance party and everyone else is shoved into Terminal 3.
Except for LOT Polish Airlines and US Airways. They're Star Alliance and in Terminal 3. The most I can figure is that they screwed at the Star Alliance secret santa exchange and are being shunned. I guess terrorist themed gifts, even when presented in good fun, don't go down well with airlines.
PROBLEM ONE
They stuck me in a single room. For those unfamiliar with res lingo, "single room" = "walk in closet". I had signed up for a double room. They DID give the one semester discount, thank goodness, but with a double room it would have cost me only $1600. The single room is $2000. Now, $400 may not seem like a lot of money to you, but that could mean the difference between going home for Thanksgiving or staying up north. I can't take the bus home, so I need to fly. If I ordered the plane tickets even now, the cost would be over $300. This is SERIOUSLY frustrating.
I have a freakin' sinking feeling that this mess was caused by certain members of the staff. If it was impossible to find a match for me in res for a roommate, fine. I understand that. There are some assholes who decide that they can live in a roommate situation, but the truth of the matter is that they probably are single children who have lived in a house in the countryside all of their lives. They have no idea how to handle living in a community-type building, let alone in a room with a person they've never met before.
BUT, you need to understand that there is a complete and total prick in the res staff that has it out to get me. For some reason, he thinks that once you become an adult, they only fun you can have is related to non-stop sex or drinking until you go blind. It bothers him that I don't do either of the above. I believe he thinks that I'm upholding what my parents told me to do, not realizing that my opinions on the matter are my own. The whole "Cut loose and think for yourself" deal doesn't hold up when you realize that I ALREADY DO THAT. If I listened to my parents, I wouldn't be studying media or be studying it in Thunder Bay, of all places.
I dunno. Maybe he thinks that having a roommate that supports my ideals... like... Mandy, is a bad thing.
PROBLEM TWO
They're charging me full meal plan price. What the SHIT? I was told, point blank, that I would have to only 50% of the meal plan because I'm only there half the year. Now I'm stuck with $1920, with no chance of a refund because you can't get one on the smallest plan.
$1920 is crap. I only spent $1400 last year, not including the money I screwed out of the system but that wasn't my fault. There is no way I'll be able to spent $1920 in four months. I was searching my brain hard to figure out how I was going to spend $960 in a semester.
And of course, the res office isn't open until Monday, so I have to sit and fume about this all weekend.
On a happier note: I want these. They're so cute. WestJet is leaving Terminal 2 for Terminal 3 at Pearson, which makes me believe that the GTAA is almost at the point where they're ready to connect Terminals 1 and 2. This totally mucks up my brain, because we've gone from some vague idea of logic between the terminals to NOTHING. It's like the new Superterminal is a private Air Canada/Star Alliance party and everyone else is shoved into Terminal 3.
Except for LOT Polish Airlines and US Airways. They're Star Alliance and in Terminal 3. The most I can figure is that they screwed at the Star Alliance secret santa exchange and are being shunned. I guess terrorist themed gifts, even when presented in good fun, don't go down well with airlines.
