ITT Technical Institute Financial Aid
Financial Aid at ITT is a pretty fast process. You fill out a few papers they don’t explain to you and then when you start asking questions you get very brief answers and referred to “Sallie Mae”. Funny thing is when you contact Sallie Mae by email you get no response and when you call on the phone you get a rude customer service representative that tells you your school should have discussed all your questions and concerns with you and then they refer you back to your school. Pretty helpful huh?
Well it gets better! ITT Technical Institute of Sylmar, California put my financial paperwork in the mail last year instead of handing it to me in person. Well, for some reason their mail is delayed because I didn’t get that paperwork until the day my Cal Grant paperwork was supposed to be turned into the State of California. Yes, that’s right I got the papers at my house on the last day to have them in the office of the State of California for a Government Grant.
I went into the office and complained and she said sorry. She had no explanation as to why she waited until the last minute and robbed me of my chance for a Government Grant towards my tuition.
I wrote a letter and sent my paperwork in anyway telling them of the situation and as expected no response and no grant.
So here we are again, time to fill out the paperwork again. I was called out of class to be handed my paperwork this time and as I look at the paperwork they want all of my papers signed and returned with copies of W-2’s and more in 6 calendar days after receipt. Pretty timely huh?
Oh, just a little extra on their mailing punctuality; I got my Christmas card from ITT on January 4th wishing me a Merry Christmas. The date on the card was December 26th and the postmark was December 29th. Isn’t Christmas on December 25th?
The Gilmore Girls
A few years ago I fell in love with a TV show called the Gilmore Girls. I guess because my personality is just as quirky as the main character Lorelai. Unfortunately, because of school I have been unable to keep up with the show.
Luckily my sweet husband bought me season 6. Ironic enough he knew I liked the show, but had no clue which season he was buying and as it turned out it was the last season that we had TIVO’d but lost it when the TIVO went haywire.
So cool now I’m able to keep up…I watch all but the very last episode when my husband and school buddy tell me dreadful news. Can Luke and Lorelai really be over??? I got sick to my stomach and told them not to tell me anything except I wanted to know if they were killing someone off of the show. They both said no which brought me some relief until I was told that Season 7 is Lorelai’s last signed season and the writer of the show is gone, which probably means…gilmore girls will end this season. Or if it continues will lose interest of the Gilmore Girls fanatics until it gets cancelled. None the less…I finished the last episode and the shock set in when I realized that my husband and school mate were right. It’s over with Luke and Lorelai. How could he leave her hanging that long? What’s the difference between Lorelai being a single mom with Rory and Luke learning he’s a Dad? Why can’t he just accept the fact that it’s possible to merge the families into one? Stupid Luke…and yet stupid Lorelai…how could you just jump in bed with your Ex if you really love Luke as much as you say you do?
Well season 7 has begun and I haven’t been watching…I’m scared…what will become of Luke, Lorelai, and Christopher? What about Rory and Logan who is in London for a year? Will this be the last season of a wonderful show? And if I start watching now I’ve already missed a few episodes that’ll ruin it all. I’ve got to find the episodes I’ve missed and catch up that’s the bottom line. The Gilmore Girls is too good of a show to just skip and then wait until it’s out on DVD. Anyone have the episodes I’ve missed? 
I’ll find them and until then I eagerly await the fate of the Gilmore Girls.
ITT Technical Institute-Real Hands on experience
ITT Technical Institute prides themselves on their “hands on training”. Well, I can’t speak for any of their campuses, but the one I’ve gone to. ITT Techical Institute in Sylmar, California has recently upgraded some of their labs with new equipment. Purchasing new PC’s is a start, but the Local Area Network (LAN) is impeckably slow and there are multiple instances of other hardware failures.
Funny story, 3 weeks ago I was in my Linux class. We were learning how to remote desktop with the command line in Linux. The entire class was having problems getting out to the internet using DHCP. We kept getting error messages and then Linux would reboot us and we’d have to start all over again just to end up in this vicious circle. We informed the teacher and he played with a couple of our PC’s and was just as stumped as the rest of us. Finally, one of the more advanced students said it’s got to be the router that we’re all connected to. He called in the campuses IT guy and they took our external drives to another lab. Sure enough, they were able to get out to the internet and remote admin into other external drives on the network.
Why is it that a student, someone who is paying thousands of $ in tuition knew what the problem was, but our teacher was clueless? Shouldn’t our teacher know these things and show us all how to fix them? Worst thing is because we didn’t figure out the problem until the end of the night most of us we never able to finish out labs completely so we don’t know if we did it right or wrong and because of the accelerated program we’re in…there will be no time to make it up.
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