Ok, So I missed class yesterday because I’m really sick. Problem is I can’t keep missing because I have to keep a 90% attendance rate because of my financal aid. I’m going to class today. But my back is killing me because of all the books. I have 2 bags I carry around all day. I’m not one to grap but they get pretty heavy considering one is a good 3 inches thick. I’ve been super busy keeping up on homework that I haven’t really had time to continue on my job hunt. I mean my mom will let me stay at home as long as I want. I just want my independance away from my huge disfunctional drama filled family. I know they would all understand. I mean I’ll be 20 yrs. old in less then a month it’s my own right to want to be on my own. I guess in a way I feel bad about wanting to leave because of the health problems by dad has and my sister has and all the help my mom needs with them and my little brother because of his disability. But I have to leave some time sooner or later. They all have to have known it was bond to happen sooner or later. I just want it to be sooner. Anyways, I’m really starting to get to know the other people in class with me, and they all seem like really good people. I just keep being reminded that college is nothing like high school or job corps or even both of them put together. Anyways, that’s the update for now.
Thinking…
August 20, 2008 at 5:33 am (Life)
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Updates on Life…Plus a little info on Job Corps…
August 16, 2008 at 11:36 pm (Life)
Tags: admin leave, AWOL, books, college, dont understand it, emergancy leave, Friends, high school, info, job corps, Life, medical leave, nice people, school, update
So, I started school on Thursday. It’s pretty much what I excpected except for I have to go buy books on Monday and one of the books we use all year cost around $90 and another one costs $87. It’s times like these that I’m very thankful that I have financal aid and don’t have to pay for books. I met some really nice people that are in class with me. I’m just glad college is nothing like job corps or high school. Which I guess would be one in the same because job corps is like high school, except for it’s 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. It’s stressful, and they used to have something to help that called stress leave but when I was there they decided that people we abusing it saying they needed to leave because of stress just to find a way out of job corps. Now they only have the usual Medical Leave and something called Admistrative Leave, which you don’t want to be on. It’s the one where you don’t choose to go on leave. If you get into really bad trouble and they send you home while they decide what to do with you, it’s basically the high school eqivelant of suspension, and they also have emergancy leave, which you only get if you have a family emergancy or someone in your imediate family dies. Plus they have AWOL, Absent without leave, it basically means what it says you left without getting permisson from anyone. You can only get 3 Awols in a row before they terminate you or you can get something like 15 in a year in 1 or 2 day incramintes. I know the rules don’t make a whole lot of sense, and even if you send as much time there as I did, you’ll still never understand why they have some of them, you just follow them anyways. Anyways, that’s the update for now.
