Post the Eleventh: Complications

So it seems as the days go by more and more things build up towards this SFU thing. Things change, things appear that I didn't even think were a problem, and I find out new things.

First off, I've changed my course schedule. Yet again. BUT FOR THE LAST TIME, I SWEAR. course registration is on Monday, I can't fiddle around with it for much longer.

First change: I'm dropping GEOG162 and taking ANTH100 instead.

Why? Because GEOG162 is a fricken boring course, I really want to take ANTH100, and while I DO want to take upper-division ANTH courses (meaning that I should take lower-divison ones NOW), I have no intention of taking any more GEOG courses other than GEOG162. My schedule isn't altered that much by this change: both classes are on Monday, and no other class is on Monday.

Second change: I am officially deciding to enroll in GERM102 this semester, NOT JAPN200.

I got an email back from the LTI, and while they said it was advised that I take JAPN200 I needed permission from the instructor to enroll. I thought, "But Annie didn't have to do that, she just enrolled in upper-level French." Upon checking out the French website, they allow for high school. Japanese does not. So, I am enrolling in GERM102. In one way I'm slightly relieved, Japanese was at an awkward spot in my schedule anyways.

Alright, so, that's all that's done for changes. I'm still taking HIST151, PHYS190, and HSCI120 as planned.

I tried applying for a bursary yesterday. I learned a couple of things over this process.

1) SFU doesn't have my correct social insurance number. I'm going up there today to give them the correct one so I can apply for the bursary before the deadline, which is the 16th.

2) My scholarship of $3500 is split evenly between the fall and spring semesters, meaning I only have $1750 this semester. Tuition, JUST tuition, per semester is around $2400. That means I am $650 short. Shit.

3) For SFU you cannot start applying for student loans yet. I don't know why, but it looks like you can only apply for student loans when class is actually in-session. This is retarded.

So, yeah, money. Christ. I wish I was a French citizen.

I did find out some good news though. I was on Facebook yesterday, and my English teacher (I added him as a friend) messaged me and told me I got 4 on the AP Lit exam. Yay! Later, when attempting to obtain my transcript from SFU (for the purposes of emailing the Japanese teacher), I found out that it had my AP scores on there. I got 4 on the AP Lit exam and 5 on the AP Human Geo exam!! :D I'm happy, quite happy.

Now if only I can ace my provincials, I might get a scholarship. A $1000 scholarship that will cover the gap left in my tuition fees. But I won't find that out 'til July 31.

But yeah. The plan for today is to go up to SFU and get my SIN in order, and then go make sure I know where my ARCH100 class is. I'm pretty sure I know, because when we were trekking around looking for my HIST151 tutorial we passed it.

Also on that note I should make sure I can find that HIST151 tutorial from the outside.

And now, for Day 9's task: A photo I took.



...Yep.

It's a picture of my friend at the Cancer All-Nighter, a fundraising event held at my school in May, where basically you raise money to stay awake at school all night. It goes from fun to horrible. But yeah, one of my friends had a panda balaclava. Another had a bright pink Snuggy. Shit happens.