i haven’t been recording any of my horrors but figured it’s about time. i’ll back track. this way if anyone reading this goes thru the same school horrors i am, they’ll relate. or maybe decide not to go down this road. 
sometime in november i received an acceptance letter from Swinburne. I was thinking they were my 2nd choice (monash being 1st & RMIT 3rd) so I waited. and waited. and still today I haven’t heard from the other 2. i waited til the schools got bk from xmas break and then decided to go with swinburne. also, over xmas break, i looked over all the notes i took when i originally researched the schools and realized swin was my 1st choice. because i moved in december my acceptance paperwork was kind of lost in the mail. finally i had krista, my coordinator in DC, fax me the forms i needed. that’s when i found out classes start feb 13. wow! the day after i receive the fax, my lost mail shows up. that’s the first time i find out the following:
a) the visa costs $190 not $50 like i had previously read
b) the visa takes up to 3 weeks not 3-4 days the way krista told me
c) the visa requires a physical, chest xray & urinalysis which i never knew about even though i repeatedly asked krista if there was anything i could be doing to hurry the process along or get a jump on things. this is an especially nice requirement since i have no money & no insurance.
d) i can’t do the visa online like i thought. i have to physically mail items to DC
grrrrrrrrrrrr
that’s also when i realized there’s a specific chain of events that has to happen. i can’t get the loan & the visa at the same time. which means i’m not going to be able to leave on the 23rd of jan like i wanted to. which means i’ll miss big day out featuring janes addiction & wilco. i’m really fucking pissed about that. now i’m just hoping i get there in time for class.