The Promised Update

tl;dr version - I'm unofficially officially moving to Florida in just over a month. Detailed version below.


Earlier in the year, I was planning on moving to Florida to attend Florida Christian College. I was all kinds of hype. I had been accepted into the school and was fully on track to attend this fall term.

Then I got a surprise letter from Multnomah University saying that I'd be receiving a scholarship I had previously gotten, but I didn't expect it since I wasn't enrolled for the second half of the year. Still, the financial aid department didn't process my award letter until after the school year ended, so it seemed I'd be getting the scholarship anyway.

The scholarship (after other grants and scholarships) put me up to a near-full ride on tuition this year. I'd never been so upset about receiving money in my life. With a full ride as an option, I couldn't go away to Florida and take thousands of dollars in loans if I wanted to be financially responsible. So I pulled out of Florida to attend Multnomah.

Then on Saturday, I received a letter from Multnomah in the mail. Apparently, the financial aid department couldn't be bothered to check my eligibility for assistance before they told me what assistance I'd receive.

But this isn't a rant note. The bottom line of the Multnomah story is that I called them, and they were unbudging in giving me the scholarship. Citing that it was in the paperwork that I wouldn't be eligible for the scholarship if I had a lapse in enrollment and so on. That's fair enough in that it's true, and it's what I previously expected, but it's incredibly aggravating that they don't check something so incredibly obvious before telling people that they'll receive the scholarship. It royally screwed my plans for the next two years as well what I did with this summer.

But again... this isn't a rant note. So, I called up Florida Christian College to see if it was too late in the game for me to get back on track with them.

It wasn't. In fact, by the time I got off the phone, I was already cleared for fall term registration, my financial aid was back on track, and I was set to attend. I only had to verify that there would still be room in student housing for me.

This morning, I received a message verifying that I would have a place in the residence halls. With the last concern taken care of, it's unofficially official.

I'm moving to Florida in a month.

Well... a month and five days, but who's counting?

Oh. Right. I am.


Multnomah friends who were wanting me to come back, I'm sorry things didn't work out in favor of this. Friends who I had plans to do things with this summer, I'm sorry that this sudden shift in academic plans has messed our plans up.

Sarcastically, I would like to thank the Multnomah administration for misleading me then screwing me over on technicalities like any other business would. Sincerely, I would like to thank the same administration for doing these things, making the difference in school attendance costs much smaller, causing me to again pursue attending Florida... the great desire that I had all along.


Did I mention that I leave late August and am incredibly hyped about that? So much so that my hype outweighs my hate... by far.

Take care, folks.
Kenny