Posted on 24 February 2011. Tags: best years of my life, California, college, east coast, fresh start, happy as a clam, liberal arts college, multiple times, nobody, old school, sophomore year, Time, top liberal arts college, university, years of my life
Okay, so everyone always told me that college would be the best 4 years of my life.. i’m more than halfway through my sophomore year, and so far they have been the worst years by far.
My first year i started off at a top university in california, and was really excited to go. Once i got there, i realized how big it was and how lost i felt, and i tried to make friends and find a niche, but still found myself with nobody to hang out with on the weekends… I have always been very academically driven, so i did spend a lot of time doing homework, but so did everyone at this place.
Anyways, I would cry myself to sleep most nights, and really hated the school. I was having an awful time, and decided that i should transfer, in the hopes of creating a fresh start. I transferred to a top liberal arts college on the east coast, and am now having an even worse time. I tried much harder this time to make friends and seek connections and join clubs and groups, and I feel so much worse here than at my old school. I cry myself to sleep quite often, and have had 2 therapists tell me that i’m clinically depressed (and i promise, i was happy as a clam in high school, so this is a new thing.) Also, during november and december of this year, i contemplated suicide multiple times a day, and came somewhat close to carrying it out a number of times.
Needless to say, I’m not having the best years of my life. I can’t drop out of college, because A.) my parents would never allow it, B.) I would never let myself live it down, and C.) I have nothing else to do. I also have no idea what i want to major in, and have lost interest in what i thought i was going to major in (so now i have no way to feasibly fit in any other major before i’m supposed to graduate.)
What should i do? I’m miserable on so many levels.
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Posted on 15 February 2011. Tags: 5 months, boss, excuse, fever, phone, Time, Tomorrow, Work, work tomorrow
I have worked there for over 2 years. I’m scared that they will judge me, so I have held off on telling them. I am almost 5 months pregnant and it’s starting to become obvious that I’m gaining baby and not fat. I just had to call in and say that I couldn’t work tomorrow because I have a fever, my boss seems disappointed because I’ve always usually worked when I’m sick. I know if I call and explain to her that I am pregnant and this is my first time being sick with a fever since I’ve gotten pregnant, but I am scared that they will use that as an excuse to not give me as many hours. I am 18 and single, and my work place is religiously affiliated.
I guess what I’m asking is how I should tell my boss (over the phone) tonight when I call her.
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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: Affiliate, Ahl, Game, Hershey, long time, Time, Watch
I think the Lowell Devils play Hershey today, and I want to watch some of it because I haven’t seen Souray play in a long time, and Lowell is the Devils AHL affiliate. Does anyone know where I can watch it live for free (I don’t think I’d be able to watch it on what I usually use because no one cares much about the AHL.)
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Posted on 03 February 2011. Tags: 3 years, alot, aspirations, auto body, autobody, Career, career path, Child, choosing a career, main source, mother and wife, semesters, Stop, Time, young mother
I’m a young mother and wife. I’ve been married for 2 years and we’re on our third now (guess you coulda figured that one out). Anyways, having a child young and getting married has really put a stop on alot of my aspirations. I’ve had to alter my career path alot and have missed out on a lot of opportunities I always thought I’d take. The thing is, I’m okay with that because I’m using the resources I have in my area and the time that I do have to carve a nice niche for myself by choosing a career I CAN have. Its killing me to study, work, go to school, and man the house as well as taking care of our child all the while. I’ve been trying to get through school for the past 3 years and my husband has been working an 8-5 job in the meantime. I’ve tried to get him into school with me but he’s been 2 semesters in which one he didn’t finish and the other he barely passed. Now, he wants to leave and move 7 hours away to get certified in same auto-body school for 2 years. If not that, he wants to move 4 hours away and do an 18 month program. This is heartbreaking to hear him say this stuff. Its like me and his child don’t even matter. It’s like he’s completely blind to how hard i’ve been working to get somewhere for the past 3 years. I don’t have the option to put my family on hold and take off to chase my dreams. I think if i’m sacrificing and making the best of it then he should have to too. It think this is incredibly selfish of him. He is our main source of income to as i’m with our daughter the time and we have no daycare. The thing is, there are other places in our area that offer certification in autobody but he wants to go to the best school he can find. I really just want to tell him to grow the heck up and take responsibility like a man. If he does leave us to go there, I am considering leaving him.
Any advice?
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Posted on 27 January 2011. Tags: additional credits, automatic email, business affiliate, half of the time, hassle, insurance program, last time, membership, pho, phone, phone representative, Response, Shield", Time, wells fargo
i noticed that i was being charged $12.99 every month for some service called “wells fargo purchase shield” that i was later told that i agreed to when i activated my card several months earlier. then found out that it wasnt even a wells fargo service, but was supposedly some sort of business affiliate of theirs.
when i called them, i canceled my membership of their “insurance program”, and demanded a refund – the phone representative told me i would have to email review@cppna.com in order to get a full refund, but assured me that she refunded the previous charge on my account from that month and that my membership was canceled and i would not receive anymore charges. i then emailed this shady review board requesting a total refund and got an automatic email saying i would get my response within 10-12 days…instead, here’s what happened:
-i waited almost 3 weeks and got no response
-i looked at my statements online and battled them on the phone a few more times only to find out that they never gave me credit back for the previous month like i was told, and they actually waited 2 weeks to cancel my membership until the 19th, which just so happens to be the day that they charge me every month! so they never gave me credit for a single charge back, and then even charged me for the next month on top of that, and then finally canceled my membership later that billing day. also, half of the time i would call them they would say they couldnt even find me in their system so there was nothing they could do, and of course a lot of them barely spoke english. this is just some of the hassle and BS and lies i went through.
so i emailed…again…explaining some of what had happened and demanded a full refund or else i would be very happy to pursue legal action. 2 days later i got an email saying, among other things, that i would receive additional credits totaling $77.94. (i saw that they credited back the last charge of $12.99 from the last time i was on the phone with them, and i plan on canceling my credit card as soon as i get the rest of the credit back)
anyway, i googled them and didnt find much. how is this company (and wells fargo bank) getting away with this kind of thing? how much do companies like this pay wells fargo to dupe their customers into their scams? are there any actions you would take if you were me?
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Posted on 12 January 2011. Tags: Competitor, ecosystem, Extinction, Happens, information, niche, partition, Time
Competition for resources will occur, which will have negative effects on both species involved.
It is possible that one species may be a superior competitor and cause the local extinction of the other species. It is also possible that over time, the two species develop a realized niche and are able to partition their resources and coexist. However, it is impossible to make any conclusive prediction from the information given.
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