I've got a busy week ahead. My last semester of my undergraduate starts tomorrow, so that's a plus. My actual class time is minimal, so I'm going to plan of spending the rest of my school days finishing and turning in my 10 page paper (Mexican drug cartels. Fun subject! At least for me! ), after which I can get my financial aid back.

The financial aid office decided to change the metric by which they define satisfactory academic progress. It's not just failing a class that counts against me, but not completing one will count against me too. It seems like semantics until you realize medical withdrawals count too. I finally get through a semester and they use my past withdrawals to justify screwing me over over a single extension.

So, if I don't get this paper done, I don't get financial aid, which I was relying on to finish school in the absence of a job (which is its own contentious story), and that means, sans job or loan, I don't get my diploma.

No pressure right? Right? No wonder I feel stressed.