cimorene

so the people in finland are being very cooperative, thus far, except for the first one who i'm convinced was only pretending to speak english; someone named tarja malinen (which i tell you because i think it's about the spiffiest name i've heard in two point five weeks at least) has explained everything nicely. i emailed two separate people in my own college's financial aid office, politely asking clarification of the rather urgent point of when exactly i'm going to have to fill out forms to get financial aid. as you may imagine this is rather important and may prevent me from going. as it's their job in that office to handle problems with financial aid and that's what this is, and we're paying the damned snotty school upwards of $37,000 a year (well, no, that's tuition but it's really more like $14 or $17 grand that the parents have to pay, in loans at the rate of a few hundred a month)--you'd think they could answer the question.

apparently you would be wrong. i'll have to dig about through the website again and try someone else, i guess.