Columbia Screwing

I hate (HATE!) how law school is just one anxiety after the next, and many of them are financial.

So I tried to complete my pre-registration for next year and was barred because I had a hold on my account. When I went to check my student account the only balance I had from last term was $28 (which is my most recent electricity bill and which I'll pay before it's due) but for some reason, even though it wasn't counted as a prior term balance and even though only prior term balances of greater than $1000 can lead to a hold, my summer housing was billed and the $4,000+ is already due with my next payment. The thing is, I don't get my summer funding *FROM COLUMBIA* until the end of August and obviously have to register before then.

It's already bad enough that I'm getting paid basically nothing and that, dollar for dollar, it goes STRAIGHT back to Columbia for summer housing, but now I can't register because of the way they've billed it!?

I'm taking care of this as soon as financial services opens.

I feel like an indentured servant. Seriously. It's like the modern elite academic version of serfdom: I work for the university in order to get the right to keep working.