Comments on: This has been all round shitty end of January http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/ Code, love, life, peace and dogs! Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Beanie http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-307 Beanie Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:17:02 +0000 http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-307 That sucks dude.........now who's supposed to take over your TA's? Moron.......I wonder how long he's gonna juggle TA's this semester before noone has one. You know my feelings on this one, dude. Good luck finishing your thesis! :) That sucks dude…......now who’s supposed to take over your TA’s? Moron…....I wonder how long he’s gonna juggle TA’s this semester before noone has one. You know my feelings on this one, dude. Good luck finishing your thesis! :)

]]> By: Mark http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-306 Mark Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:46:26 +0000 http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-306 I thank you for your concern for international students, but I would like to stress that I am one myself! We choose to come here and have signed paperwork promising personal financial support for our schooling here. When we accepted the appointment at UT, we were asked to sign the aforementioned document before we were assigned I-20s. In other words, many schools like UT will not give an International student admission until they have promised their own finances to pay for school. As an International student who has gone through a lot of crap and worked his entire school career to support himself, all I would like to say is that it is fair to give local residents the first chance to get financial aid. I firmly believe that an International student should lose their assistantship first before a local student loses his or hers. Charity begins at home my friend, and just because I am on the other side of the fence does not make me more deserving than a local student whose parents pay all the American taxes and who deserves the first chance. Dennis, thank you for your support. I have a temp job for this semester. I am almost done!! :) I thank you for your concern for international students, but I would like to stress that I am one myself! We choose to come here and have signed paperwork promising personal financial support for our schooling here. When we accepted the appointment at UT, we were asked to sign the aforementioned document before we were assigned I-20s. In other words, many schools like UT will not give an International student admission until they have promised their own finances to pay for school. As an International student who has gone through a lot of crap and worked his entire school career to support himself, all I would like to say is that it is fair to give local residents the first chance to get financial aid. I firmly believe that an International student should lose their assistantship first before a local student loses his or hers. Charity begins at home my friend, and just because I am on the other side of the fence does not make me more deserving than a local student whose parents pay all the American taxes and who deserves the first chance.
Dennis, thank you for your support. I have a temp job for this semester. I am almost done!! :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-305 Anonymous Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:17:05 +0000 http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-305 with ur negative views on internatinoal students, u deserve to lose ur job, i guess. internaltional students choose to come here, i'm sure, but it doesn't mean that they deserve any unfairness in terms of getting oncampus jobs. they are outsiders, so they pay their dues by paying extra in tuition. i think everything else should be fair to all students once they get admiited on campus. with ur negative views on internatinoal students, u deserve to lose ur job, i guess. internaltional students choose to come here, i’m sure, but it doesn’t mean that they deserve any unfairness in terms of getting oncampus jobs. they are outsiders, so they pay their dues by paying extra in tuition. i think everything else should be fair to all students once they get admiited on campus.

]]> By: dennis http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-304 dennis Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:36:22 +0000 http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/01/25/this-has-been-all-round-shitty-end-of-january/#comment-304 Mark: That's rough. It's rather sad how school administration is always looking to cut part-time employees and student jobs while their salaries -- and tuition -- are constantly rising. Good luck finding something else soon. Mark: That’s rough. It’s rather sad how school administration is always looking to cut part-time employees and student jobs while their salaries—and tuition—are constantly rising. Good luck finding something else soon.

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1/25/2004

This has been all round shitty end of January

Filed under: — Mark @ 1:06 pm

Friday morning was a definite 9 in the level of bewilderment and complete disgust at the University of Toledo. I found out, in the third week of the semester mind you, that my position as a TA and webmaster for the EECS Department had been terminated as of Thursday evening (after having been confirmed in writing three weeks prior). They simply took away my funding without any official reason. On further enquiry into this fiasco, I find out that this was not personal or related to my performance at all. They needed to cut some funds and decided that 4 semesters were too long to hang around for a graduate degree in computer science (though my undergrad was in physics and I was only funded for one semester prior to this one! I had paid my way through the four undergrad CS courses I was forced to take) and that they were going to cut my assistantship. (Knock on wood) I still have my tuition waiver and I was offered a part time position as webmaster by the chair of the department. I will take the position in spite of being disgruntled about the whole situation because some money is better than none and it will get my out of the house. All the more reason to get the frick out of this God-Awful-Place (ha! GAP) and get my ass into gear.
Needless to say, I have been listless, a little worried (though I am financially quite secure from my own savings and with a lot of help from my wonderful parents) and just cannot concentrate on what is really important, my thesis. I have been chugging away at it all this weekend though not producing as much as I would have liked to. I am hoping to have the literature review and the introduction done by the end of this upcoming week. The reason I had not posted this yet was twofold. I have not spoken with my parents about this (I will discuss it tonight before they read this) and I did not want them to be rudely surprised by the entry. The second reason is that I was still deciding whether to take the temporary position or not. I obviously have made up my mind.

In conclusion, I would like to say this to everyone in any position of responsability in the educational community: Please do not shaft students. We are already poor and completely at the behest of the puny little stipend that you provide. Unlike losing a real job where you might have had some backup or might have a spouse to help out, losing the “$400 every couple of weeks” could mean dropping out of school for a lot of kids. International students are even worse off, but they dont count because they choose to come here. Thankfully, I am not out on the streets yet and will continue to face the stupid, assenine, farcical and riduculous music till I am done.
Heh…..Peace

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  1. Mark: That’s rough. It’s rather sad how school administration is always looking to cut part-time employees and student jobs while their salaries—and tuition—are constantly rising. Good luck finding something else soon.

    Comment by dennis 1/25/2004 @ 11:36 pm

  2. with ur negative views on internatinoal students, u deserve to lose ur job, i guess. internaltional students choose to come here, i’m sure, but it doesn’t mean that they deserve any unfairness in terms of getting oncampus jobs. they are outsiders, so they pay their dues by paying extra in tuition. i think everything else should be fair to all students once they get admiited on campus.

    Comment by Anonymous 1/26/2004 @ 12:17 am

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