The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 112

fuck people who try to merge onto the freeway at significantly under the posted speed. the freeway speed limit near my house is 75 and it's not that rare to see people trying to merge on at 55 or lower. I'm like, really? do you realize the fact that you're merging into traffic going 20+ miles per hour faster than you, and by going that slow, you're actually making yourself an obstacle and endangering everyone including yourself? all it takes is one dude on his phone for a sec, or looking away from the road to change the radio station, etc. coming up behind you at 75 and congrats, someone probably dies. how about you put your big boy pants on and drive like a real human being; ie, someone who actually makes an effort to drive near the posted limit and doesn't make themselves a dangerous obstacle that everyone else has to avoid.

Yup. They can. They take your banking information as soon as you apply for it, and can take money from you whenever they want, basically, once you're out of school for 6 months (sadly it's all in their fine print). And, since it's a government agency, you can run into issues when paying your taxes, starting your own business, renewing your passport or other documentation, etc..... They actually have a ridiculous amount of power.

I completely understand why they have it though. When the program was first introduced, a lot of people would get into a lot of debt for school, and then default on the debt after graduation while they were in shitty financial situations. They would then be clear of the debt, and still have the earning potential of someone with a post secondary education. So now OSAP has significantly more power in order to prevent people from cheating the system. It just sucks when you're getting screwed by a system that was initially put in place to help you.....

That being said, you can apply for repayment assistance, or other programs OSAP still has for people who are struggling with the debt. Unfortunately for me, I've applied and they still think I'm capable of paying it back, because the months where I had to report my income were months where I was actually making money, it didn't matter to them that I was actually unemployed when I was applying for repayment assistance.....

However, the interest rate for OSAP really isn't that bad. It's not amazing, but the system has a lot of perks over traditional lending, for the vast majority of users.

Truthfully, I fucked up. I saw it coming, and should have done something well in advance, rather than do what I did. Lesson learned.

I've spent the last 2 years trying to fix my mistake, and I really haven't gotten any closer to furthering my goals..... It's frustrating because something recently came up which caused a bit of an unexpected expense for me, and coupled with nearly a month without income around Christmas left me in a pretty rough financial situation, and the night I posted initially is when I ran the numbers to let me know that I for sure won't be going back to school in the summer (yet another 4 months out), but it's not going to stop me.

Honestly though, do you think I wake up every day and feel like I'm going to take on the world, courage wolf style? It's far from that. Most of the time I'd rather just roll over and go back to sleep when my alarm goes off in the morning. But I have something to work for. Maybe you just need to find that yourself.

I hate it when things are going so well on a date and then I put my big fucking foot in my mouth. Like, I love my girl and yet I feel like sometimes I wish I never spoke. Fuck me sideways.

gotta work like fucking crazy last week so didn't have much time to study, and today before the test I had a blackout that turned my brain into mush, it stop working and I fail my test. Fuck
went home and grab a copy of HoTS to cheer me up cuz today is my birthday

I FARKING HATE MY LIFE!!!!!

Fuck it when you're doing your best to study and your parents still thinks you're just playing video games... ALWAYS! It makes me want to fail on purpose. And fuck it when they think that writing 3 research papers can be finished overnight when I only have 4 hours of study time every night, and they blame me wasting my time on video games.
Edit: Just my mom... She thinks college in US works as the same way as college back home.

Nursing school makes me want to kill myself sometimes

I think the problem with me is that I am afraid of succeeding which may be the reason I have confidence issues, I am smart I know that but I always pull back maybe because after success comes further unknowns one that could/would be out of my control. I really need to either face the fact that I have to live life before it's all over or just suck it up and dive in whether I like it or not.

Man the fuck up Chris

Similar experience since HotS came out. Most of my friends quit playing WoL some time ago, and were never great at it to begin with. Some of them are just hopeless really, as in they almost seem to just build workers when they feel like it... truly bronze-level macro. I like to play team games with them, because we all Skype and generally just have fun. But when you lose 7 -- seven -- freaking games in a row to stupid crap that any decent player should defend against... ugh. It stops being fun. It should be fun, but I can't enjoy myself when every game the same dude just lets the enemy hit his mineral line in any and every way possible. Learn from your mistakes, how hard is it? Build a wall at your choke, build a turret by your minerals if you know the enemy has banshees. Nooo... instead he complains about the game. It's the game's fault.

In reality, it's the weed's fault. This dude smokes way too much weed, which is not something I would usually say about someone.

And now I'm afraid everytime I log in to SC2, because for some reason he's always logged in as well, like he's just waiting for me to team up with him and hopefully carry him through some games. But I. Don't. Want. To.

And yet, I can't just tell my real life friend, sorry, you're too awful to play with, because after all, it's just a game.

I finally gather up the courage to commit to asking out a classmate of mine today. I wake up and check my email: "class is cancelled due to sickness."

FUCK THAT. Now I have to just call her >_>