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Sophomore year.

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New year equals a new me. As the beginning of school inches closer and closer, move in day is upon us. The struggles of getting everything settled and situated for the upcoming year lingers on and on which is an exhausting process. Having multiple trips to Financial aid, Bursar, Housing, etc. Having to wait in long lines while you're there making you and whoever came with you go from one place to another just to find out you needed it from some other department. Trying to squeeze every penny they can out of you. I know from personal experience for the last three weeks my mother and I had been dealing with it. Yes I said THREE WEEKS, we wanted to get a jump start to make sure when it came to me moving in I really wouldn't have to wait but only for them to let me in my room. It was almost like that but then we had found out some things that they really should have told us back in May or June that we didn't find out until the beginning of August so, which was also my fault as well but that made going up to school hell and didn't really make my mother to happy with me. Then we found out that since my mother works for the state I could've been receiving and extra discount on my tuition so me and my mother were both pretty irritated when we heard that. Things have a way of working out. So after all of that, I was getting my room and things the person I was suppose to be roommates with wasn't my roommate anymore for whatever reason, so that was irritating then there were tons of problems with my room so I just went home and came back the next day with the intentions to talk to someone about it; but as I walked into the dorm the dorm director was like since we made a mistake and you and the guy that was suppose to be your roommate weren't in the same room if you want to, we can move you into another dorm and you two can be roommates there. So, I went to go see the room and that room was better than my previous room so I jumped on the opportunity and now we're here with a better room and the roommate that I want.

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