Need some advice etc

[AntimonyLegault]

Sad people complain at college, saying it sucks and it's a waste of time. People like me both want, and should be able to go to collage and yet this is not so.

My determination has worked rewards, but that is nothing to the system. The system is money: born a loser, die a loser in destitution to the creditors.
Talent is not enough to get you where you need to go in school, asking is not enough to get you where you want to go in school, and yet I have a weapon as a last and final resort: The law.

Certain students graduated, they were paid their awesome sum of 500$, but I wasn't. See? a paper trail, that. I COULD file a lawsuit and maybe squeeze a couple thousand out of the band, but I'd gain much enmity.
The question is, should I play the legal game and sue the people serving the community, and yet are practicing conflict of interest?; by paying everybody EXCEPT ME, or should I do nothing and suck it all up?.

I'm bewildered as to what I should do, if I sued I'm quite sure I'd win, hell they might even settle it out of court. That'd make a lot of people angry but I'm totally sick of the excuse "We'll see if we can do it next week", its like they write me off completely, like I'm of no significance to worry about, this is quite a debacle and I need solid advice.

This being a reserve, we basically have a welfare economy where everyone should be treated equal, this is not so. You'd be hard pressed to find someplace as bureaucratic and incompetent as this one, and sure I could work and pay for it myself (which is what it looks like I have to do....) but this injustice seriously erks me. >:(

[qwerty]

Not sure I understand the question....

At the end of the day I take it to mean that some people are given $500 on graduating college. But because you're ineligible to attend you don't receive this money?

If this is the case then do you really need it? Is it really worth the hassle, no offense (because I could use $500 myself).
I understand the principle is there that if everyone else gets it you should too. But the way I've always tried to look at things is this way: if other people need a hand-out or a hand-up then let them. There have been weeks that I've lived on 2minute noodles and forgone other luxuries that seem to be given to other people but not to me because of my background (come from a well off family that believes I should earn my own cash, government considers me a dependent so I was ineligible for handout). I'll tell you right now that being where I am and knowing that I've earned everything I have, having no debts to others has made me a stronger man.

I'm much more secure in myself knowing that I have the ability to move to a city without a job, without friends and very little savings and succeed.

So if $500 is going to give you piece of mind knowing that you deserve what everyone else has then do what you have to do. If you prefer to say screw it I'll make $5000 doing things my-way instead then do that.

[AntimonyLegault]

Thx a bunch. I see what your saying, perhaps its just about a negative attitude that I have, always being impoverished. I probably won't do it, maybe threaten to for fun. :)

[Rei]

Unfortunately, post secondary education is an investment on a piece of paper... You have to have the money to put into it, reap the benefits a piece of paper gives you.

If you just want to learn, it's not necessary.

I'm currently enrolled in university myself, and while I probably can't relate to your degree of poverty, I am by no means 'rich'

I rely on my parents as little as possible, so I'm here mainly on student loans which I will have to work off when I graduate. I don't know about Alberta, but in Ontario, most post-sec institutions have a bursary system, where the school will pay the excess of your tuition in bursaries. So as long as you got into the school, they won't let you drop out due to financial reasons.

So I must say, it is a fair trade. My debt just keeps adding up... and I can't even begin to pay it off. I'll probably still be paying off my debt when most other people my age are raising kids... For a piece of paper.

Anyway, I'm probably just being grim about this. That notion bugs me every time I have to line up at the student financial services for a check. It makes me feel rather indignant, but I suppose I should be thankful I have a chance to line up for a check :(

I say suing is a waste of time. Your time is better spent on other things.

[mind_wander]

Thx a bunch. I see what your saying, perhaps its just about a negative attitude that I have, always being impoverished. I probably won't do it, maybe threaten to for fun. *:)

Dude, suck it up. I am not rich either in college. I do get your point from the start, the unjustice system the fairness. Well, put it this way, the majority who did made it, either A-get a job or B-do not get a job. Its all a probability of a 50/50 chance. For you, I highly doubt you will be at the end with no job. Your an INTJ, the chances are higher because INTJ go through the system like water. I am poor too, try my best to get by and try to fit in within the system. Once your in then your in, why complain besides alot of school work. Overall, the main objective is to get from Point A to Point C. Now your wondering where is point B. Well the point B is anything you really desire. The will to make you keep on going.

I'm not sure if this makes sense to you, but I do understand your struggle.