I just lost my rain of thought

I spent about a year fighting with the financial aid office to help pay for school and what do I get? A miserly number that I’d prefer not to disclose. Let’s just say it’s not even going to cover two quarters of tuition. All this bother with paperwork upon paperwork and I am rewarded with so little. I mean, I’m glad I got something, but this kind of loan is the kind that any student can get, so I could’ve gotten this much money without having to bring in some new obscure document I had to ask my parents to dig up, as if they aren’t busy enough, every other week. I think it’s a lot tougher on parents who are self-employed because the numbers fluctuate so much and all the office sees are numbers. They don’t care about your situation, because numbers prove everything, don’t they? Sure, you can take a second mortgage out on the house, but who wants to add to their debt? Financial aid people are part of the freakin’ problem, the reason why everyone in America is so easily swallowed by debt. Everyone’s borrowing money that doesn’t exist. Doesn’t that seem a little nonsensical to you? And on top of that, why is school so expensive anyway? What are these random stupid fees? Each of my classes charges an extra 24 to 30 bucks and for what? The three pieces of papers that they have given me all quarter? The amount of breath the professor uses up on each individual student? And why do I have to pay a seismic fee for Ackerman and Kerckhoff? I don’t even go to those places! And yet, with all these seemingly useless fees they slap on us and probably profit from, tuition still keeps going up. I miss free public education.