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14 May 2018, 5:43 pm

I believe he has an outstanding bill from the California university system.

I hate to say it: but I believe most of his credits earned are probably untransferable because of the outstanding bill---as well as the time lapse between him passing the courses, and now.



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14 May 2018, 6:51 pm

...RU loves to snipe at me...and put me down, and vicariously glory in the thought of things being taken away from me. He liked to ignore obvious solutions, too...such as an electric wheelchair which could help with reaching time-sensitivr 5hing Arvin. I am more addressing people who are friendly to me there.
I will say more later, but there'd been much posting difficulty! :(


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14 May 2018, 9:02 pm

AnneOleson wrote:
He also went to college for two years, years ago. Wouldn’t credits earned then count for anything in his pursuit of continuing education?



kraftiekortie wrote:
I believe he has an outstanding bill from the California university system.

I hate to say it: but I believe most of his credits earned are probably untransferable because of the outstanding bill---as well as the time lapse between him passing the courses, and now.


Wait a minute. He keeps saying he never got to go to college - but he went for 2 years :huh:

What I read in researching attending college for myself is that unpaid tuition slams the door shut on trying to get in, no ifs ands or buts. If I had unpaid tuition to my private special ed school, no college would not accept my application period end of story.



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14 May 2018, 9:48 pm

He did go to college.

He just never had the "college experience." Independence without too much obligations.

A dorm room, parties, girls, an intellectual atmosphere, etc.



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14 May 2018, 10:09 pm

I don’t know if he has two years of credits. He might have went part-time and gotten one year of credits.



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14 May 2018, 10:11 pm

I went for 8 years and got 4 years worth of credits. I didn’t get the “college experience.”

I did meet some nice professors who are my friends even to this day.

ASS-P wanted to get the “college experience” like other kids he knew in his neighborhood.



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14 May 2018, 11:43 pm

...I went to cc in Westchester County, in New York State, in 1978/"79-'80. There was no unpaid bill problem whatsoever. I never went to any form of college in California. Period. The dispute between myself and the CA govermnent did not involve unpaid college bills at all, however, the existence of this perceived - by CA - debt might prevent me from being admitted to any UC or CSU campuses.


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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.:-(
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!


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14 May 2018, 11:59 pm

My mistake. Sorry. I assume that’s why you were having trouble with the Cali senior colleges.....

You should inquire whether you can get the credits tranferred—though I doubt you could because it’s been almost 40 years since you went.

I waited until 1997 to go back to college.



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15 May 2018, 12:04 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
He did go to college.

He just never had the "college experience." Independence without too much obligations.

A dorm room, parties, girls, an intellectual atmosphere, etc.



All I have been hearing for him, is all the times he tried to get in and it blew up in his face, and he was never ever able to accomplish it. The way he tells things is often contradictory and misleading.

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ASS-P wanted to get the “college experience” like other kids he knew in his neighborhood.


Sorry, but that doesn't exactly break my heart.



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15 May 2018, 12:09 am

He wanted to “go away” to college like his friends did.

Instead, he had to live at home while commuting to college.

He grew up in a rich place that probably scorned community college.

Though, in my opinion, community college is just as good as “regular” college.



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15 May 2018, 12:11 am

I bet Ezra’s going to community college.



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15 May 2018, 12:13 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
He wanted to “go away” to college like his friends did.

Instead, he had to live at home while commuting to college.

He grew up in a rich place that probably scorned community college.

Though, in my opinion, community college is just as good as “regular” college.


Sounds like mountains of melodrama over something that's basically no big deal.

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I bet Ezra’s going to community college.


Yes I am. Maybe if I can even get in.

And I'm certainly not ever going to be experiencing any sort of dreamy "college experience" like you described. I'm scared of how much of a struggle it's going to be to get by on just the bare minimum.



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15 May 2018, 12:18 am

I bet you’ll do fine.



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15 May 2018, 12:20 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
I bet you’ll do fine.


Really? I failed the 8th grade big time when I tried regular school.



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15 May 2018, 12:22 am

But you’re smarter now. More mature.

And you will get accommodations.



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15 May 2018, 12:39 am

kraftiekortie wrote:
But you’re smarter now. More mature.

And you will get accommodations.


Smart doesn't help when it comes to neurological impairment. If it did I'd at least be able to hold a verbal conversion irl. And I did have accommodations going to real school.

I know what my limitations are and I'm willing to live within them. I could belly ache on and on about how my same age cousin I've been raised with gets to do all of the stuff I don't get to do and so on.

Maybe I'll make it college, maybe I won't. Que sara sara.