Now for your reading pleasure, some student-isms submitted to the Tasfaa Times from members from around the state, enjoy.

• Recently a student called our office. They had been checking daily for
  2 weeks on the status of their student loan check. When it had finally arrived, she said she was on her way to pick it up. Sure enough, she arrived within minutes to pick up the check. As our office completed the loan release paperwork, she asked if she might be able to have a copy of all of the documents. I was impressed that she was such a responsible borrower! As I was making the copies for her, her cell phone rings, the conversation went something like this: "Where are you???”, “ I need you to go with me now”, “I am getting my belly button pierced and I need you there!!!”, “Yes, I am picking up my loan money now!!! So meet me!!" As she ran to the Business Office with paperwork in hand, I sighed, maybe the belly ring will help her obtain employment, but probably not here in West Texas.
  
• Just the other day, a student, who happened to be on a Leave of absence, had her boyfriend call and ask us a question on her behalf. If his girlfriend signed a permission slip could he pick up her expense funds check! Of course the answer was NO WAY, and then I gently explained that the student was on LOA and couldn't get the funds anyway.
  
• " Can I have my award letter back, so that money doesn't show up on my bill? My mom usually pays the balance, and then I get the extra money."
  
• "What? Am I Job (from the bible)?" The student received thousands in gift aid, but was upset that his Stafford was unsubsidized. Poor Baby!
  
• "Do I have to fill this out?", (referring to the back side of our application). I replied, "Um, yeah." After all, that is why there is a back side.
  
• "Hi, I wanted to check on my summer aid.", "I'm sorry. You need to register for your classes before we can make an award.” "Oh, I'm at another school for the summer." “Duh!”
  
• "Does financial aid cover vaccinations?"
  
• A student was in my office and said that her loans had been sold to Maggie
  Mae's. (For those that don’t know, this is a popular ice cream shop in Austin)
  
• And the ever popular name twisting that we hear:
  “I’m here to sign my reward letter” Ok, let me get the sheriff and see if he can help you with that bounty!
  
• Student asks, “Why didn’t I qualify for a pale grant?” Create your own punch line.
  
• “I filled out the Faksa form. How much will I get in the power grant?”
  
• “Can I claim my boyfriend as a dependent? I support him, just ask him. I clean all his clothes, pay the rent, cook, he doesn’t do anything.” Do you have a sister?
  
• “Why do I have to give my social security number to you? Show me the regulation. I’m in the law school………….”
  
• “Can I apply for scholarships via the FAFSA? How about those un-endowed scholarships?
  
• “Does the Fafsa cover the Stanford Loan program?” Maybe in Palo Alto.