On Monday when I tried to check my grades, I found out that I had a financial hold on my account at UF which prevented me from getting my grades, enrolling for summer, and probably prevented me from wiping my ass with university toilet paper. I called the number listed on the screen and found out that I hadn't completed an exit interview for my student loan from my undergraduate years. Since I completed an exit interview for said loan when I graduated from my undergraduate institution, I couldn't figure out why I needed to do another one for the same damn loan, but I did it anyway and the hold on my account was lifted. Just now, I received possibly the most frustrating email ever: "Your online loan exit counseling is incomplete/incorrect, a hold has been put back on your records. Please contact me as soon as possible to complete/correct this info." When I call the number listed (about ten times in a row now), I get disconnected. Anyone have any clue what's going on here? Because my patience has pretty much been reached at this point.

Here's a fun story from my friend Amy at the University of Kansas.

One of the physics professors at KU is teaching a mid-level physics course this semester. Recently, the professor was called in to the Provost's office to explain why nearly a quarter of his class had signed a petition to KU's Chancellor begging to have their failing grades removed. As the professor explained to the Provost, however, these 75 students were not failing the class. Rather, the problem was that they hadn't read the grading scale properly: instead of failing, they were almost all getting Bs or Cs.