So Tuesday 01/14/25 I took a day off to go take care of a very important registration appointment I had at Queenborough Community College(QCC). The appointment was scheduled for 1 pm. I got there relatively easily because there’s a bus Q30 that literally drops you at QCC’s doorstep (that’s the final stop-can’t miss it). I reflexively prefer using the subway system which showed more than an hour’s travel time as opposed to the bus option (only 37 minutes).
So I got to QCC, and made my way to the Library where my appointment was supposed to take place. Pretty decent school per my first impression. Ended up registering for 2 courses for Spring 2025 for a total of 6 credit hours. Nice and smooth. I even got to speak with the financial aid office which assured me that everything was OK on my end and that I just needed to wait for a few days for the system to “update”. Importantly, the tests that I thought I was supposed to take inorder to get NY state financial aid were waived, so I didn’t have to take time off work to do the tests.
So I finished everything and got on the Q30 bus headed back home. As I was patting myself on my back for a job well done while riding Q30 back home, BOOM, here comes this email telling me I’m on “final notice” for missing work without putting in the proper time off requests🙄. I guess I was having too much fun that day. Somebody had to kill the fun😂
Also interestingly, the time stamp on the email showed 12:47 pm, meaning it was sent as I was at QCC waiting for my appointment. I have to explain why this is important
It has been my experience, time and time again while I was in Texas that school enrollment is one of the biggest triggering factor for the targeters/saboteurs. As a matter of fact if you review my life in Texas since 1999, you’ll find out that it basically boils down to a pattern/cycle of me getting beat down by the saboteurs, picking myself up, putting myself back in school(my natural habitat), only for some “unseen disaster” to knock me out of school.
In Texas, and especially in Houston, transportation is everything. You have to have a car to survive–go to work, school, run errands. There is public transportation, but you cannot rely on it–not by a long stretch. Simply put, public transportation sucks in Houston. Importantly, buses don’t even go/aren’t allowed to go into areas where most jobs are located.👎
So needless to say, what would happen would be me getting myself into some school, beginning classes and then BOOM–engine failure🙄😂, or better yet, some traffic warrant from a year ago.🙄😂
Anyway, back to story at hand. It became apparent to me throughout my stay in Texas (2+ decades) that the surest way for my car to break down or to be arrested over some super old traffic warrant, or to be pretextually fired from a job, or laid off…was when I was enrolled in school and taking classes. Somebody at Deep State clearly doesn’t want me to attend school. That is why the “final notice” email received while at QCC was very interesting. You get it now? 🤔
It’s also why even though my schedule clearly showed that I was off on Wednesday(I usually work Wednesdays, I HAD TO go in and verify that I was actually off, instead of just sitting there and going by what the app says. Remember, I’m registered for school now. This is when they strike, so a TI has to sleep with eyes open.😂 I have to admit that my circumstances in NYC are much different than they were in Houston, Chief among them, that I DON’T NEED a car to commute to and from work or school. Thank God for NYC transit system.🙏😂. It will be hard for Deep State to knock me out of school this time but make no mistake about, an effort will be made. Stay tuned for some financial aid shenanigans, for that’s the ONLY hurdle left between this TI and attending college.😂
Long story short, I reached an important milestone in my NYC stay with my registration into QCC. A much better experience than the one I had in the Fall semester with Kingsborough Community College(KCC)🙄. Make no mistake about it, none of the stuff re KCC registration was happenstance.
So on Wednesday 01/15, after running around town(day off), I got home at about 5 pm. It was super cold so I didn’t want to stay out too long. After I settled in, I decided to check my email to see if there had been any new developments re QCC, and especially financial aid. I opened up my email and BOOM, there was one QCC Testing saying I needed to URGENTLY schedule an appointment for an on-campus “TAP Test” which is a mandatory requirement for NY state financial aid–you can’t make this stuff.😂
On Tuesday 01/14 when I went in for my registration appointment, I knew that I needed these tests so my plan was to take care of the registration and then go schedule this test and if possible, take them the next day (Wednesday) because for some strange reason, I was off that day–I usually work on Wednesdays.
So I ask the guy doing the registration where on campus i can go inquire about these tests. He told me I DID NOT need the tests–that they had been waived.😳Now who’s a targeted individual supposed to believe? Why would he tell me I don’t need the tests when it clearly appears that I do? Did he deliberately mislead me or was this just an innocent mistake. Oh, and another thing, when I first walked into his office, he asked me if I had just tried to reschedule my appointment from 01/14 to a later date. He said that’s what it showed on his system.😳I never did any such thing. How weird is that?
Anyway Thursday Morning (01/16) I called the testing office and was told that I did indeed need to take the TAP tests🙄. The earliest appointment I could get is Thursday 01/23–my workday, which means I will have to risk getting fire AGAIN🤦. School officially starts on 01/25 so I don’t know if the financial aid will kick in in time to allow me to attend.🙄Stay tuned, folks
**A very important correction re QCC incident**On Thursday 01/16 as I was headed home from work, I received a call from someone at QCC testing–sounded like a higher up–super professional & courteous lady.😂 I’d shot them an email that morning before heading to work that was, let’s just say, “unnice”.😂 She told me that I needed to take the TAP test which is strictly administered for those seeking NY state financial aid–a supplement for the federal student aid. Importantly, she told me that her guess was that the advisor who registered me, was talking about the ESL (English as a Second Language) tests, which I was exempt from. In other words, there was a miscommunication between me and the advisor. He correctly told me I was exempt from ESL, but I mistook those to mean the TAP tests. So unlike you, who never admits when you are wrong😂, I have to put in this disclaimer saying I may have misunderstood the advisor. He did not deliberately mislead me. Or was he just super slick about it, you know, did it with some baked in…wait for it…plausible deniability?😳 Hmm
Also on my way home, some super great news. I logged into the QCC portal to check the status of my financial aid–I check it every 10 minutes😂–and BOOM, looks like some federal financial aid $$ have already posted to my account. I WILL be attending QCC in Spring 2025.🍻🎉All I have to do now is ACE the TAP tests and get some MORE $$ in NY state financial aid. Boy, I should have ditched Texas for NYC a long time ago.😂 In Texas I got nervous every time financial aid funds hit the bank because that’s when the car engine always “remembered” it had huge problems.😂🙄 Oh, and the tires got flat every week. Deep State, folks🤦
So Thursday 01/24 I went in and took the scheduled TAP tests at QCC(relax, I didn’t just willy nilly skip work. I had a scheduled day off😂). The reading and writing part of the test were kinda challenging but the arithmetics part was a cake walk, at least to me🤷. I was done with the testing by 2pm, which was kinda fast, given the curator’s plea that we try to finish before 5pm. I passed all the three tests(what did you expect?😂) and given the curator’s facial expression as he was giving me my results, it was clear he was witnessing something “different”. He told me that was excellent meaning after all these years, Yours Truly, the old geyser, STILL got it.😂
Anyway, so I was pretty much set as far as NY state financial aid is concerned. The financial aid office told me all I had to do after passing the test was to formally apply for the aid via a NY state website they gave me. They told me my federal aid had already posted on my account and that all I had to do now was set up my direct deposit and expect the refund on or about 02/07.👍I took care of all that.
So everything is going great on the school front and especially financial aid BUT BUT BUT, as I was doing my NY state financial aid application, I realized that I may NOT be eligible for NY state aid yet, and here’s why.
The rule is that one has to be a NY state resident A YEAR (12 months) prior to applying for state financial aid. I’ve been in NY for exactly one year(came in mid January 2024), so one would think I barely made the residency requirement. However, when filling out the state application, they are asking for the 2022 tax return which would suggest that the “one year prior” condition means one year prior to the 2024-2025 academic year. The 2024-2025 academic year began in Fall(September 2024), which means I would have to have been a NY resident in September 2023.😳
I went and put in the application anyway but I’m not really banking on it. If any questions arise re residency I’ll just withdraw the application and wait for Fall 2025. I already have enough in federal loans to cover my tuition. We don’t want to give the Deep State any chances for “A ha”/gotcha moments😂.
The financial aid guy also asked me why I never got any Pell grants. I think I’m maxed out but I’m not sure. He told me to look into it just to make sure I’m not missing out on “free money”. My kind of guy.😂
So I had my first official QCC class on Tuesday 01/28. Yay. It was an online(zoom) computer class which has a lab component on Thursdays at the same time. I had tried to arrange classes after 6pm given the fact that both Tuesday and Thursday are my working days but 6pm is the latest I was offered.
I should be able to get off work in time to make both classes BUT, you already know what happens with TIs.😂 Quite frankly I was even surprised I made it to Tuesday’s class in time. I was fully expecting to be given the most difficult routes that afternoon. I got lucky on Tuesday, but I’m not sure about today(Thursday).
Good thing is that I’m officially registered for two classes and the disbursement date is right around the corner 02/03. The other class is on Saturday, so I don’t have to worry about workplace drama with that one.😂 Usually, if you are a no-show for two consecutive classes, the professor can knock you off the class, and that will interfere with your financial aid. At least that’s how it was in Texas.
Interestingly, the Spring semester officially began on 01/25, which was a Saturday. I did not expect my Saturday class to be held on the first day(my dumb a$$). I just found out via my notifications that I did indeed miss that class. Luckily I don’t have to work this coming Saturday so I can’t miss the coming one. It would have been a mess if this was also a Tuesday & Thursday class. You KNOW I’d have left the job at 9pm tired and confused.😂
Long story short, everything appears to have checked out perfectly re QCC College. Only question now is how QCC will play with my job. I think you know by now, or should know that I value QCC more than the job. If there’s no harmony between the two, some tough decisions will have to be made this February. I’m already looking at other job opportunities that may line up with my academic interests in case the Amazon job doesn’t pan out. We’re going to do it different in NYC. I don’t intend to let any “emergency” bump me off school. You know “emergencies” are about to pop up, especially related to the job.😂🙄
So as of Thursday 02/06, everything appears to have checked out pretty good re QCC– I have settled pretty well into the classes and the financial aid $$ has been disbursed–applied towards my tuition charges. All I’m waiting for now is for the refund to hit my bank account. The disbursement was posted on 02/04 so any day now, the refund should be hitting the bank. I could have sworn the financial aid staff told me to expect it by 02/07, which would be tomorrow(Friday).
So like I said everything has checked out pretty well(even the new food stamps came through–no theft yet😂). There’s a BUT to the whole story though–you know how that goes with targeted individuals–always some Deep State chicanery going on😂
So here is the “BUT”. On my first day of school, which was Tuesday 02/28, a lot of things went down. It was just one of those days. I wrote a separate post just for 02/28😂.
Among the things that happened that morning as I was getting ready to go to work, was that I transferred some money ($25) from my Apple Cash account to the same debit card I’ve designated for my QCC direct deposit. My plan was to deposit the $25 and then stop at a Deli on my way to work to withdraw $15 or even $20 from the ATM on my way to work– I’m old school, I prefer cash😂
I do the Apple Cash transactions very often with no problems, especially as I’m getting ready to go to work–money for coffee, subway ride etc. The app for my bank has a two-factor authentication feature so when I log in using my email, it will either send me an email with the 6 digit code, or text it to my phone. I usually prefer email. Works every time–no problems.
However on this eventful 02/28, I noticed that when I tried to log in, no email with the six digit code was getting sent to me. So I thought at first it was an email issue. I went and sent an email to this account using my separate email account(Yahoo). The yahoo email was received just fine so it clearly wasn’t an email issue.
So then the next thing I thought about was a possible glitch with the bank app, that was preventing “So then the next thing I thought about was a possible glitch with the bank app, that was preventing
So on Friday 02/07 as I was getting ready to go to work, I noticed that my YouTube tv bill had been paid using the card I’ve designated for QCC refund.😳 That can only mean that the deposit has come in because I purposefully keep that checking account low. I hide my money in the savings account, literally😂, and only move some to checking when I need it–TI stuff you’ll never comprehend😂
I also was able to transfer $25 from the same checking account to my Apple Pay this morning so all indications are that the refund has been deposited.
However, as for the actual amount that was deposited, or even what my actual balance is as of now, I have zero idea because I can’t log into my account.🙄 Somehow, the bank app is not sending a six digit code to my email–some tech “glitch” that just popped up last week. I’m not going to apportion any blame here but I will say this, there has been A LOT of chicanery over the years from this bank in question and the website hosting company that manages the email account in question. I’m just going to leave it at that.😂 I’ll call the bank and the website hosting company this weekend to find out what the hell has been going on with this two-factor authentication drama, and then share it here.
I’d also be remiss if I didn’t point out that one of the biggest complaints from targeted individuals, apart from the incessant stalking, is the constant hacking of their electronic devices and web spaces, and specifically, that it is infragard that illegally does such harassment. Is this just a legitimate tech glitch (no six digit code emailed) or is it just the latest attack by infragard on a TI?
Think about that, fresh from STEALING a targeted individual’s food stamps, now they lock him out of his college financial aid funds. None of these “problems” existed before they knew the financial aid $$ was on the way.🙄
Make no mistake about it, all part of the “negative blows”👇🤦
The good thing is, people are slowly but surely, catching on👇. So I’ll just wait for Deep State to to give me back access to my account whenever they feel like it.🙄 Remember, there was NO problem with the account login before they knew financial aid $$ was set to come in.🤔👇
A little bit too convenient, don’t you think?🤷 And speaking of “convenient”, the iphone where I have the said bank card stored for Apple Pay purchases just “mysteriously died” last Saturday on my way to school. I had to spend almost $300 on a new one. Jot that term folks– “negative blows”. You’ll run into it in the near future–hopefully a Church-type committee.🙏🙏