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So, if you were wondering: I had redesigned the website completely from top to bottom, outside of the blogs of scrapheap (Until today, when I just redesigned the whole thing to remove the JS... kinda), now the question to ask is: Why did I do that? Well, for a lot of people, tht don't know, before I was doing anything on Neocities, I was actively paying a subscription for Adobe (Not by choice), and the idea was that just like how everyone thought of it at the time: if you just paid the amount you would be paying over time, would be worth it once you got to your big break, hoping to be successful or somewhat successful one day, IF someone was willing to give you that position. Problem with that was: As shown in my About(Me) page I had applied to Indepdnence University, which on the month when I was supposed to graduate, it had shut down, to which when I ended up transferring to another college, and ended up getting my degree at that college, that one shut down the year after I had graduated. Never in my life, was I ever filled with THAT much anxiety and worry for my future in my life, and because I legit thought the college was doing pretty well at that point (tl;dr, they didn't even send a notice to students until about a couple of weeks prior to its shut down that I recall. No actual notice, no email, no physical note in the mail, nothing.). When I had tried transferring from IU to other colleges at the time, I rememebr going through muttiple colleges, and seeing what I could get from the colleges at the time to potentially transfer too. Here's a comprehensive list of colleges and the stories of what I had to go through:

• Adademy of Arts University: (Originally I was going to make this very emotional, but I want to kind of make it less of that way, so I'll just, to the best of my ability sum up what happened here in this case) I would never recommend anyone to apply to this University, regardless of it's a top pick for you or not, I would 100% suggest you stay clear from going to this University altogether. I have had times to where I would call up a company, a college in this case, and even literal people before, and many calls I've had, don't even take a candle to what I'm about to share here. I don't know who this person is, I've never bothered to call these people back and at the time, I was literally on the verge of a mental breakdown becuause of what was going on, and this person was not making anything better in this case. I would call up this university numerous times, to explain my situation as clear, consice and as possible for them to understand, and every time I would try and do so, I would either get hunged up or was given nothing but straight vitriol to the person on the other side. This receptionist... I don't even know where to begin with this person, because at the time of writing even this, I don't know who the person is, I don't know what was going on with the person at the time, and I hope he's doing better than he was before, because it really seemed like the person behind the call was being a very spiteful human being for something that was going on in their lives that, they just refused to even acknowledge, and it got to the point that, when I was originally writing this, I looked back at this and went "FUCK THIS UNIVERSITY AND FUCK THAT PERSON!" but I want to take a different approach to this because, this approach I feel like would be more formal, and I don't want to stoop to this persons level. To start off, in the first time that talked to the person, to which I was so ridden with anxiety about to try and transfer my information, all I remember being told was to "Calm down" and to "Take it slow", to which at the time, he was right and fair in saying looking back at it, because i was 100% freaking out about what was going on.

What happened after this conversation was nothing but just a battle of this person, actively talking behind my back, saying some of the most mean spirited things behind my back, and when I tried to explain myself more fairly to this guy, even other receptionists, the guy had many mean things to say to me. Now to preface, I was at a time to where: I wasn't so sure of my future, and everything was seemingly looking bleak, because, the college I was originally planning to go to, had shut down. There was nothing I could ever do about that, and there wasn't much anyone could do about it, and it was so bad that: faculty and staff at the time weren't even sure of what to do next, other than to send emails, phone calls, texts to their students, some of which I still have saved to this day! But anyways, here are some of the excerpts I do remember from the conversation that I had with this guy in seperate conversations on, mind you, trying to get me enrolled to Academy of Arts University:

"That sounds like not our problem."

"(chuckes in the beginning in the call because I asked for his name) Yeah, Like I would like to give you my name bud"

"WE ARE NOT GOING TO ENROLL YOU INTO OUR COLLEGE! STOP FUCKING CALLING US!"

"Yeah-no, we're not about to enroll you!"

I did more research on the "university"... they're not really a university, they're a real estate company that tries to go above and beyond the state of San Fransisco, and when you end up applying for them Just like any other college, they'll make you go through tons of work, make you pay thousands of dollars, and make you overqualified for something that you can't even find a job for out in the market which is something you need to vet before going to college always and then toss you to the wayside when things don't go their way. Ngl, I dodged a fucking missile there, so I'm glad I ended up going to the college I ended up transferring to in the end, lol.

I would never lie about this kind of stuff, because... why would I lie about such a thing, like what would i gain from lying about this? it's been 4 years since the closure of Independence University and it's closure, so this would have been sometime around August-September of 2021 when this would have happened. If anything, I would 100% suggest to anyone that: if you want to go to college, you should always do your research on what college you go to, because even till then, the college I went to had a decent acceptance rate when I was going there, but when I checked the numbers on who was paying realistically, a vast majority of people were going on Default, me included, because I wasn't really given much choice since I had no job at the time, and even when I was trying to work, I could barely make enough money for me to have to go out of my way to pay off my debt, let alone live on my own.

• Liberty University: I was in contact with Lib. University as a second or third choice call, and was around the time to where I was legitimately considering this university as the next canidate for the college I wanted to go for. I had known about Liberity University when their ads were being spread all across the internet, on YouTube, on the Television back in the day when I was in high school... mind you high school for me as of now was about 10 years ago, as of writing this, I would have started my sophomore year around this time. So what happened with me and Lib.U. that made me not want to enroll completely at the time? Well, the receptionist was nice, she told me all the things that was going on, she did her research right away, and had even said that she was aware at that point of what was going on and was willing to enroll me into Liberty University. I did some research on Liberty University, and saw some of the videos that they have to this day, and was genuinely considering enrolling into Lib.U... until the receptionist told me about something that I could do mid enrollment that flipped everything about enrollment upside it's head. You see, I was told by this receptionist that: I could do an assignment for enrollment to Liberty University, that wouldn't go towards my grade, that I could just do, to pass the time.

The criteria of said assignment was...a bit dubious if you ask me. Tl;dr: Do the assignment, and:

• If you recieve a near 100% on the paper you could go ahead with the enrollment according to plan.

•...If you recieve a near 0% on the assignment on the paper, you would have to pay a $45 penalty towards your enrollment, that you would then have to pay out of pocket.

So, you can kinda see where this is going here, I decide to do the assignment, and I get I believe it was below that of a 20%, even though a lot of the messages about the rating at the time were about how knowledgable I was on graphic deisgn, which is what I studied... Didn't matter. I was going through calls about this with the receptionist, and I'll say it here I've had worse 'bouts of me being stupid, but being that I'm the spectrum, I can't help it, she basically said that: I knew what the consequences were of me doing the assignment, and why I should have taken it, and now I have to pay $45 to take the assignment, and if I wanted to take it, and fail again, I would have to pay the same amount again. After that point, I had decided that: this wasn't the college for me, and that I would block anything and everything in regards to having to get into contact with them, or even contacting said college ever again; I had emails from this college stating that I owed them $45 and I never responded to them. To this day, I have not contacted the University, and I refuse to ever get into contact with the University ever again.

• Southern New Hampsire University: I had contacted this one as like a... 3rd or 4th choice for a college transfer? Lately i've been hearing for the past year or two that they've been getting people to enroll to their school like a lot, but what ultimately made me not want to go to the college was their way of calling me and contacting me. I forget what it was, someone can tell me, but you know when you're calling someone, and the person on the other line is echo-y and there's a delay to it? My dad has told me what it was around that time directly, and I remember hearing about that and how that there could be many reaosns as to why someone would want to have that to keep contact with people, but one of the things my dad told me at the time was "The reason as to why this maybe the case with them is because, they more than likely do not have the money to give their own school personelle company phones." and what I did remember one time was that receptionist said something along the lines of "Yeah, and I don't think you should judge us for that, since it's not our fault."... [insert cringeface here], I really saw that and really doubted going to that college at the time. I do believe they have made more strides in making more money in this case, and have gotten school personelle company phones, something better to work with but... you could literally just work with peoples phones, everyone has a personal cell, you could literally just treat your personal cell as your work cell now in days, there's no harm or rhyme of reason to not do this...

Here are some honorable mentions when it came to college around the time I was in college on choices I could have taken!

• Bloomfield College: Originally Bloomfield College, Now Bloomfield College of Montclair State University, was actually going to be my first choice of a college that I wanted to go to, but I ended up not going. Reason being that, I ended up moving in with my dad around mid 2018, and didn't want to stay with my blood mother, to which around that time, I had turned 18, a fully grown legal adult! There's a lot I could actually add to that, but that's not what this is about, so I'll talk about that another time. Last I had gotten anything from that college was with a professor at the time, to where they were congradulating me on going to the college, to which I had to explain my situation to them and they told me to have a great life, as they were very much understanding of my position about this. By around the time I would have graduated from IU, Bloomfield College was also about to shut down, but then later on got saved by Montclair State College, not that far from it, to which, I'm glad I didn't choose BCoMSU, because I would have had to pay an upwards of $1M USD in student loans from that college, to which in contrast, from IU, I would have only had to pay about $45k USD in loans (and that price is rising as we speak, to which... I can't pay... nor should anybody expect me too at this point, since i can't find a way to even feed myself properly.).

• Full Sail University: I actually used to live about a couple of blocks away from Full Sail at one point. Around the time I was enrolled into IU, I was living in the Dominican Republic, and I had managed to move from there to Orlando for... other reasons, and my dad, while what I was hearing down the grapevine was that, some students around my area around that time were liking FSU, and said I should transfer there. I said no, I didn't want to, I liked going to IU more, because I get to be at home while I worked on my assignments. This was at a time to where, we were living on the first floor, and I was having to suffer from issues of what it was like to be poor in that home 24/7, since at that apartment, we didn't do much of anything at all, other than watch videos on our computers, phones, eat, and head to bed. My dad was very upset, and when I mean upset, I mean upset about the fact that I wasn't in college and working at the same time, but then would be bipolar and say "I don't want you to work and go to college, that's too much stress I'm putting onto you.", to which he even said on multiple points that "I should have done trucking, it would have been easier on you." and we found out about a couple of weeks ago that, no, it wouldn't have, it's not worth it. We had a Lyft ride with a person one time, telling us about gas and propane, and one moment he had mentioned that he was living in Vegas at one point, and was a trucker, and now being a trucker isn't worth it since the pay isn't great, the percentages are not so great, and people just stay in those jobs, sit there for weeks at a time and quit. Now in days, I look back at that and go "I don't want to be apart of that time again, those times were not so great for us, and we legitimately had no room or space to do whatever it was that we wanted. We at least got to be a family, but there wasn't really much to add to it other than that.". We went to Disney in Orlando for a full straight year... I don't want to think about that to be completely honest, it was great, but I've had some... not so great memories of going there while growing up, that I don't think I wanna recite just yet.

This is to only add about FSU that: When I was playing Destiny when it was coming out back when I was in high school, I really did not like The Taken King. I liked the premise of The Taken King, about how he has his own hivemind like power to take the corpses of a million dead enemies that the player has killed to be apart of his own army, yet everything was a reskin of old enemies I've taken out before, so there wasn't really much to tTT's story other than "Arg-Me Angry At Player!". Bungie should have never given Halo to 343 I feel like, they should have kept it, Because now that it's in the hands of Microsoft, I legit cannot play Destiny, or even Destiny 2, and I don't ever plan on getting the Master Chief Collection anytime soon. The limits I have now for Halo are: 1, 2, 3, and Reach; that's it. It's not preferencial treatment, they were just that good to begin with, and everything after reach with either under the hands of 343, or Microsoft are just not the same to me. I have tried to play 4, 5, and even Infinite when it hit beta testing, day of, and I cannot play that shit for the life of me.

*Bit of and end note here as I'm editing the Blog Post for this month, a lot of the reviews you see about FSU now in days, from my understanding since the very beginning were 100% doctered. What I remember back in high school is that, they would actively send ads on youtube and facebook back in the day at the time (this was like 10 years ago at this point), and just auto plug in your own information, and one time I did sign up for them at the time when I was in high school, and when I, stupidly I may add, said I was in high school, they said that they were going to "follow up" in 3 years with me on my application, they never did. If a University or Organization is sending out ads to get you to apply for their shitty University Courses, then that should tell you that their courses are not worth the time or effort to even apply. This isn't always the case however, in some cases, they do it because of other reasons, but FSU's reasoning was just so they can pull up numbers and while this isn't like the armed forces to where: they need people to keep the US Defenses up in check and you can gain something out of it for a lifetime in this case, FSU and other colleges like it, don't really provide anything to students outside of a lifetime supply of Student Loan Debt, and no job or work potential in the near future. I may make a video on this in the future, but just to let you know, if you're going to college because you hope you may make it big, you're going to college for all the wrong reasons. This isn't me putting you down as you're reading this, and crushing your dreams, this is me saying as an adult: I've been to college, as you're about to read this further, I've been through the workforce for years, and neither of them have worked out for me. Take it from someone like me, and the expeirence that I have, and not just whatever fucking faggot on Reddit tells you.

• Perdue University: My dad is a dropout of Perdue University, he got his associates a couple of years ago. He was telling me a lot of great things about Perdue, but then said that "It's important to do your research on what online colleges you want to go to, but there's nothing wrong with Perdue, It's gonna be hard, but I think it would be a good choice.". The college is still around to this day, and as of posting this, I didn't go to it, and kinda wish that I did. IU shut down, and the next college I'm about to discuss shut down after the fact. I'm not salty on the fact that I didn't go, more... wise on the idea of what I know to be a sinking ship, with a captain about to jump overboard on his own motorboat.

By the time that IU shut down, they were telling me to go to: Miami International University of Art and Design, and when I first decided to transfer, I was skeptical at first, because the enroller was rude to me at first, and then when I tried the second time (Yes, I was so worried that I enrolled a second time because I thought I was gonna go to Liberity University, until they pulled that $45 scam on me.), the first time made me skeptical was because one of the receptionists told me that, because I hadn't gotten my transcripts that I would have to "do all of the four years of college all over again." and by the time I did, everything was fine, but they had to transfer the credits, and get me to the proper teachers that were in correlation to the credits I had gotten at that time, which was... something if you ask me, because the process went from beginner classes that I actually enjoyed for once, because they were teaching me intersting things and enjoyable things that I wasn't taught at my previous college, to Immediately switching classes to me out of the blue because those college courses didn't align with my line of credit that I had obtained throughout the years I was in IU for... anyways, there's a lot that I could say about this, because when I had graduated from MIU, believe it or not, I got an average score from graduating college, which was a 3.0 GPA, which is a C average across all grades.

It's funny to look at it now, and to see that my previous scores were about around a 4 GPA, and even lower, and one time I had gotten a paper from the mail from IU at the time, to which I still have to this day, that said I made it to Honor Roll in College, with a 3.2 GPA average. It's not like, the biggest thing, but I can tell you that at the time, beginning me in college was not how I was like in later me college, as I really fucking hated the later years of me being in MIU, and even questioned where the younger me was at when I loved going to school...

Now I know you're wondering: What happened to the colleges I went to? Well, Indenpendence University went through many scandals in it's passed, from a lot of the presidents committing acts that I was not aware of until after the closure, to Miami International... shutting down because of finances I believe... What I remember researching, which you can readibly look up online is that:

• Independence University: had shut down because the first presedient was extorting students out of their own money to get good grades (essentially the students would go out of their way to contact the president for years, saying that their teacher was bad, and that they'll do anything to get good grades, only for the president to come up and give them a dollar amount, fire the teacher, and everyone in the class would get an A+... which looking back at it, kind of explains why in the coming years, a lot of students after going to IU would cry in Reviews on the internet at the time about how their teacher was just a bad teacher, even I had bad teachers at the time coming from that school and MIU...), the second president got into legal trouble under the state court of representatives over in Colorado, committing what I would assume anyways is: Fasfa fraud, and by the time we got to the third president, the damage had already been done, so he lasted a couple of months, and couldn't do anything with IU to begin with, so it had shut down (I'm not going to source them, that's all over in the sources part of their wikipedia page).

With Miami International University of Art and Design,I could not tell you what happened with that college for the life of me. all I remember being told at the time was that, they had shut down because of "financial reasons" and were losing a lot of money from keeping the place up, and it's not to say that I have no doubt that, that isn't the case, but with what happened with IU... idk, what matters the most to me is that, I got my degree, I backed it up with the transcripts that I have from IU and MIU and that's all that matters.

Independence University shut down on August 1st of 2021, and Miami International University shut down on September 30th of 2023. From my memory, the only loans I had ever gotten in full were from IU, so they had shut down before I could graduate, and I never got any loan charges by MIU, other than a PPL (Parent Plus Loan) to help kinda apease the Loan debt that I owe when I transfered, but other than that, legit nothing is going to be done with that, especially with the life position that I'm in currently. Anything in regards to loans with me is so bad that, I was told that there was "Nothing I could do about the loans" and to "Wait until after graduating to deal with it." by one of my financial aids in MIU, to which said aid even mocked me and made fun of me, and told me that "I should have been worried about that in my first year of college.", not even joking, and this is to be completely honest right...I straight up feel like after I had graduated college, that like I was robbed, I was tricked, and I was left losing everything, because, I had little to no guidance on what do up to this point, because no one guided me, helped me, or even understands the plight I was tricked into getting into, all because I was told back in school to go to college, because that's where I'll "succeed" apparently, but where I'm at right now in life, 100% is not success.