Filling Out Forms

Well, what I did not consider when I dropped out of college is how awful and annoying it is to fight your way through the jungle of bureaucracy.

I ended up applying at four different universities for four slightly different combinations of subjects over the weekend. And I literally spent hours on filling out forms.

Filling out forms. Uch. I mean, there's different kinds of forms. Some are fun to fill out, because they are like little quizzes and it makes you happy that you actually know all the answers.

But then there's those really long, long forms that take hours to fill out and ask the same questions over and over again in different ways. They are annoying, because you have to write so much and concentrate hard so you won't forget anything or check the wrong little boxes. But they are still easy to deal with.

And then there's the kind of forms that are incredibly long, but also incredibly confusing, because some morone created them and didn't think.
Those are bad. They contain all kinds of questions that you just don't know how to answer. So you end up surfing the internet for hours, trying to find instructions, which is usually unsuccessful and in the end you start calling people, who tell you to call other people. So you call them and they tell you:

a) ... to call someone else.

b) ... that they have no idea what you're talking about.

c) ... please leave a message after the signal... peeep.

d) ... that it really doesn't matter what you put down there, because some morone made up the form and they don't even know what he wanted to hear.

I personally hate making those calls. But sometimes these phone calls pay of, let me tell you. While filling out one of those confusing forms in order to apply for one of the universities I ended up calling someone, who told me that I didn't have to fill out the form at all! Cany ou believe it? It kind of made me like that university a lot.

Over and Out, Nio