Still going...

Okay, now I'm hitting the edge. I just found out that the fees for being a student here are more now than ever. According to OSU we need to pay for the city bus (which I never use), a student activity fee (which I can't complain about b/c I actually use that), and now a higher rate for the new athletic facilities they just built... That fee used to be non-existant, then it went to $42, but now it's a whopping $78 every quarter!!! I don't even use these stupid facilities but I still have to pay for them. The thing that really burns my ass is that undergrads don't take the hit like grad students do b/c they have student loans that they can just tack the fees on to. However, since our tuition is paid for us, we grad students don't have student loans so the money comes straight out of our empty pockets. I was recently notified of a "raise" that we're getting at the end of October, but now given the hike in fee costs it's basically like we're getting nothing (or less than what we are getting now!) So all total, the fees will cost me $102 every quarter (which is only 10 weeks long), and taking into account that our raise would have only given us about $30 after taxes per month, I'd say we're getting stiffed. This sucks.