it's not like this is their job...

Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 06:29AM

By Eric Richardson

So today the spring installment of my National Merit scholarship came in. It's February 10, which means that it arrived pretty close to a month after school started. Now, I don't know exactly what processes are involved in actually getting these out, or even really who the money's coming from, but it would seem to me that if all you do is send out scholarship checks, you would make a point of being able to get them there around when school starts. That is usually when they're needed, after all.

On the plus side, I can head over to the cashiers office today and pick up a $1000 check. Last fall I used that check to buy my laptop. This time it'll be going largely toward paying some bills and paying off several hundred dollars worth of books I had to buy at the beginning of the semester.