How Research Works: 38

THE VENDING MACHINES- 5PM

MIKE
Did you sign your work study form?

IKE
Yep.  I now owe the department 88 hours of office service.  Which they will demand when I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown I'm sure.

MIKE
Funny how that works.  We aren't allowed to enroll in summer classes, which prevents us from applying for loans, which means we end up owing the department time served.

IKE
I think we can enroll in summer classes.  We'd just have to pay tuition... thus eliminating the point of the loans.  Its a catch-22.  Just not the good, literary, kind.

MIKE
Its like we're indentured servants or something.

IKE
You say as you pay for a candy bar sold by the University with a debit card supplied by the University attached to an account that contains money given to you by the University.