I am the financial aid coordinator and VA Certifying Official at a campus of a major public research university in Pennsylvania. I have held my current position since 1998 and prior to that I worked at the local community college for nine years. At the community college, I coordinated services, including help with financial aid, for our disabled students and taught GED prep courses. My entire career in higher education has been spent deep in the world of financial aid. I read mistermix’s original post on financial aid and found some of it completely fair and some of it really off from my own experiences. Here is my response to his post.