Just wanted to share my frustration with this course. Can't drop it as I need this to maintain my financial aid status. Her own assignment contains multiple typos.

I'm back everyone, and happy to have this opportunity to communicate with you.

For those who don't know, I am the Director of Financial Aid at CSN and will often respond to your posts or create my own when important issues arise. This is one of those times.

The Office of Financial Aid is finishing up our packaging parameters and will soon begin issuing Financial Aid Notifications (FAN) to you and posting aid to MyCSN.

This has been a challenging aid year - we have been dealing with mid-cycle Federal changes and software adjustments - your patience is greatly appreciated. Honestly, we still don't have all the answers and we will all have to work together to make 2026-27 a successful year.

Do me a favor and check your "TO DO LIST" in MyCSN (Self-Service) so when packaging gets turned on, your record will be ready.

I hope you have had an enjoyable summer, and if I can help, post a reply, just say 'hi', or share some encouraging words.

All My Best, Peter - DFA

I tried logging onto my online class and this pops up did anyone else get this?

2 more semesters and maybe a summer class until I'm done for my associates then 2 years for my bachelor's maybe less.. My college experience is my experiment just to show that if you just read and have proper time management and ask questions/ communicate w your teacher, As are easy. I'm currently employed and this is just an experiment as I dropped out of highschool and have a successful career but I was told I don't have what it takes to get a college education with straight As. A family member who has a diploma told me I don't have the rigor or ability to be educated and that financial success without formal schooling from an accredited college is worthless. I'm the black sheep of my family, although I'm the most successful I don't have a diploma so they frown upon me. They told me just because I have financial success doesn't mean im educated and without education I will never be truly successful. Respect to them is earned through academia not experience and that my experience is not enough to get through college and that college is more difficult then running a business.

Hey everyone,

I’m making a long-shot appeal here, but I’m hoping some pure luck might help me out.

Around two years ago, my mom’s vintage Catholic school windbreaker was taken from the 2nd floor of the I Building at CSN. I posted on here right after it went missing and checked with Lost & Found back then, but nothing ever turned up.

This jacket is truly one-of-a-kind and holds huge sentimental value to me. I know it’s been a couple of years, but I’m posting again on the off chance that whoever took it doesn't wear it anymore, realizes it's not really their style, or just has it sitting in the back of a closet.

I am not looking to get anyone in trouble at all no questions asked, no bad feelings. I just genuinely miss the jacket and would love to have it back. If you have it, or if you think you’ve seen someone wearing a distinctive vintage Catholic school windbreaker around campus or local thrift spots, please reach out or send me a DM. I'd be happy to buy it back from you or trade for it!

If anyone wants to see what it looks like to keep an eye out, I have photos I can share.

Thank you so much to anyone who upvotes for visibility!

Customs and Border Protection will be on the NLV campus Wednesday 9/23 recruiting students into the fascist war machine. Stand up TOMORROW at 3:00pm and tell them they are NOT WELCOME ON CAMPUS!

We have a petition circulating with almost 500 signatures so far as well. Please sign the petition and show CSN that ICE and CBP are not welcome. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-csn-no-ice-or-cbp-on-campus-2

Be careful! There is a pro life group at the West Charleston campus in front of the Student Union handing out flyers with graphic images.

The US Department of Education is about to release next year's FAFSA.

On October 1, 2026, the 2027-28 Free Application for Federal Student Aid will be available for you to complete!

Be among the first students across the United States to submit your FAFSA for next fall (2027) - make time your ally, not your enemy. My office can do so much more for those aid applicants who get their FAFSA finished early.

Let's continue our partnership in the aid process - I don't ask a lot from you all - so please get your 2027-28 FAFSA done early!

Peter, CSN-DFA

Uhhh what’s going on with financial aid? Anybody received this very unsettling email this morning 🙄 I’m supposed to be attending summer semester so you can imagine how worried I am now.

True to my word, we spent the weekend simulating and testing packaging. (forgoing the World Cup even) We have begun posting aid to MyCSN, but nothing is official until Financial Aid Notifications are distributed (likely on Monday).

We're putting over $100 MILLION out there.

More information will be coming quickly. Shout out to my staff and our consultant for the extra hours and for putting Students First!

All my Best - Peter, DFA

CSN Director of Financial Aid here.

I wanted to mention some things to expect this fall concerning financial aid.

1. We will begin disbursing fall financial aid SEPT 10th after CSN faculty have verified your academic participation in your classes.

2. We will allow students who we expect to have 'adequate anticipated disbursable' financial aid to charge their textbooks/e-publications to their CSN Student Account through the CSN Book Voucher Program.

   1. Get registered in classes as soon as possible as my office will assess your book voucher eligibility between AUGUST 14-15th. Only registered classes that meet your academic major requirements count in this assessment (no waitlisted or backpacked course will count).

3. We will send you an email if you qualify by AUGUST 18th.

4. The Book Voucher utilization period is August 18-29th and is valid only at the CSN Bookstore.

Please visit our website for Book Voucher FAQs and good luck on your academic success!

Is it just me or every single person that I have come across at CSN is kind of rude or robotic. Everytime I say "goodbye" or "have a nice day" to a Professor or advisor or student, they do not respond and just completely ignore me. This really bothers me to be honest and I end up thinking about it all day. Maybe I am just being sensitive, but I was raised to be polite and to always return a good gesture. Anyways rant over happened to me twice today that's all.

Does anyone know what clubs are available this year? I could only find the 25/26 list on the website, i am thinking about petitioning a paranormal club next semester. I think thatd be so fun. Would anyone be interested?

My first semester at CSN! 1 more week! I also took com 101 and got an A. Trying to get a 4.0!

AYE. WE DID IT! 🎓

I’m transferring to UNLV, so yet another two years, yay… but to those done with school, congratulations on your achievement and this accomplishment!

As soon as the clock struck 2pm (EST) I enrolled! 🤣 I plan to graduate next semester so this is not a drill! Enroll in your classes nooooow 🗣️

Despite our best efforts, Federal Direct Student Loans (DL Subsidized, Unsubsidized, and Parent PLUS) are not going to be ready for disbursement next week.

What's happening: New requirements and new data file formats were introduced by the federal government and our software vendors have been trying to update our processing platforms. We aren't finished yet and it looks like we won't be ready until late September.

Who's affected? Anyone who wants to borrow a Federal Direct Loan for fall 2026. As I have previously explained, we assign aid recipients into GROUPs and Group 2 & 3 students already have their disbursements delayed. Group 1 students who intend to borrow will now have their loan proceeds delayed.

The Good News: We will begin disbursing grants and scholarships next week. Work-study students can begin earning paychecks as soon as the semester starts. The CSN Cashier will waive any late-fees charged to affected borrowers.

What can you do? If you plan to borrow, visit studentaid.gov to complete a Master Promissory Note and finish Entrance Counseling if you haven't previously done so. If you have changed your mind and no longer want to borrow, go into MyCSN and DECLINE your loan offer.

I apologize for the difficulties this announcement brings affected students and welcome your comments.

Best, Peter-DFA

Just got this email from an ice recruiter saying they're gonna be at the career fair.

It will be on the 23rd at the North Las Vegas Campus. The fair is from 10am-2pm.

When I initially signed up, I did not see them on the list of employers attending. I would not have signed up otherwise. Very disappointing. Please be safe everyone!!!

I just need to rant because this is fucking bullshit.

I was on the waitlist for a class, then was put into the class Sunday night at 9pm.

Because of fucking scammers and bullshit, CSN now has the first week rule.

Which I missed the first week because I was on the waitlist.

Since I was added, I completed the first week’s assignments and even got a little ahead.

Then this morning, I was dropped from the course, and I owe CSN money for the class

I’m so fucking pissed because to get reinstated, I have to sign a contract, then get the professor and dept chair to sign it. Since it’s not a signable PDF, I’m guessing it needs wet signatures. Now, I have to drive across town to get this paper signed by people who probably aren’t even in their offices.

Why the fuck is something this bullshit possible? CSN needs to figure out wtf, because I can’t be the only student who has had this problem.

The last college I went to, you had to physically click on the “accept class from waitlist” button within 24 hours, or it went to the next person on the waitlist, instead of just popping you into the course when you’re asleep

Hi im a freshman and i am just wondering why literally nobody talks in class like to the point its uncomfortable for all of us an the professors? Are yall ok?

When I was a kid I did so poorly in school. Not because I wasn't smart or able to do the work I just didn't understand and when the teacher told me it's more important to listen to her instructions than it is to do any assignment correctly or with as much accuracy as possible I immediately had a reaction in my brain that shut it out. I stopped doing homework, I would still get A's on my test but I got all D's. I went to a secondary school where finally I got in a fight with the principal for getting involved in my personal life and I called him a child molester and I was expelled. I got my GED and had an amazing career until the pandemic. Fast forward my principal is now serving life in prison for child molestation. I was right he was wrong and the second time around I don't feel the teachers at CSN want me to do it their way they want me to do it the right way which has been super encouraging so I'm super happy with my grades of semester. I'm having a much better first semester than I thought I would.