Is the CCSF concept finished now ?

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Perhaps I'll give up on the concept of going to CCSF ~ Bluntly , if no one here will try and arrange the " ride and a shoulder " I've asked for the back me up ~ and transport my CRIPPLED ! self ~ It's just not meant to be .
There's also no one trying to help me with the , even MORE not do-able on my own , filling out the school admittence forms and aid applications . There's just absolutely no way ni the f*****g world I can do that alone . PERIOD .
I am in that 2nd shelter I last mentioned now , I have no privacy in my room and I have insufficient light to read and so on ~ I had seen going to CCSF as a " sensible " buld-up to going to uni , full residential " normal " college , in a year-and-three-quaters , say , perhaps in Washington or Oregon (Or maybe those places mentioned in that NYT article that offer AS programs ? However , bluntly , would they much want a crippled old Aspie geek/at best , Santa Claus look-alike , like me ? Probably not ??? ) - If there's any hope - Or maybe as a last-ditch " before-I-die " thing - maybe I could be in somewhere greener (And have the option of coming crawling back to SF if things don't work out , as was the case in 2015 - Of course , if Trump cuts off $ to sanctuary cities , SF may have less largesse to spread around .

...Bluntly , my physical state has me wondering whether I can ever go to uni ~ Or even " full " CC ?
At least with the degree of care/housing I am likely to receive anywhere , bar a previously-unknown-to-me auntie/Gramma coming along who cares about me even a little .
A long story ~ A couple years back , I came into a windfall ~ I bought some CDs , I think some pubs , too...and sent up Northwest , where I thought I might move to then .
After one friend had them for a while , he passed them on to someone else- older - who told me that she could get them tranferred/burned onto a MP3 player , which I had provided .
Breifly , the 2nd person then backed down from this , saying she could not find anyone to burn them onto a MP3 . I don't understand this- EVERYONE , more or less , is in " the modern world " - But when I try to get into it just a little bit more , I am denied admittance ~ There are numerous others in the shelter I am in now with smartphones who evidently know how to work them well ~ Not I , however ~ When I begged and pleaded for help in improving my tech knowledge here ~ NOT FOR MONEY OR GIFTS , just to improve my knowledge ~ No one would help me
And now with my pleas for help in registering for CCSF and applying for financial aid and going to the All-In-One , some uncle-ly/big brother-ly help taking me along

...The idea was that I'd , somehow , start full uni a year-and-three-quarters from now ~ Now , maybe that is not to be .
Now , maybe all I can expect is getting up to the NW where those CDs are , and listening to them a few times before dying (Pretentious metaphor time) the Promised Land of uni never to be mone , perhaps I commi0tted some sin that ruled me out ???
What I'd desired for so many years ...

You're a smart guy.

Just get a steady room. Make sure you shower often, and wear clean clothes.

And you won't have to drag that "ball and chain" around.

If you know how to type, you can fill in the application.

Just take the BART, then the 43 bus to the 3 in One.

You can do it!

problem is he needs a private place to flop with a shower he can use and a laundry. those 3 things would go 90% of the way to getting him where he wants to be, but absent those things the road is a LOT STEEPER. all the SROs are gone, unfortunately.

...The lack of my money is a great deal now , too --- Remember , I have NOT had my check come in ALL of last month , with the outfit who is my payee LYING TO ME about " Oh , we'll send you a new card " TWICE over the last mo-nth --- Now , as of now , the chack for December is not in either , as well as the Novemeber chack that never came in --- and the payee is now saying that my card has been turned off (due to this " if you don't access it at least once every 30 days " clause , the so I don't know what I could get out of the THIRD " oh , sure , we'll send you a new card " (that they claimed they'd do last week - That's aftere the two , earlier , lying did-not-sends ) even if it had come to-day - which it DIDN'T ! !! !! !! !! !!
No , KK . There is no way I can fill out college application , and grant application , forms on my own .
It is simply not possible .
Those things are not written for civilians to know how to do them even IF they have their records all handy (I don't) and aren't emotionally scarred by the College-Industrial Complex 's repeated spitting in their face (I AM ) .
Certainly not old ones .
I tend to thinkk that any citations of colleges near me are of other colleges , not of interest to me (Like a fairly high-ranking law school in the Tenderloin) - Or , there is one CCSF office near-ish me - which was offputt-ish to me before I exstablished a little contact with someone from CCSF by E-mail . But not now anymore .
(Incidentally , the crappy AT&T phone I had is gone now , it fell victim to the check not coming in - Having that much " normality " had helped me a little with contacting the CCSF-er .)

He had a room like that, Blabby.

He has a private room, with a shower in the hall.

...If you mean the Civic Center , (as I question whether you've known me much at any other time when I've had a room at any length of time - It was a " stabilization " room , provided by the City , free and with me having no tenant rights , as I know I did say then , not a " retail " go-up-and-pay SRO room which there are indeed few of now and which my REAL difficulties with climbing up stairs now would make a problem for me anyway , most " real " SRO paces would have at least some considerable stair-climbing part I think , at least to initially walk in , say , even if there was a elevator from the check-in level to higher) remember , I did have the " lead " problems and the " klieg light problems " - and the fact is , they have - Somewhat , though not completely . - gone away/reduced since I left there , though there still is some , I think averse effect to me from whatever the present shelter has (Which is something I believe I did write about in 2015-6 when I went on my first round through them anyway) , and I did have some bedazzlement when I went out to-day , in full sun , after manymanymany hours in the windowless present shelter - In my several-roomates room , where , incidentally , a couple roomies were doing cocaine , or something else involving sucking it and pushing it up the nostril a coupla nights ago .
I believe someone who disliked me from a previous shelter bitching about me having discernable poop stains on my underwear was what got me tossed out of the Civic Center - This was someone who said " You're a disgusting human being , you Motherf***er ! " or similar .
I had discernable poop stains on my pants , yes ~ Which I was fully clothed in , with both shirt and pants on , fully covered - Because of my digestive circumstances that force(d) me to have to go again and again ! As I wrote about here when I was still there . My digestive/eliminative problems , WHICH I HAVE OUTLINED ALREADY , led to me having to go back and forth to the toilet over the course of a morning/afternoon dressing before going out there !
I didn't have a toilet in my room so I had to go back and forth !
Furthermore , that particular day may have been while I was waiting for the replacement card to come in , IIRC , when the situation with the lost card wasn't as bad as it was going to get ~ I was anticipating getting new underwear , etc. , with the November money ~ WHICH I HAVE NEVER RECEIVED .

As for you not getting your money card, I very much hope you can find someone, maybe a social worker, who can help you get your money card back ... with all the money that you're supposed to have coming to you. It definitely sounds like you're not being treated fairly. To put it mildly ... I could say far more about it, but the overall picture is that these are evil times we're living in, and you're suffering because of it, and it's just not right.

...I spend HOURS AND HOURS lying abed , unable to get to sleep ~ Doing nothing - Just wasting my life away I don't have a phone , even , or something else to distract me with .

Walter, I've given you all of the locations of City/Community Colleges in SF. You can have a look at that link whenever you like and choose the one that is closest to you. You have limited computer time, so please spend it wisely. Look at that link and decide which location(s) are closest for you to travel. You walk up to the General Delivery every day to check your mail, so you can physically go places. There are also options for discounted and free public transportation. The fact is that you may need to use public transportation, as there may not be lifts+ available when you need them. It's as easy as sitting down and waiting for your stop to come, then a short walk to your destination from the bus/train stop.

As I have said over PM, there is a City/Community College at 1170 Market St. You were previously staying at 1098 Market St., so you should be able to get to 1170 Market St.

Can you tell me where your current shelter is? That way, I'll know where is the closest CC to you.

Please don't keep making excuses. There are lots of paperwork to fill out, yes, but there should be people at the college who can help you with that, if they're helpful in any way. What you may need to do - and remember, time is of the essence - is physically make your way to the college and ask. You can go places. If this college thing is important to you, you CAN make it to 1170 Market St. Don't make excuses, please just go there. They (if they're helpful in any way) will help you fill out all of the forms.

I don't know what else to say. Not everything can be done from a computer... If you're bored lying in your bed all day at the shelter, then get out there and go to 1170 Market St. on weekday business hours. The college should be open (unless it's closed for holidays) and they should be able to help you.

From the General Delivery, there are 2 colleges within about a 10 minute walking distance or 10-15 minute bus/train distance. Maybe someone can print out these directions or you can write them down on a piece of paper:

College at 1170 Market Street - Walking:

Head west on Ellis St toward Jones St
82 ft

Turn left onto Jones St
0.3 mi

Turn right onto Market St
College will be on the right
0.2 mi

1170 Market St. - Public transport:

Head west on Ellis St toward Jones St
82 ft

Turn left onto Jones St
344 ft

Turn right onto Eddy St
Destination will be on the left (Eddy St & Jones St.)

At Eddy St. & Jones St, catch the Balboa 31 Ferry Plaza bus, 4 stops, 5 minutes
Service run by SFMTA

Get off at Market St. & 4th St.

Catch the Haight-Parnassus
6 Quintara + 14th Avenue bus
4 stops 5 mins
Service run by SFMTA

Get off at Market St. & Hyde St. and the college should be on your right.

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College at 88 4th Street - Walking:
(0.4miles) Head east on Ellis St toward Taylor St
(0.1mile) Continue onto 4th St
College will be on the right

88 4th Street - Public transport:

Head west on Ellis St toward Jones St
82 ft

Turn right onto Jones St
344 ft

Turn right onto O'Farrell St
Destination will be on the right
292 ft

Walk to O'Farrell St & Taylor St
3 mins, 0.1 mi

At O'Farrell St & Taylor St, catch the Geary 38 Transbay Terminal Bus
2 stops 4 mins
Service run by SFMTA

Get off at O'Farrell St & Grant Ave

Head west on O'Farrell St toward Stockton St
226 ft

Turn left onto Stockton St
341 ft

Turn left onto Ellis St
98 ft

Continue onto 4th St
College will be on the right
0.1 mi

I believe the All in One occurs only at the campus located near the Balboa BART station. I'll have to make sure this is so.

I hope ASS-P can secure a room so he can pursue this. I hope he can help get his health stabilized, so he doesn't cough in the classroom.

The social workers might think he's, at least, doing something rather than just lying around if he starts to attend CCSF. So they'll be more inclined to help him with housing.

ASS-P, until you can maintain clean clothing and body daily, CC is going to be out of the question. You cannot attend classes with others with poop on your clothing and the solution is not to just buy and throw out underwear. It's to wash your underwear and body daily.

Highest priority for you, of course is now money, accessing your funds and a social worker is going to have to assist you with that (seems like).

When you get the $ and housing situation handled, see the people in the office at CC that helps disabled students and assists with accommodations for testing. There should also be a financial aid office where someone can assist you in filling out the financial aid forms. They won't do it for you, but they'll assist you with questions you have.

I'm also checking regarding this. Just waiting to hear back from someone. I don't think he needs the All-In-One, as he most likely wouldn't be attending the main campus anyway, it's too far to travel. The most logical scenario is that a staff member at the campus closest to him can sign him up there, help him fill out all of the forms, and whatever else he needs. It just doesn't make sense that the only physical location to sign up is the main campus, when there are plenty of campus' all around SF. Some within about 10 minutes walking from where Walter is.

I agree with whoever is saying he needs a good social worker. It seems he may not have one anymore, hence why he's doing all of this stuff on his own. A good social worker would have had his card back by now.

...I have been having HORRIBLE trouble with this computer ~ just as with life in general ~ But: the All-In-One was to make , in one visit: (1) the lengthy required tests forRemedial/Bonehead English and Math ,(2) the actual signing up and (3) the counseli0ng after that all in one day .
Whether in one bit or two , I was told I VERY much needed it .
A moth back or so , when I was first asking about a ride and a shoulder to A-I-O , the idea was to SIGN UP then , to be able to do it in January , LATER .