So...I moved 8 hours away from my hometown (NYC) in order to attend a wonderful graduate school for social work. It has been a nightmare since I've arrived here. My apartment has been a hot mess, I am literally lost all the time, I haven't had a decent night's sleep, and my new neighbors are not friendly AT ALL. The only thing that has made this process bearable is my FI, without him, I think I would have lost it within the first four days of coming here.
During my application process to this school, none of the admissions officers told me that I had to have a car in the city, in fact, they told me that the public transportation was reliable. I believed them. They also stated that it would not affect my field placement throughout my time there. I was given a few options for field placements, and I thought that I had found the perfect placement involving community treatment support, which is up my alley.
Today, I traveled to an interview to my "perfect" placement (it was a hellish ordeal because I had no idea where I was going direction-wise). The interview went great, but I realized something was off. When I went to give the interviewer the placement confirmation form, he said, I want your team manager to sign it. Then the interviewer said that he'd get back to me by Monday with information, because the only reason I'd be eliminated was because I don't drive/have a car. I brushed it off until I got an email from my school's field placement advisor asking if I was offered the position and if I had the form signed. Clearly I did not obtain the position, and now I feel duped. I wasted my time, my energy, and I am feeling drained at this point. I don't know where to go from here, or what I should tell my field placement advisor because his ideas for other placements didn't really seem to match my skill sets or would not provide me with the learning experience I want to gain while here.
Sorry for the rant. I just needed to get this off my chest before I took it out on anyone.