In which our corporate overloads fuck over my scholarship

[highlyeccentric]

So USyd has co-branded its student cards with ANZ BANK, of all things, this year. Your student card is now a pre-paid credit card! So you can use it to buy things! Which, y'know, you could do with your ACTUAL VISA OR MASTERCARD DEBIT CARD GIVEN TO YOU BY YOUR ACTUAL BANK WHICH ALL BANKS DO NOW AND ALSO NOT ALL OF THEM CHARGE YOU *UTTERLY RIDICULOUS FEES* which is what ANZ do if you top up your pre-paid student card thing anywhere off campus or use it to buy things in foreign currency.

Result: student cards are now printed by ANZ. So you don't get them when you enrol. You get them "7-10 days later" (am currently up to thirteen days and counting).

You can get a non-branded student card, but not until you've had your ANZ one delivered, presumably so that our coporate overlords aren't disadvantaged by anyone demonstrating efficiency or anything.

OH AND I NEED A STUDENT CARD IN ORDER TO GET MY SCHOLARSHIP PAID.

Thanks for fuckery, USyd.