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- <h1>Paying my first term's tuition</h1>
- <p>Day 00599: Wednesday, 2016 October 26</p>
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- <a href="http://www.uopeople.edu/">University of the People</a> seems to only take online payments via PayPal, so that's how I payed them for this term.
- They also take Western Union wire transfers, but while PayPal is highly shady, Western Union seems somehow even more shady.
- I could be misjudging them though.
- In any case, PayPal has no business knowing my legal name, so I of course gave them my real name instead.
- PayPal must have communicated the name that I payed under to University of the People.
- There shouldn't be any issues, but with my luck, there could be major problems.
- The best case scenario is that University of the People's system isn't programmed to notice or care.
- The most likely situation is that they do notice, but assume that I borrowed someone else's credit card with permission.
- The worst case scenario is that they'll refund the fee and demand that I pay another way.
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