Last year a dean promised me a scholarship if I would work for her department. Well I started work and for the past five weeks have been asking where the scholarship is. She wouldn't talk about it at all over email and waited to tell me in person that she couldn't do it anymore. I tried to confirm our meeting over email but she responded in a different email with no mention of it. That's when I realized she's been purposely evasive in the emails so she could outright deny it if she couldn't get me the scholarship. That's when I quit. The scholarship was why I felt financially stable enough to go back to school. Now I'm fucked. If you are making big decisions based off of promises employers haven't met yet make damn sure you get a paper trail.