Judging from the fact that every page load on studentaid.gov is taking about 30 seconds, I'm guessing that there are a lot of people trying to meet many schools' January 15 deadline for financial aid applications, and the folks at the Department of Education don't know how to scale their capacity.
Also, a hearty FUCK YOU to the developers at the Department of Education who so thoroughly disabled pasting into the password change form on their web site that even the Don't Fuck With Paste extension can't re-enable it. #infosec
@jik I hit that today as well. Are they making everybody change passwords?
@sagneta Well so far with our sample size of two the answer is yes. ;-) More than that I don't know.