This is my first year entering university and looking at my Triton Pay quite literally gave me a heart attack.

If I received aid from UCSD, where am I supposed to see where that money is applied? Is it automatically deducted from my cost of attendance, or will money be sent to my checking/savings account? What about Parent Plus loans, how do those work? What are my parents supposed to expect? If I took out subsidized and unsubsidized loans from the school, where am I supposed to see that?

The deadline to pay is coming up and I feel all over the place. I don't know what to expect or what to do and how to plan for this.

Any information at all would help tremendously. What is the process?