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real life stuff, for once
Apr. 7th, 2003 08:32 pmRegistered for classes today:
JOU 3101: Reporting
JOU 4004: History of Journalism
ADV 3000: Elements of Advertising
CPO 2001: Comparative Politics (least of the evils, trust me)
Damn ISIS won't let me register for Beginning Spanish. Wankers say I need to fulfill some sort of placement requirement, whatwith all my Hispanic roots and high school accredidation to show for it. Right.
I'm carrying a "real" courseload for the first time since my first semester of college. It thrills me.
Sigh. Confession time. I dropped the ball this semester. Like, bigtime. Like, faking one class, taking the easy out of another, dropping a third because there was no hope of catching up on a month's worth of lectures and reading even before it became two months, and the fourth was never any work to begin with, so it doesn't really count as a class. I just looked back over my transcript and have no clue how I still have a 3.24 GPA after all the fucking around I've been doing.
Actually looking at the critical tracking criteria (haven't had to do that since I've got AP credit practically coming out the ears) made me realize that people are actually here to get an education, not just a degree. Faking it for two years is no small feat, but that's mostly high school and the fact that I do go to my classes, if not necessarily read the books or do the recommended assignments.
However, it's come down to it this semester, and I just didn't cut it with MacroEconomics. It was going fine for a moment there, but then the already precarious tower of cards collapsed and I need to fill out the form that will allow me to get out from underneath it.
Hopefully.
You see, not only does your class instructor need to sign off on it, you have to provide a plausible reason for dropping the course. I have a reason, a reason which yes, as a matter of fact, is being medicated right now, but that's nothing I can (nor wish to have to show in my academic record, for that matter) prove, exactly.
And now I find out that there's the possibility that you can't be failing this class to drop it. Which makes no sense if you think about it, but there it is, and there's going to be every measure taken tonight to keep from crying about it until tomorrow, when I can do something constructive.
Hope they appreciate bald-faced honesty at Criser Hall.
JOU 3101: Reporting
JOU 4004: History of Journalism
ADV 3000: Elements of Advertising
CPO 2001: Comparative Politics (least of the evils, trust me)
Damn ISIS won't let me register for Beginning Spanish. Wankers say I need to fulfill some sort of placement requirement, whatwith all my Hispanic roots and high school accredidation to show for it. Right.
I'm carrying a "real" courseload for the first time since my first semester of college. It thrills me.
Sigh. Confession time. I dropped the ball this semester. Like, bigtime. Like, faking one class, taking the easy out of another, dropping a third because there was no hope of catching up on a month's worth of lectures and reading even before it became two months, and the fourth was never any work to begin with, so it doesn't really count as a class. I just looked back over my transcript and have no clue how I still have a 3.24 GPA after all the fucking around I've been doing.
Actually looking at the critical tracking criteria (haven't had to do that since I've got AP credit practically coming out the ears) made me realize that people are actually here to get an education, not just a degree. Faking it for two years is no small feat, but that's mostly high school and the fact that I do go to my classes, if not necessarily read the books or do the recommended assignments.
However, it's come down to it this semester, and I just didn't cut it with MacroEconomics. It was going fine for a moment there, but then the already precarious tower of cards collapsed and I need to fill out the form that will allow me to get out from underneath it.
Hopefully.
You see, not only does your class instructor need to sign off on it, you have to provide a plausible reason for dropping the course. I have a reason, a reason which yes, as a matter of fact, is being medicated right now, but that's nothing I can (nor wish to have to show in my academic record, for that matter) prove, exactly.
And now I find out that there's the possibility that you can't be failing this class to drop it. Which makes no sense if you think about it, but there it is, and there's going to be every measure taken tonight to keep from crying about it until tomorrow, when I can do something constructive.
Hope they appreciate bald-faced honesty at Criser Hall.
