Posts tagged red tape
College Bound (Again)
Jun 16th
If you had a time machine and went back a year to tell myself that I'd be willingly signing up to take another college course, I would have told you that you were nuts. But here I am.
Ended up going over to the local community college yesterday afternoon to straighten some things out. It appears that my re-matriculation application wasn't processed like it should have been, which would delay my registration at least another week. But I wanted to make sure I could take this one course (happened to be one of the few introduction type courses offered at a time when I could take it this semester) so I wandered over to have it added to my plan of study.
I hate how they have their registration system set up. You need to add classes to your plan of study through an advisor before you can actually register. So I just added this one class temporarily until I was able to actually get added and talk to somebody from the graphic design department to get things set up the rest of the way.
So now I'm registered to take a course in Digital Typography starting in August. Really hope this is interesting. And maybe that it leads me down a path that's more suited to where I feel I should be.
Three Down, One To Go
Apr 11th
I had my third test last night in my statistics class. I think I did OK on it, but it was one of those situations where I finished the test approximately 30 minutes before everyone else. Normally, I'm a fast test taker anyway, so I'm probably the first person done. I just don't like being the first person to hand something in, so I usually hang out and recheck my work to make sure everything looks good. This time though, I kept checking and checking and checking and checking…so I'm really hoping everyone else was just slow and I didn't totally miss a question or 6.
One more to go and I'll be done with that class and, hopefully, classroom instruction as a whole. However, this project thing is another matter entirely. I e-mailed my advisor/project sponsor again requesting when his office hours were so that we could meet up and I can show him what I have done. But despite suggesting that we meet up early last week, he's yet to respond to ANY of my e-mails since then. Warning…mini-rant incoming. Take cover.
I think he's intentionally trying to make this as hard as he possibly can for me and it's starting to piss me off royally. I'm getting awfully tired of being jerked around by professors here. Even when I started working on this project and asked him how it generally worked, he didn't tell me anything as far as what was expected of me. I'm just flying blind here and hoping that whatever I get done with will meet his expectations, which it probably won't and then I'll be forced to stay back another semester here so I can do it the right way. If that happens I can assure you I'll be marching straight to the deans office because I'm getting tired of this red tape crap. I want out.
I Have…A Plan!
Jan 14th
Thursday I managed to get a hold of the department head at my college so we could discuss what I need to get done in order to graduate (finally).
After a lengthy conversation, I ended up needing the Software Engineering class which had sparked this whole thing to begin with (since I needed to take it at night, but it’s never offered at night), the final big project thingy, some sort of Western Civilization course and 2 open elective courses that are whatever I feel like taking.
The confusion with my calculus has been resolved I hope. He said that even though I took calc at my first school, when I transfered into my current one, they took my pre-calc course as the highest level of math I completed, even though calc 1 was on my transcript. He said he’d fix that.
So I’m taking 2 classes this semester. Themes in Western Civilization since the Renaissance (Western Civ requirement) and Constitutional Law (Open Elective #1). I’m interested in the constitutonal law stuff so I figured that’s a decent pick. Seperation of powers, supreme court decisions and their effect on the branches of government, etc.
I’m probably going to be taking one course over the summer (open elective #2) and then finish out with the software engineering class and the project in the winter and graduate by december.
That’s the plan…hopefully things don’t go off. I really want to get done with school and put all of this junk behind me.
FREEEEE!!! (For Now)
Dec 12th
I took my American History 101 final last night, which means the class is done and I’m officially free! Woohoo! I think I did pretty well on it too, which was good considering I actually spent time studying for it. I usually don’t study much for tests, but generally I’m the kind of person that can look over their notes for 15 minutes before the test and call that studying.
I’ve also finally established contact with somebody at school to try and fix up my schedule problems for next semester. Those problems mainly being they’re not offering anything I need and haven’t offered this one specific class at night or on the weekends in, well…ever. The class is Software Engineering which is incredibly annoying to me because IT’S WHAT I DO AT MY JOB EVERY DAY. I also need to take a western civilization course which, surprise surprise…they’re not offering either.
And for some reason my Calc 1 course didn’t transfer over and I really don’t want to have to take that again. I need to talk with the registrar’s office I think and get that settled.
One thing at a time…
Er…What? (Part 4)
Sep 11th
Just heard back from the college on my billing situation. I should be straightened out again and all registered again, with no re-registration fee needed.
Yeah right. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Er…What? (Part 3)
Sep 10th
Arrgh! I thought this whole thing with the college was over with. I got something in the mail saying they had a refund check waiting for me at the registrar’s office.
So, called up the school again…get a load of this logic. According to the school I didn’t pay. Therefore, they dropped me from my class. Because I dropped from the class, they’re going to give me a refund (the money that I paid and yet didn’t actually pay according to them). So…if they have a payment on file for me, why was I dropped from the class to begin with??
Sigh. Ok, so the person at the school said to keep going to classes, she was going to try to straighten things out on Monday. Hopefully better than the last person straightened it out. Oh, before this they staid that I was going to have to pay the $40 re-registration fee because they messed up. Riiight. Not happening.
Update on the College Billing Fiasco
Sep 6th
Just wanted to post an update to my entry about the billing problems I was having with my college.
Talked with them yesterday and they said they had no idea what had happened (shocker!) and they noted that they hadn’t actually charged my account for anything…
So I guess they straightened that all out which I verified this morning. My account no longer has that credit for the exact amount of the payment that was sent in. They also waived the re-registration fee since it was their mistake. How nice of them.
So now I can go back to class on Monday. Which reminds me, I need to read a couple chapters from the book…
Er…What?
Sep 2nd
I just got a letter from my college informing me that I haven’t paid my bill yet. As such, they’ve un-registered me for this semester.
Of course, my parents (who paid for this semester) have a canceled check from them saying they got the payment. And the university police also realized I paid because they wouldn’t have given me a parking permit otherwise.
Oh, and it says I actually have a CREDIT on my account for the total of the payment for this semester since it looks like they forgot to charge me for everything this time around.
Something is definitely screwy over there… Guess I’ll find out on Tuesday what’s going on, since Monday is a holiday (Yay, 3 day weekend…what a way to start it off)
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