so, i swear that one does not go to college for a higher education...
one goes to college to do nothing but jump through hoops....
only my hoops aren't just ordinary hoops...they're flaming hoops with the dean of the college of education behind me cracking a whip, and my advisor on the other side looking around like she had nothing to do with it....
bitches.
so amongst the 15hours of classes, study time, 30hours of work (to PAY for fucking school), 3 days of teaching, and trying to have a personal life (per week), i now have to give my self an ulcer trying to write a letter of appeals to my dean........
you see, if i don't complete passing scores on all three praxis I exams, 80hours worth of field work, 45 completed class credits and completion of English 202A by the end of this semester, i don't get into my major....
if i don't get into my major, i have to transfer schools....
i have out scored the average on the Reading and Writing Praxis, but failed the math by two, count 'em, two measley points...and i only have 1 chance this fall to re-take it. i have about 12 hours of field experience....by the end of the semester i will have about 72.....that's not 80...i will have 31 class credits by the end of this semester which means i can't take english 202A because i need to have 45credits as a pre-req...
wtf??? the reason i am so behind is because i went back to school in the spring of last year after a 2 semester hiatus...but not transferring my credits from pitt...so really it was like i never went to school at all.....
so, even though i started in the spring, my advisor signed me up for my entrance to major pool as if i had started the past fall...which, shaves off a whole semester's worth of time that i can use to complete my requirements...
so, i did nothing my first semester but focus on becoming acclimated to my new school...3 days before finals my advisor told me i had to have EVERYTHING completed by the end of the next semester (this one)...when at the beginning she told me i also had next semester....
now, i am writing this letter essentially begging them to let me change my entrance pool to Spring 2005...that saves me living expenses for a whole year at least...
my advisor says i should get it bc i have over a 3.0 and great Praxis scores...
sound confusing and sorry you read that?
imagine how i feel.
my birthday is on monday. everybody better tell me things about happiness and birthdays and such.
the end.
one goes to college to do nothing but jump through hoops....
only my hoops aren't just ordinary hoops...they're flaming hoops with the dean of the college of education behind me cracking a whip, and my advisor on the other side looking around like she had nothing to do with it....
bitches.
so amongst the 15hours of classes, study time, 30hours of work (to PAY for fucking school), 3 days of teaching, and trying to have a personal life (per week), i now have to give my self an ulcer trying to write a letter of appeals to my dean........
you see, if i don't complete passing scores on all three praxis I exams, 80hours worth of field work, 45 completed class credits and completion of English 202A by the end of this semester, i don't get into my major....
if i don't get into my major, i have to transfer schools....
i have out scored the average on the Reading and Writing Praxis, but failed the math by two, count 'em, two measley points...and i only have 1 chance this fall to re-take it. i have about 12 hours of field experience....by the end of the semester i will have about 72.....that's not 80...i will have 31 class credits by the end of this semester which means i can't take english 202A because i need to have 45credits as a pre-req...
wtf??? the reason i am so behind is because i went back to school in the spring of last year after a 2 semester hiatus...but not transferring my credits from pitt...so really it was like i never went to school at all.....
so, even though i started in the spring, my advisor signed me up for my entrance to major pool as if i had started the past fall...which, shaves off a whole semester's worth of time that i can use to complete my requirements...
so, i did nothing my first semester but focus on becoming acclimated to my new school...3 days before finals my advisor told me i had to have EVERYTHING completed by the end of the next semester (this one)...when at the beginning she told me i also had next semester....
now, i am writing this letter essentially begging them to let me change my entrance pool to Spring 2005...that saves me living expenses for a whole year at least...
my advisor says i should get it bc i have over a 3.0 and great Praxis scores...
sound confusing and sorry you read that?
imagine how i feel.
my birthday is on monday. everybody better tell me things about happiness and birthdays and such.
the end.
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I know how you exactly feel, I have been and will be going through the same hoops until I graduate. Its a hoop game and the ones that survive reap the benefits, at least that whats i have been told. School is not about the education you recieve its how well you jump and bs your way through, if you play their mind games and politics you will succeed.