Tenative achieveawoe:
I found out I was able to get into a pansy geometry class and bypass algebra in order to graduate....yay! (Fail isn't even a strong enough adjective about how much I suck at algebra)
.....Turns out my lousy acedemic advisors never pointed out this alternative, and it's been available since Spring of 2008, and I qualified for the class in Dec of 2007.
This pissed me off bad enough to write a 4 page appeal to the counselors, and the math chairman about how I wasted about $1,000.00 trying to get out of algebra for a year and a half. Dropping, adding, and testing out of the same class over and over, buying books, and DVD study guides, etc. I'm appealing for competency (Math credit, no GPA, or an audit (as if I never took the class at all, no grade, no GPA, no credit as a last resort.) If the 2.0 is dropped, then my GPA will be raised from a low Cum Laude, to a solid Magna Cum Laude.
If they don't say "yes" to either one of these alternatives, I will take this to the Dean, but I seriously doubt it'll go that far. I have gone to her only once before in 2005, and even though you can go to her as many times as you please, there's an unwritten rule that crying to her everytime you have a problem can cut your credibility. That's why I'm wary. I was already prepared last semester to go, but I'm glad I made no threats, and I was able to work it out without a 3rd party. (Thank goodness! I needed that extra last resort plea this time around!
)I have a lot of butterflies in my stomach about it, but what I'm asking for is a grade change to a course already taken and passed, that I never needed to take (nor wanted to). So, it seems less severe. Plus, they've got my money that they'd never refund me in a million years, so what's it to them that I want this damn 2.0 off my record? I don't think she'll need to get involved, but just in case, I've got *years* of recipts, failed CLEP tests, and my acedemic transcript to prove all of this nonsense would've been avoided had the advisors done their job right, as I sought their help to get me in a math that I am capable of passing respectively. Plus, there's no way they can possibly disprove I wouldn't have taken that class and graduated a year ago, because I have my 2008 ceremony on video tape.
I think this will come out well!
But now I've gone from semi-estatic, to a little concerned about my weight loss. I *shouldn't* be worried because it's not unexplained weight loss, but it's falling off pretty fast. I know I'm losing because of stress. I've lost 23 lbs now that it's been a full month, and I would otherwise be jumping off the walls because I am overweight, but now I don't want to eat, and will freak out every time I idle, so I'll go exersize to get my mind off of feeling guilty for playing the DS, or having Subeta/Neo in my internet tab. It's creeping me out because this is nothing like me at all. I miss slacking a little....
. The lady at the counter had to ID me to buy it because she thought I was under 18. So that was a nice sentiment to getting old.
