I hate University of Maryland.

[elspethdixon]

After getting up at 6:30 so that I could get to the student services office when it opened at eight and still have time to make it to internship on the metro, in order to drop off a form, and then finding out the history department had given me the wrong form, collecting the right form, which I apparently should have been notifed of the need to fill out last semester, and coming back to the Library Science building after I got back from internship to corner my advisor and get him to sign said credit transfer form (and talk to the student services people, who were very surprised that my name and paperwork was nowhere to be found in their pile of applicants for graduate despite the fact that I submitted the electronic request well before the deadline), I will hopefully be able to graduate in May.

If I'm lucky and the graduate school administration people process everything in time. Otherwise I'll have to take a one-credit audit course in June/July and graduate in August, and I don't know how the hell I'd be able to afford staying in College Park another three months.

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[pandanoai.livejournal.com]

All schools suck! (nods vehemently) I hate the ::insert university name here:: round-about!!

Place A: ~Oh you can't pay for that here! Go to (place b)!
Place B: ~Oh you go to (place a) for that!
Me: but...
Place B: Oh sorry! But only after you go to (place c).
Me: Oh...
Place C: Have you filled this out yet?
Me: No...
Place C: Ok well you can get it at (place a)
Me: 0_o

Sigh... they just want your money for longer that's why they send your paperwork to the same location as all of your left socks...

In other words ^___^ EVERYTHING WILL BE OK! ::e-hug!!::

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

That's essentially what I've been doing with these stupid forms (if someone had mentioned that they needed to be filled out, oh, say, back in November when I was going around asking people how to bail out of the history program, none of this would have been necessary).

[blukitten.livejournal.com]

Good Luck, I know how annoying those forms are, I remember when I was trying to declare a double major at Hollins, I had so many forms and had to approach two different advisors of the departments to get it approved. Bureaucratic stuff like that is SO annoying, but unavoidable. I hope it works out.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm just worried about the money. I mean, two extra months doesn't mean that much in the scheme of things, and I don't really care whether I get to walk at a graduation ceremony or not.

[xjestx.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. This is my current university situation:

Me: *telephones* I want to register for a course that requires an instructor signature but I am currently on the other side of Canada. Can you do that for me?
Student Services: That course requires the instructor's signature.
Me: Yes, I did read that, however I am on the other side of Canada. Surely you don't expect me to fly all the way to Ontario to get this signature.
Student Services: That course requires the instructor's signature.
Me: *groans* But the instructor is listed as TBA! How do I obtain the instructor's signature when I am on the other side of Canada and you don't even know who the instructor is going to be?
Student Services: Yes. That course requires the instructor's signature.
Me: *curses and hangs up*

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

School administrations don't recognize physical impossiblities. If you'd really been serious about taking the class, you would have moved to a different province and developed precognitive abilities in order to determine who the instructor would be.

[megalotro.livejournal.com]

D: I have my fingers crossed for you! Hopefully common sense and awesomeness will prevail, and you can bail asap *nodnod*

-Tro

(dayum, the Charlotte airport is FREEZING)

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

All airports are either over-airconditioned to the point of freezing, or stuffy and hot. Dulles (in DC) manages to be both, in different terminals.