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So, Reg Day was Monday. Now, years and years ago, when I switched majors from 2 to 2A, my advisor and I sat down and went through MechE's checklist for what classes I needed to take, when I would take them, and made sure I had enough units and we'd all be cool.
Every Reg Day hence, she and I sat down and went over that list again, just to make sure we were good.
Then came Monday. Now, at the end of last term, I'd looked at my Undergraduate Audit, just as a safety check. Good thing I did. For some reason, despite the MechE office thinking I needed 24 more units to graduate (186 beyond GIRs total), the Registrar's Office thought I needed 43 (192 beyond the GIRs).
This was Not Good.
So, I mention it to my advisor, and we once again go over the checklist with a fine-tooth comb. Insert lots of me bouncing between her office, the MechE Undergrad Office, and the Registrar's Office like a demented pinball on speed. Finally, I figure out one of the discrepencies (transfer credit not counting as credit, but as fulfilling departmental requirements), and added a 12 unit course on video game ethics and bumped up my thesis units from 12 to 15 for the units. Now, I was at 188 units beyond the GIRs, which made MechE happy.
But not the Registrar. So I email the Registrar's Office and tell of this disagreement between their requirements and MechE's yesterday and hear nothing back for 24 hours.
Then, I get an email from my advisor, saying that there had been a "kerfuffle" between MechE and the Registrar's Office, and the end result is that MechE's hands are tied and the Registrar is going to hold me to the 192 units.
Suck. Time to go find some bullshit seminar and somehow smash it into my increasingly-heavy schedule.
Except not. My advisor, who is, true to form once again, Made of 100% Concentrated Awesome, figures out a Plan and has me fill out an Add form to add an Independent Study for the magic 6 units with her as my supervisor.
So. I think (hope) this should make the MechE office happy because I have over the 186 units, the Registrar's Office happy because I have over the 192 units, and me, my advisor, and my parents happy because I can goddamn graduate in June.
I swear to god, only me. This bullshit can only happen to me.
Every Reg Day hence, she and I sat down and went over that list again, just to make sure we were good.
Then came Monday. Now, at the end of last term, I'd looked at my Undergraduate Audit, just as a safety check. Good thing I did. For some reason, despite the MechE office thinking I needed 24 more units to graduate (186 beyond GIRs total), the Registrar's Office thought I needed 43 (192 beyond the GIRs).
This was Not Good.
So, I mention it to my advisor, and we once again go over the checklist with a fine-tooth comb. Insert lots of me bouncing between her office, the MechE Undergrad Office, and the Registrar's Office like a demented pinball on speed. Finally, I figure out one of the discrepencies (transfer credit not counting as credit, but as fulfilling departmental requirements), and added a 12 unit course on video game ethics and bumped up my thesis units from 12 to 15 for the units. Now, I was at 188 units beyond the GIRs, which made MechE happy.
But not the Registrar. So I email the Registrar's Office and tell of this disagreement between their requirements and MechE's yesterday and hear nothing back for 24 hours.
Then, I get an email from my advisor, saying that there had been a "kerfuffle" between MechE and the Registrar's Office, and the end result is that MechE's hands are tied and the Registrar is going to hold me to the 192 units.
Suck. Time to go find some bullshit seminar and somehow smash it into my increasingly-heavy schedule.
Except not. My advisor, who is, true to form once again, Made of 100% Concentrated Awesome, figures out a Plan and has me fill out an Add form to add an Independent Study for the magic 6 units with her as my supervisor.
So. I think (hope) this should make the MechE office happy because I have over the 186 units, the Registrar's Office happy because I have over the 192 units, and me, my advisor, and my parents happy because I can goddamn graduate in June.
I swear to god, only me. This bullshit can only happen to me.
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You owe your advisor cookies. In fact, that should be the independent study: weekly cookie making :)
(AUGH stupid paperwork and arguments and one head not talking to the other head)
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You could frost them with symbols from the periodic table to be sciency!
(P.S. Ultranos. PRETTY BACKGROUND. I so need to make my dw account pretty).
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Hee, periodic table symbols! Although, she might appreciate it more if I put equations/Greek letters on them. She was mightly amused a few years ago at how I etched a certain set of equations onto my Leatherman.
(Thank you! It's a piece of art by Greg Martin that I really liked.)
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Weekly cookie making is an excellent idea.
(I KNOW. OH MY GOD, IT WAS INSANE.)