12.20.02 :: well, i now am a
student with a student loan. i have some of my books
on order, and i got all the classes i wanted. applied
for a university e-mail address, but didn't hear back
from them. lastly, i need to see about getting a
parking sticker!
11.22.02 :: Since  has
a habit of misinformation, I am now stuck until
Monday. This is because my last name is not  .
Now, I was told last week I could
register late on Nov. 22 for the Spring 2003
session. So, I logged in this
morning to Goldmine and tried, but found I was
unable to register. So, I called the Registrars
office (AGAIN) and they said I could not register
until Monday.
Now, there is late registration today, November 22.
But what they meant was people with names beginning
with N-Z could register late today and those
beginning with A-M can do so Monday, November
25.
Could have been worse, could have been the other way
around.
That is the way it has been the entire time. Hurry
up and wait or get bad/indifferent information. The
good thing is that the young woman who helped us
with the financial aid was the best, aside from
advising professor.
I will be writing a letter to the University soon specifically thanking them.
In Conclusion, Ladies and Jelly spoons
You know, I am a whole lot more patient and slow to
anger than I used to be. You have to be in
dealing with any large organization like a university.
Case in point:
I almost gave the
one-fingered salute to a blonde in a gas
guzzling-platinum-colored 2003 Lincoln Navigator when she tried to run up the rear of my poor 1989
vintage vehicle on I-10 East about 3:10 p.m.
yesterday.
Instead, I touched the brakes a little.
She must have been late to St. Concrete Prep to pick
up little Brent LottaBux III, who goes by Tres
to nearly everyone who knows and loves him.
Ms. Bobbie LottaBux, late of Detroit, Tampa, and
Dallas, was lucky, though.
My mother was in the car with me at the time.
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If
only the University understood there are
probably many people out there would like
to return.
If only they would provide a punch list of
items to complete.
(Insert applause here)
So, if you are interested in going back to
school, you might want to read this:
Back on September 30, 2002, I submitted an
e-mail form asking how to return to
school. That same day, I received an
e-mail from the Webmaster who said they
would forward my question to the Office of
Admissions and Undergraduate Recruitment.
(I can't find a specific web page for
this, so you can try this
one.
About 5 days later someone wrote to me and
said they would look up my transcript.
Well, it had been so long they had to dive
into the archives to find it. And find it
they did. They were able to find my dusty,
old transcript in one day. Imagine!,
one day to cart the thing out of archives
and put it in someone's IN basket. But,
then! it took from October 18 to around
November 8 to get it into the their
system with the alphabet soup name.
So, one day to find it, 3 weeks to put it
into the system. Ah, the wonders of the
computer age.
It was during this time I was told I
needed advising. So, I called to the
Academic Advising Center and was told I
needed to make an appointment to talk to
an Advisor, but only after the transcript
was in the system. I made an appointment
for a Friday after I heard that the grades
were safely tucked away online.
With the advisor from AAC, we basically
talked about what I wanted to do and how
to go about doing it.
Here I learned that my grades were ON HOLD
because I had over 60 hours and had to
declare a MAJOR. Working off a green
worksheet the advisor crossed off my
previously completed courses after I told
him the MAJOR I chose. He explained
what I needed to take, based on the degree
plan for 2000-2002. So now, I need to
finish by 2006.
The advisor finished by saying I would
need additional advising from the
Department I chose (English). So I trotted
over to Hudspeth Hall to find out if there
was someone who could talk to me. No one
was available so I would have to make another
appointment.
I did and had a quick meeting the next
week with Michael Mullins, advisor for
Creative Writing. He was very helpful and
enthusiastic about my returning to school.
At last, no bored burocrat, but
someone actually interested in my
education. Another person who was very
helpful was Jeri Mearns, an instructor in
the English department. She too, was
excited to hear I was returning to
complete my degree.
With advising out of the
way, I headed off to the Liberal Arts
office to DECLARE the MAJOR and MINOR.
This was done by the receptionist who
entered it into the system, while I
watched. Though the minor is tentative, the
major is English,
Creative Writing.
As I had to declare a MINOR at the
same time I choose, Professional Writing
and Rhetoric. The other possible minor is
Graphic Arts. For that, I have all
the basic drawing and design classes and
the minor would only have to complete 4
graphic design classes.
Note the operative word here is complete.
Who knows how much design and prep time
the classes would take. And, I have
not set foot in the building since I
left the Art Department in 1975.
I do plan to talk to the Art
Department later after class starts.
I might see if I am allowed 2 minors, but I
don't know.
In the back of my mind I hear:
Student Loans for crd and babyGoth starting
college in 2006...
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