I will finish school, come hell or high water...
...and I just got a piece of information that may make reaching that goal much easier.
Mustering up my courage, I went down to campus today to talk to the people at the Office of Student Life about my options for somehow getting those F's and I's removed from my transcript, either with paperwork or by completing the classes. Unfortunately, the person I needed to talk to was out today due to a family emergency, but the receptionist mentioned something I did not know about before: it appears that I can retake any failed class at no additional charge. This would totally and utterly rock, provided I actually managed to keep my head about me. We'll see if this is possible after I speak with the assistant dean on Monday.
The only down side to this is that I can't have a full-time day shift job and actually complete said classes, unless my employer were to give me some sort of weird flex time, which could be feasible since I'd only be taking these bloody things one at a time anyhow. Of course, there are part-time jobs posted in the paper that might suffice as well, but I've really been gunning for the full-time mail clerk job at Western Technical College this last week. Oh well, at least the Post Office finally sent me my testing materials ^.^
In related news, I have enrolled in my first online Mizzou class, which should be fairly easy to complete in three or four months, depending on how stuff with UWL goes. Freshman-level creative writing. Should be a breeze, but I gotta make sure I stick with whatever program I create for myself, and we all know how I struggle with self-imposed deadlines and such. Still, I'm trying to look at this as a way to break my nasty scheduling habits, so as to not defeat myself with "stinkin' thinkin'" before I actually begin anything.
Mustering up my courage, I went down to campus today to talk to the people at the Office of Student Life about my options for somehow getting those F's and I's removed from my transcript, either with paperwork or by completing the classes. Unfortunately, the person I needed to talk to was out today due to a family emergency, but the receptionist mentioned something I did not know about before: it appears that I can retake any failed class at no additional charge. This would totally and utterly rock, provided I actually managed to keep my head about me. We'll see if this is possible after I speak with the assistant dean on Monday.
The only down side to this is that I can't have a full-time day shift job and actually complete said classes, unless my employer were to give me some sort of weird flex time, which could be feasible since I'd only be taking these bloody things one at a time anyhow. Of course, there are part-time jobs posted in the paper that might suffice as well, but I've really been gunning for the full-time mail clerk job at Western Technical College this last week. Oh well, at least the Post Office finally sent me my testing materials ^.^
In related news, I have enrolled in my first online Mizzou class, which should be fairly easy to complete in three or four months, depending on how stuff with UWL goes. Freshman-level creative writing. Should be a breeze, but I gotta make sure I stick with whatever program I create for myself, and we all know how I struggle with self-imposed deadlines and such. Still, I'm trying to look at this as a way to break my nasty scheduling habits, so as to not defeat myself with "stinkin' thinkin'" before I actually begin anything.