Please, Allow Me To Mumble The Price Of Your Goods At You.
Subtitled: In Which I Forget To Hand In An Assignment Due In March And Have To Defer My Degree.
"Student of the Tasmanian Academy, Hobart Campus,
We don't regret to inform you that you have successfully passed your mid-year exams. We urge you to enjoy the fruits of your success by perhaps attaching the previously enclosed sheet of 'A's' to your refrigerator, or engaging in some other form of celebratory activity. Well done, spot!
However, we do regretfully inform you that due to overdue and/or absent unit work we hereby terminate your enrollment in Biology 5C as of reception of this letter. As the pre-requisite hours for the degree you wish to continue to must total 600+, we also wish to inform you that admissions to this particular branch of further study will no longer be available to you next year. But cheer up, Charlie! Please peruse our gamete of 'Alternative Study Options' and we're sure you'll get there in no time!
Unreceived Coursework:
Assignment: Science and Society - Magazine Articles
Description: Cut out 12-25 magazine or newspaper articles relating to different fields of medical or genetic science, compile a bibliography and return to your course manager.
Due: 15th March, 2010.
Yours Sincerely, (and regretfully!),
Campus Coordinator."
Indeed, I've been expelled for forgetting to cut out some magazine articles in March. Adequate justice has been served for my most heinous of crimes.
Oddly enough, I'm not too gutted. I think it's mostly a case of I don't really care how long it takes anymore. When you're dealing with an institution this absurd there's not even a point to getting all riled up over it. (For example, my friend received no marks on her exam because she wrote it in the wrong colour pen. Heresy!)
So, what do the joys of 2011-12 hold for me now? A diploma of laboratory operations apparently. Which isn't too bad as far as a segue back into my medical degree goes, it's just going to take a little longer.
No, the only issue I really have with it is the primary focus of the course is to cut rats up into thin slices, cover them in nail polish, and take photos of the slices. Not to be confused with histology, that has actual bookwork required, we're just cutting up the rats for reasons we don't apparently have to know.
I genuinely, not sarcastically, love my country's education system.
"Student of the Tasmanian Academy, Hobart Campus,
We don't regret to inform you that you have successfully passed your mid-year exams. We urge you to enjoy the fruits of your success by perhaps attaching the previously enclosed sheet of 'A's' to your refrigerator, or engaging in some other form of celebratory activity. Well done, spot!
However, we do regretfully inform you that due to overdue and/or absent unit work we hereby terminate your enrollment in Biology 5C as of reception of this letter. As the pre-requisite hours for the degree you wish to continue to must total 600+, we also wish to inform you that admissions to this particular branch of further study will no longer be available to you next year. But cheer up, Charlie! Please peruse our gamete of 'Alternative Study Options' and we're sure you'll get there in no time!
Unreceived Coursework:
Assignment: Science and Society - Magazine Articles
Description: Cut out 12-25 magazine or newspaper articles relating to different fields of medical or genetic science, compile a bibliography and return to your course manager.
Due: 15th March, 2010.
Yours Sincerely, (and regretfully!),
Campus Coordinator."
Indeed, I've been expelled for forgetting to cut out some magazine articles in March. Adequate justice has been served for my most heinous of crimes.
Oddly enough, I'm not too gutted. I think it's mostly a case of I don't really care how long it takes anymore. When you're dealing with an institution this absurd there's not even a point to getting all riled up over it. (For example, my friend received no marks on her exam because she wrote it in the wrong colour pen. Heresy!)
So, what do the joys of 2011-12 hold for me now? A diploma of laboratory operations apparently. Which isn't too bad as far as a segue back into my medical degree goes, it's just going to take a little longer.
No, the only issue I really have with it is the primary focus of the course is to cut rats up into thin slices, cover them in nail polish, and take photos of the slices. Not to be confused with histology, that has actual bookwork required, we're just cutting up the rats for reasons we don't apparently have to know.
I genuinely, not sarcastically, love my country's education system.