What's the worst that could happen?
So I found out yesterday that my Philosophy and Religion minor does not actually count towards, uh, anything. The computers at school can only recognize two minors; it just won't take a third. So while I would have the minor in terms of actual work put in, it will not appear on my transcript or on my degree. This, to put it mildly, has me in a bit of a tiff. I mean, I took the courses, I want my goddamned minor. It has been put to me this way: I should shuffle around my minors so the two I'm most proud of will be the ones on the transcript. In other words, pick two of Medieval Studies, Art History, or Philosophy and Religion, and then just let it roll.
That sucks. A lot. Nobody's even arguing with the fact that I put in the work. The computer system just won't take it, and that has made all the difference.
The way I see it, I have three options:
1) Suck it up, not have my minor show up on my degree, be pissed off, and go along with the Plan As It Has Stood.
2) Drop one of the minors, don't worry about completing it, and have a few more credit hours to spend doing whatever with.
3) Upgrade Philosophy and Religion to a major and risk some hairy semesters and possibly not finishing the program in the four years I have allotted.
REQUIRED BEFORE GRADUATION
-Statistics. (Hard course, in all likelihood. Probably want an easy semester.) 3 hours?
-LSP (so Astronomy.) 3 hours.
ENGLISH MAJOR
-ENG 498, English Senior Seminar. 4 hours.
-One more class for my English concentration. 3 hours.
ART HISTORY MINOR
-One more 300 level class. 3 hours.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES MINOR
-Completed.
-B.A. REQUIREMENTS
-33/40 300+ level hours. (So 3-4 more classes.)
So. For graduation requirements, I have 16 hours of required courses. (...so technically, I could graduate next semester? Wow. It'd be a tough semester, but it could be done.)
I generally take 15-16 hour semesters. Assuming two 15s and a 16, that's 46 hours left of college. We've just calculated that I have sixteen hours of required courses left, so... Thirty hours to play with.
...it would take up 21 of them to add a Philosophy and Religion major. Seven courses, one of which is a Senior Seminar. But it could be done, no question about it, and I'd be done in four years with two majors and two minors... That's fairly impressive, really.
Huh. This is going to require a few long nights of thinking.
-E
That sucks. A lot. Nobody's even arguing with the fact that I put in the work. The computer system just won't take it, and that has made all the difference.
The way I see it, I have three options:
1) Suck it up, not have my minor show up on my degree, be pissed off, and go along with the Plan As It Has Stood.
2) Drop one of the minors, don't worry about completing it, and have a few more credit hours to spend doing whatever with.
3) Upgrade Philosophy and Religion to a major and risk some hairy semesters and possibly not finishing the program in the four years I have allotted.
REQUIRED BEFORE GRADUATION
-Statistics. (Hard course, in all likelihood. Probably want an easy semester.) 3 hours?
-LSP (so Astronomy.) 3 hours.
ENGLISH MAJOR
-ENG 498, English Senior Seminar. 4 hours.
-One more class for my English concentration. 3 hours.
ART HISTORY MINOR
-One more 300 level class. 3 hours.
MEDIEVAL STUDIES MINOR
-Completed.
-B.A. REQUIREMENTS
-33/40 300+ level hours. (So 3-4 more classes.)
So. For graduation requirements, I have 16 hours of required courses. (...so technically, I could graduate next semester? Wow. It'd be a tough semester, but it could be done.)
I generally take 15-16 hour semesters. Assuming two 15s and a 16, that's 46 hours left of college. We've just calculated that I have sixteen hours of required courses left, so... Thirty hours to play with.
...it would take up 21 of them to add a Philosophy and Religion major. Seven courses, one of which is a Senior Seminar. But it could be done, no question about it, and I'd be done in four years with two majors and two minors... That's fairly impressive, really.
Huh. This is going to require a few long nights of thinking.
-E