wasting time like we've all the time in the world
So yesterday, I decided to try to get my school stuff straightened out. drove the 3 hours to charlotte, early in the morning. chased down a change of major form (not in the building the website said it'd be in). chased down an advisor for 'undeclared and transitioning' students, and got what is so far the only real help I've had. which is granted, not a lot. no help on getting into calculus until my precal class is done next week (hopefully there'll still be spaces available) and advice to just take something i'm interested in to get up to full-time status. I wanted to maybe try retaking the illustration class I failed my last semester, when I basically had a nervous breakdown and spent weeks barely leaving my dorm room. the silkscreen and mixed media classes were stupid, I don't feel particularly guilty for them. but Illustration was a class that I really liked, that I really wanted to do well in... but going out to face the world was just too hard. I only passed one class that semester, the geology class that did all of it's testing online, so I could read the book, and take the tests from my room. But that class isn't offered this semester. so can't do that :<
Financial aid was no help either. I have to submit a form to appeal their 'you failed a semester, you get no aid' decision. so when I get home, I need to type all that stuff up and hope they'll change their mind. it's looking like first semester is going to be crappy private loans though. Daniel qualifies for aid, but not much, since they're basing it on his current income. because YEAH, he's TOTALLY going to be able to keep up the 10-hour a day factory job 3 hours away from school, RITE?! >_<
this is just all so frustrating. If you don't fit into the 'freshly graduated high school student who knows what major they want' mold, this is all so incredibly aggravating. I won't even be able to take basic bio until next semester, and then bio 2 next spring, and THEN I can start taking all the other bio classes I need. I'm hoping that maybe just before class starts, I can beg an indulgence off the bio dept, and maybe get permission to take bio 2 this semester without the prereq. I've taken the 'bio for non-majors' class, and do a lot of pleasure reading on the topic, so I think i'd do OK. just a matter of convinving THEM. >_< I know that people going into pre-bio and bio majors as transfer students have to take the math placement test also, so i'll probably have to too, even though i'll HOPEFULLY be in calc this coming semester.
I guess later today we're hoping to sign the lease for an apartment. smaller than we like, but about 15 min. drive from school, and they're ok with our cats. granted, we have to pay an extra month's rent in nonrefundable pet fees... gah. I hate that part. it's not like they pee on the floor and scratch up the walls, they're good cats. you can't tell me they're going to do $600 worth of damage in 6 months. our current plan to stay there for 6 months, and keep an eye out for something else. my dad got daniel stuck on the idea of buying a cheap house. I don't think it's such a great idea, but I guess it might be an option... I was thinking maybe an apartment in concord, or a duplex somewhere, or a mother-in-law suite or something. but it's so hard to look for a place to live when it's such a drive to get there.
Right now, we're at school for daniel's orientation and registration. there's nothing here for me, and honestly it's mostly redundant info for daniel. but he has to go through this to register. and I have to be here, because what else will I do, sit in the car the whole time?
we've spent the past few months stuck in 'can't do anything yet' mode, and now it's shifted into 'everything has to be done NOW' and I just hope we can do it all. my ears are feeling stuffy, and I 'm afraid I'm getting sick on top of everything else. I just want to crawl into bed and sleep, but I can't. I have a precal final to study for, and packing to do, and work to keep up on, and daniel's birthday and christmas, and so much else to do.
OK, gonna go stick lappy in the trunk and maybe take a nap in the student union chairs. can't wait to get home tonight.
Financial aid was no help either. I have to submit a form to appeal their 'you failed a semester, you get no aid' decision. so when I get home, I need to type all that stuff up and hope they'll change their mind. it's looking like first semester is going to be crappy private loans though. Daniel qualifies for aid, but not much, since they're basing it on his current income. because YEAH, he's TOTALLY going to be able to keep up the 10-hour a day factory job 3 hours away from school, RITE?! >_<
this is just all so frustrating. If you don't fit into the 'freshly graduated high school student who knows what major they want' mold, this is all so incredibly aggravating. I won't even be able to take basic bio until next semester, and then bio 2 next spring, and THEN I can start taking all the other bio classes I need. I'm hoping that maybe just before class starts, I can beg an indulgence off the bio dept, and maybe get permission to take bio 2 this semester without the prereq. I've taken the 'bio for non-majors' class, and do a lot of pleasure reading on the topic, so I think i'd do OK. just a matter of convinving THEM. >_< I know that people going into pre-bio and bio majors as transfer students have to take the math placement test also, so i'll probably have to too, even though i'll HOPEFULLY be in calc this coming semester.
I guess later today we're hoping to sign the lease for an apartment. smaller than we like, but about 15 min. drive from school, and they're ok with our cats. granted, we have to pay an extra month's rent in nonrefundable pet fees... gah. I hate that part. it's not like they pee on the floor and scratch up the walls, they're good cats. you can't tell me they're going to do $600 worth of damage in 6 months. our current plan to stay there for 6 months, and keep an eye out for something else. my dad got daniel stuck on the idea of buying a cheap house. I don't think it's such a great idea, but I guess it might be an option... I was thinking maybe an apartment in concord, or a duplex somewhere, or a mother-in-law suite or something. but it's so hard to look for a place to live when it's such a drive to get there.
Right now, we're at school for daniel's orientation and registration. there's nothing here for me, and honestly it's mostly redundant info for daniel. but he has to go through this to register. and I have to be here, because what else will I do, sit in the car the whole time?
we've spent the past few months stuck in 'can't do anything yet' mode, and now it's shifted into 'everything has to be done NOW' and I just hope we can do it all. my ears are feeling stuffy, and I 'm afraid I'm getting sick on top of everything else. I just want to crawl into bed and sleep, but I can't. I have a precal final to study for, and packing to do, and work to keep up on, and daniel's birthday and christmas, and so much else to do.
OK, gonna go stick lappy in the trunk and maybe take a nap in the student union chairs. can't wait to get home tonight.