Life update takes over your flists
Oi! I haven't posted on LJ or read through it in ages. Hope people are doing well.
So, life. Life is going okay! School is going okay! I was panicking on Facebook a bit about a class that I had missed a lot of (though found out that last week Strokanov wasn't actually on campus for classes) and last Friday was the last day to drop a class without getting a failing grade. I was gonna talk to him on Thursday about it, but one of the other profs said he wasn't in town so I sighed and just left it.
Caught him Tuesday on his way to teach his 9:30 class. Talked and walked, sorted things out a bit. Calmed down. Ended up sitting in on his 9:30 class, which was in the same room as me 11 class, so. And he was talking about India. All good.
I was running numbers and by the end of this semester I should have 18 credits rolling in - 6 from last semester, 12 from this one. Two summer classes is another 6, 15 planned for the fall. Ontop of my current 59, that will put me at 98 credits, and I think I need 120 or so to graduate. That means I need about 22 for next year.
I... might be able to do that o.o
The question is whether or not I can finish my major at the same instant. My minor? Easy. I can finish that this year. My major is a little more difficult.
There's a freeze on all the budgets of the departments. I forget all the details because I haven't looked at them for about a week, but the school is trying to avoid being in deficit in 2013 and they're all over the place running numbers to level out themselves so that they'll be okay. But they're currently pissed off the student body by heading towards faculty cuts in order to achieve that. First, offering profs close to retirement an early plan, and since it's seeming unlikely that those folk are all going to accept, they'll go towards untenured profs.
I personally think they should really chop out about half our deans since we apparently have eight and they're even easier to get rid of, but whatever.
The whole thing does bother me and it sucks but I'm more bothered by the departments getting no money.
They can't run more classes without money.
Richard Moye is going on sabbatical the coming fall and spring (I thought he was choosing to start in the spring, so you can imagine my mental keysmash). But then, even if he was here, he might not necessarily be able to teach much since there's no money to do so properly.
Well fuck that guys, how the hell are we supposed to finish our degree, huh?
I did find out that independent studies cost me more money and is easier on them then a full class. So those might end up being my last resorts.
A lot of the student body actually went to Montpelier to talk with the capitol's education folk about money. There's this big number of money that goes to all the public colleges of Vermont... alas the state colleges (Lyndon, Johnson, Castleton...) get pretty much whatever is left of that money. We've been getting less over the years.
I had planned on going, but I've been feeling horrendous off and on this week, and since I would have been traveling in a school van with a bunch of the students with a plan of being out from noon-5, I could see the terrible idea of getting myself stranded there while heaving.
Yeah. So. :| Will have to wait until tomorrow's Critic to see some of the details of how it went.
Uhm... lessee... LARP is creeping up. Gotta get stuff for that... FIRST comp in CT next week... gonna go to that.
FFXI comes back up tomorrow... for who-knows-how-long. SE got their electrical output down to some amount so they can bring the servers back up... I think I've been going through withdrawal only because I can't play.
I'm still weighing around going to Russia in the summer. I want to but... $2800... I really hate spending money. I really, really do. And maybe the school would hire me again, but seriously... I wouldn't rehire me, lol.
But hell, they probably barely can with how money is. Hiring non-workstudy students is money they barely had last year.
...Other stuff... Yearbook we're starting to rush a bit to meet our deadline x.x I'm doing fine in my portfolio/thesis class... though I can't find like... two pieces of paper that I had for my thesis research :| I think it's SOMEWHERE at the house but ugh.
And I really wish it could actually be spring. We had a few days were it was scratching towards 60, and then it snowed another inch or two. Can I get warmer weather? Pleeeease??
Prob missing stuff, but. Whatev. o7
So, life. Life is going okay! School is going okay! I was panicking on Facebook a bit about a class that I had missed a lot of (though found out that last week Strokanov wasn't actually on campus for classes) and last Friday was the last day to drop a class without getting a failing grade. I was gonna talk to him on Thursday about it, but one of the other profs said he wasn't in town so I sighed and just left it.
Caught him Tuesday on his way to teach his 9:30 class. Talked and walked, sorted things out a bit. Calmed down. Ended up sitting in on his 9:30 class, which was in the same room as me 11 class, so. And he was talking about India. All good.
I was running numbers and by the end of this semester I should have 18 credits rolling in - 6 from last semester, 12 from this one. Two summer classes is another 6, 15 planned for the fall. Ontop of my current 59, that will put me at 98 credits, and I think I need 120 or so to graduate. That means I need about 22 for next year.
I... might be able to do that o.o
The question is whether or not I can finish my major at the same instant. My minor? Easy. I can finish that this year. My major is a little more difficult.
There's a freeze on all the budgets of the departments. I forget all the details because I haven't looked at them for about a week, but the school is trying to avoid being in deficit in 2013 and they're all over the place running numbers to level out themselves so that they'll be okay. But they're currently pissed off the student body by heading towards faculty cuts in order to achieve that. First, offering profs close to retirement an early plan, and since it's seeming unlikely that those folk are all going to accept, they'll go towards untenured profs.
I personally think they should really chop out about half our deans since we apparently have eight and they're even easier to get rid of, but whatever.
The whole thing does bother me and it sucks but I'm more bothered by the departments getting no money.
They can't run more classes without money.
Richard Moye is going on sabbatical the coming fall and spring (I thought he was choosing to start in the spring, so you can imagine my mental keysmash). But then, even if he was here, he might not necessarily be able to teach much since there's no money to do so properly.
Well fuck that guys, how the hell are we supposed to finish our degree, huh?
I did find out that independent studies cost me more money and is easier on them then a full class. So those might end up being my last resorts.
A lot of the student body actually went to Montpelier to talk with the capitol's education folk about money. There's this big number of money that goes to all the public colleges of Vermont... alas the state colleges (Lyndon, Johnson, Castleton...) get pretty much whatever is left of that money. We've been getting less over the years.
I had planned on going, but I've been feeling horrendous off and on this week, and since I would have been traveling in a school van with a bunch of the students with a plan of being out from noon-5, I could see the terrible idea of getting myself stranded there while heaving.
Yeah. So. :| Will have to wait until tomorrow's Critic to see some of the details of how it went.
Uhm... lessee... LARP is creeping up. Gotta get stuff for that... FIRST comp in CT next week... gonna go to that.
FFXI comes back up tomorrow... for who-knows-how-long. SE got their electrical output down to some amount so they can bring the servers back up... I think I've been going through withdrawal only because I can't play.
I'm still weighing around going to Russia in the summer. I want to but... $2800... I really hate spending money. I really, really do. And maybe the school would hire me again, but seriously... I wouldn't rehire me, lol.
But hell, they probably barely can with how money is. Hiring non-workstudy students is money they barely had last year.
...Other stuff... Yearbook we're starting to rush a bit to meet our deadline x.x I'm doing fine in my portfolio/thesis class... though I can't find like... two pieces of paper that I had for my thesis research :| I think it's SOMEWHERE at the house but ugh.
And I really wish it could actually be spring. We had a few days were it was scratching towards 60, and then it snowed another inch or two. Can I get warmer weather? Pleeeease??
Prob missing stuff, but. Whatev. o7