Work is heading into the registration cycle for the spring semester. Registration starts November 12, which is both WEEKS away and next week. The spring schedule goes up on October 28, which is 2 weeks away, I think, but the keen students are definitely chomping at the bit to get started with their planning. The Arts Degree Advisors (all 2.4 of us ( Read more... )

- I made a mistake in reading an email from 2005, that is the rules for accepting ASL as the second language requirement for our BA degrees. Since I started this job, I thought that, just like all the other languages students take in high school, if students have ASL from grade 11, that suffices for our BA framework. It turns out I was wrong; if ( Read more... )

My coworker scheduled 3 weeks of vacation, before I was back from mat leave, the kind of vacation for which airline tickets are bought. This means I had no choice but to be here for his time, pushing my parent's vacation into a different schedule so he'd be back by then. Okay, fine, we dealt with that. It also means that I've been advising solo ( Read more... )

A student was denied his application to graduate, because he didn't complete the Quantitative requirement of the BA framework. In his last semester, he got a C- in an earth science course. He completed Forensic Anth with a B and CHEM 1101 with a B-, but withdrew from Microecon. He took a computer science course (CPSC 1100) that counts as the ( Read more... )

... but really, what else is happening in my life aside from gestating? It's certainly taking up a lot of my brain, and reducing the capacity of what's left. *grin* At least, that's the folklore ( Read more... )

I know I do a good job, and I know other people know it, and I also know there's always room for improvement. I told myself to accept constructive criticism and don't beat yourself up when you hear anything negative. I think I did that, and I worked quickly through any slight angst the constructive criticism evoked ( Read more... )

I am finally feeling overwhelmed at work. Last week was really damn good, and this week was chugging along nicely, but today feels oppressive. Perhaps it's because I don't want to leave anything pending. Added to that, students are panicky and demanding attention and answers NOW NOW NOW because it's registration week and if there problems aren't ( Read more... )

I stayed in bed for as long as I could: these days that tendency has been creeping up again. I spent as little time doing productive things at home as possible, put on a respectable but Friday-relaxed outfit, and made the appropriate busses to get to work on time. I splurged on breakfast (my regular egg-and-cheese-on-double-toasted-English-muffin ( Read more... )

Seriously: I need to put on some music and leave it on for the rest of the week.

+ Staying afloat at work. I've answered emails, but damn, I just remembered one I left from last week that I really need to answer. Damn.

+ Took a bit of initiative last night; that went well. }B->

: I want towill work in the guest bedroom tonight. We snagged a ( Read more... )

Yet another student contacted our office in a panic because she thought she could graduate at the end of this term and she can't, based on what she says is my poor advising. I looked at my hand-written notes and the notes I wrote in her online record, and I have nothing written saying I told her that X course would count as an arts breadth course ( Read more... )