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ups and downs
Apr. 1st, 2008 03:38 pmSo. The end of last year was a huge clusterfuck. Grandfather died, sister tried to kill herself, other people died, my parents were going crazy under the stress, and I pretty much lost it after someone decided that it would be a great idea to kill themselves by lying in the middle of the road. at night. wearing all black.
It might have worked, too, if not for porsche brakes. Thanks porsche! Anyway. Then I got a bad sinus infection. I pretty much checked out of school at that point, which was a problem since I had a bunch of work for one of my classes still to do. I realized it wasn't going to happen, and cried uncle. The department took pity on me, and gave me an incomplete. I had until yesterday to finish the work.
What do you, dear peanut gallery, think happened?
Oh, you know.
I left all of the work until this past week. Three months of time, but I wait until the last week. Which means that at 3pm yesterday I was emailing my poor prof a 10-page final paper, a whole bunch of audio files, analysis of a MEG run, and some lab writeups. My poor prof who has a defense in two days.
As you might imagine, it's not like he had time to review all of it. So the automated system emailed me an 'F' last night.
Now, this isn't the end of the world. As it happens, he can still change the grade, because I did, after all, do the work in the time alloted. BUT IT WAS REALLY FREAKING STUPID OF ME.
Anyway, today I finally wandered over to change my major to GIS. It turns out I have to go to a Degree Planning Workshop, in which I outline a 4-year plan (To go on top of my existing 15-year-plan?). And then they'll change my major. Whee.
From talking to the Geog folks, it turns out I'm even a few classes closer to a degree than I thought. Also, if I don't fail any classes this semester, at the end of it I'll be a Junior.
Weird.
It might have worked, too, if not for porsche brakes. Thanks porsche! Anyway. Then I got a bad sinus infection. I pretty much checked out of school at that point, which was a problem since I had a bunch of work for one of my classes still to do. I realized it wasn't going to happen, and cried uncle. The department took pity on me, and gave me an incomplete. I had until yesterday to finish the work.
What do you, dear peanut gallery, think happened?
Oh, you know.
I left all of the work until this past week. Three months of time, but I wait until the last week. Which means that at 3pm yesterday I was emailing my poor prof a 10-page final paper, a whole bunch of audio files, analysis of a MEG run, and some lab writeups. My poor prof who has a defense in two days.
As you might imagine, it's not like he had time to review all of it. So the automated system emailed me an 'F' last night.
Now, this isn't the end of the world. As it happens, he can still change the grade, because I did, after all, do the work in the time alloted. BUT IT WAS REALLY FREAKING STUPID OF ME.
Anyway, today I finally wandered over to change my major to GIS. It turns out I have to go to a Degree Planning Workshop, in which I outline a 4-year plan (To go on top of my existing 15-year-plan?). And then they'll change my major. Whee.
From talking to the Geog folks, it turns out I'm even a few classes closer to a degree than I thought. Also, if I don't fail any classes this semester, at the end of it I'll be a Junior.
Weird.
