BPM is going over to Washington in about 1 hour so wish him luck.
In other news, that girl from monday called again...she took up an hour of phone time at midnight. Anyhow, I'm playing pool with her today but I'll try to set her up with one of my enginmaneer friends.
Lately my life has been a little topsy turvy. I'm not one to panic so I'm sitting here watching everything I've built up over the last few years get knocked down. Things were looking pretty bad yesterday afternoon but I talked with a ton of my professors and all the deans I could chat with and I had a meeting on Wednesday with the academic commitee.
Anyhow here's the lowdown of what's happenned in the last few years and what happenned in the last two weeks:
I started University in 1999 and have been in school every term since then. I've also had really good marks and that's pissed all my friends off because I don't go to class (usually the first and last class for each class), I don't study until the day before an exam, and I'm incredibly attractive (he he he...I wish). Anyhow, I do spend a lot of time meeting and talking with my Profs/TAs so most are pretty happy with me. I recently finished 3.5 years of a 4 year CS degree and have switched to Bio-Chem/Arts so that I could work towards a Masters and that's also been going great. Throughout this whole time I've worked nights on two different jobs to make enough money to buy a car (which was stolen and I only get 1/4th of the cost from insurance) and pay for school. During this time my best friend got lung cancer, went crazy, slashed his wrists, slashed his throat. Two friends died in accidents, another died after falling out of a building, another from a drug overdose, and another commited suicide in a chemistry lab. I've had 3 gfs, 2 of which are wacko and 1 who cheated with almost all of my friends. NOT ONCE have I lost my cool or temper and I've taken everything in stride and moved on.
Then...last week happenned. Initially I thought that it was a minor matter but a combination of events had pretty much ruined everything.
Last week a student in one of my bio classes accused me of cheating. I talked with my prof who compared our assignments and found them to be quite similar. The prof told me not to worry about it because I've known him for a while and he said that I wouldn't cheat and that it was all cool. Anyhow, I went home and didn't hear anything for a couple days. Then on thursday I got a call from the dean of science telling me to come in. I went in and they had pulled out all my marks and put me academic probation. Every single exam I had written had come under scrutiny because (check this)...that stupid guy who accused me of cheating is the son of an associate dean. Thing is that the associate dean and science dean don't like me one bit because well..."I'm lazy and don't deserve to be there while other people are trying."
Ok...they checked every assignment I had handed in, every lab I wrote, every exam (hundreds) and nothing...absolutely nothing. So again, they sent me away and told me that they'd be in touch.
Anyhow...nothing really bad...all seemed to be ok and weekend was great.
Monday morning, phone call from the dean of Arts saying that he'd looked at my record and found no problems but the Science dean and his associate were planning on getting me kicked out. I went and checked with the science deans and he called me a liar right to my face and kicked me out. SI then went and talked to the Arts and Math deans and they said not to worry.
Monday evening: I was kicked out of University because the damn guy told the computer people to remove me as a current student. Just like that I lost all credibility.
Tuesday: I talked to the president but he really didn't seem happy to see me.
Tuesday afternoon: I got copies of my exams and assignments and filled out a petition.
Wednesday morning: I got the secretary to let me into a meeting that the administration was having and told them the situation. The science dean yelled at me to get out but I was able to present my case in the afternoon...I got back into school...the deans list for both faculties...I got a formal apology...and I got 98 on my assignment
So...life has really sucked forthe last little bit in terms of school but I had my first real test
Anyhow, you can call me names and stuff but I'm not smart...I just don't care that much about school and I got pretty lucky. What's your worst University experience?
I have a 6 hour chemistry lab coming up today and my lab partner is in a panic because she doesn't know to solve an integral with graphite in an acid...some people are sooo uptight.
Ok...I just needed to get that out as the last few days have absolutely academically sucked...if you stayed and read the whole rant then...thank you, nobody has helped me in my life and just knowing that somebody will read this is good enough
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"You love her don't you?"
"No"
In other news, that girl from monday called again...she took up an hour of phone time at midnight. Anyhow, I'm playing pool with her today but I'll try to set her up with one of my enginmaneer friends.
Lately my life has been a little topsy turvy. I'm not one to panic so I'm sitting here watching everything I've built up over the last few years get knocked down. Things were looking pretty bad yesterday afternoon but I talked with a ton of my professors and all the deans I could chat with and I had a meeting on Wednesday with the academic commitee.
Anyhow here's the lowdown of what's happenned in the last few years and what happenned in the last two weeks:
I started University in 1999 and have been in school every term since then. I've also had really good marks and that's pissed all my friends off because I don't go to class (usually the first and last class for each class), I don't study until the day before an exam, and I'm incredibly attractive (he he he...I wish). Anyhow, I do spend a lot of time meeting and talking with my Profs/TAs so most are pretty happy with me. I recently finished 3.5 years of a 4 year CS degree and have switched to Bio-Chem/Arts so that I could work towards a Masters and that's also been going great. Throughout this whole time I've worked nights on two different jobs to make enough money to buy a car (which was stolen and I only get 1/4th of the cost from insurance) and pay for school. During this time my best friend got lung cancer, went crazy, slashed his wrists, slashed his throat. Two friends died in accidents, another died after falling out of a building, another from a drug overdose, and another commited suicide in a chemistry lab. I've had 3 gfs, 2 of which are wacko and 1 who cheated with almost all of my friends. NOT ONCE have I lost my cool or temper and I've taken everything in stride and moved on.
Then...last week happenned. Initially I thought that it was a minor matter but a combination of events had pretty much ruined everything.
Last week a student in one of my bio classes accused me of cheating. I talked with my prof who compared our assignments and found them to be quite similar. The prof told me not to worry about it because I've known him for a while and he said that I wouldn't cheat and that it was all cool. Anyhow, I went home and didn't hear anything for a couple days. Then on thursday I got a call from the dean of science telling me to come in. I went in and they had pulled out all my marks and put me academic probation. Every single exam I had written had come under scrutiny because (check this)...that stupid guy who accused me of cheating is the son of an associate dean. Thing is that the associate dean and science dean don't like me one bit because well..."I'm lazy and don't deserve to be there while other people are trying."
Ok...they checked every assignment I had handed in, every lab I wrote, every exam (hundreds) and nothing...absolutely nothing. So again, they sent me away and told me that they'd be in touch.
Anyhow...nothing really bad...all seemed to be ok and weekend was great.
Monday morning, phone call from the dean of Arts saying that he'd looked at my record and found no problems but the Science dean and his associate were planning on getting me kicked out. I went and checked with the science deans and he called me a liar right to my face and kicked me out. SI then went and talked to the Arts and Math deans and they said not to worry.
Monday evening: I was kicked out of University because the damn guy told the computer people to remove me as a current student. Just like that I lost all credibility.
Tuesday: I talked to the president but he really didn't seem happy to see me.
Tuesday afternoon: I got copies of my exams and assignments and filled out a petition.
Wednesday morning: I got the secretary to let me into a meeting that the administration was having and told them the situation. The science dean yelled at me to get out but I was able to present my case in the afternoon...I got back into school...the deans list for both faculties...I got a formal apology...and I got 98 on my assignment
So...life has really sucked forthe last little bit in terms of school but I had my first real test
Anyhow, you can call me names and stuff but I'm not smart...I just don't care that much about school and I got pretty lucky. What's your worst University experience?
I have a 6 hour chemistry lab coming up today and my lab partner is in a panic because she doesn't know to solve an integral with graphite in an acid...some people are sooo uptight.
Ok...I just needed to get that out as the last few days have absolutely academically sucked...if you stayed and read the whole rant then...thank you, nobody has helped me in my life and just knowing that somebody will read this is good enough
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"You love her don't you?"
"No"
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wow, congratulations for getting through all that and not taking shit from some administration assholes.
those of us who coast through school seem to get it the worst. i sympathize.
so far my post-sec. experience has been good. fell into the habit of never showing, but like you, i'm in good with most of my proffessors. and i'm really good at bargaining over missed work and stuff. people seem to want me to do well, and make exceptions for me, even though i don't really care either way. hmm. go figure.
anyhow, i hope things in general start looking up for you.
the whole world seems to be in a shit-storm right now, so you aren't alone. have a good day.
make love, not war.
anyway, that's just shit luck, I know all about