I'm Not Graduating (Possibly)
Yeah, I came home from work and my mom was like, "You got something in the mail from URI." So we both looked on as I opened it and I jokingly said "Yeah, they're telling me I'm not graduating."
And that was, in essence, what it said.
According to them, I am 5 credits short of the required 124 or whatever it is. Five? How does that even happen?! They say I just need more 300 level electives. All my Gen Eds are done, all my History courses are done, just freaking electives are holding me back. Maybe.
You see, way back before my first semester at URI, I met with an advisor to go over what credits transferred and all that. She said that DID have enough upper-level electives from UT. I am almost 100% positive that I still have the form she filled out which showed this. SO, I am definitely going to dig that up and take it to the Dean's Office tomorrow (or wherever they tell me to go). At this point, not graduating this semester would just be a big pain. What if my family moves to North Smithfield during the summer? There is no freaking way I am going to make such a long commute everyday. And what about work? I really am planning to leave Brooks, again partially cuz I wanted to find a different job in the Northern part of the state. Still having to be at URI would just mess everything up. The only good thing is it WOULD give me more time to prepare for my job search, but that's the only positive I can see. Not to mention, I have no idea what 300 level courses I would take. I've taken just about all the history classes that interest me, and most Psych and Animal Science courses have prereqs that I don't meet. Well, I'm not getting too worried about that yet. Hopefully I can get some answers by tomorrow or sometime soon.
I'm not feeling overly happy, so I think I'm gonna go read. At least my eating was okay today.
And that was, in essence, what it said.
According to them, I am 5 credits short of the required 124 or whatever it is. Five? How does that even happen?! They say I just need more 300 level electives. All my Gen Eds are done, all my History courses are done, just freaking electives are holding me back. Maybe.
You see, way back before my first semester at URI, I met with an advisor to go over what credits transferred and all that. She said that DID have enough upper-level electives from UT. I am almost 100% positive that I still have the form she filled out which showed this. SO, I am definitely going to dig that up and take it to the Dean's Office tomorrow (or wherever they tell me to go). At this point, not graduating this semester would just be a big pain. What if my family moves to North Smithfield during the summer? There is no freaking way I am going to make such a long commute everyday. And what about work? I really am planning to leave Brooks, again partially cuz I wanted to find a different job in the Northern part of the state. Still having to be at URI would just mess everything up. The only good thing is it WOULD give me more time to prepare for my job search, but that's the only positive I can see. Not to mention, I have no idea what 300 level courses I would take. I've taken just about all the history classes that interest me, and most Psych and Animal Science courses have prereqs that I don't meet. Well, I'm not getting too worried about that yet. Hopefully I can get some answers by tomorrow or sometime soon.
I'm not feeling overly happy, so I think I'm gonna go read. At least my eating was okay today.
posted by Erica at 10:07 PM
1 Comments:
(It's Matt.) Ugh... that sucks!!! At least you got your audit. I got mine two weeks ago (put it in back in November), and a friend of mine still hasn't gotten his yet, either. If your major is the same as mine, you need 41 credits of the 300+ level out of your required 121 (or I guess 124 in your case). And 3/4 of your MAJOR classes need to be at URI. They may be F*$!ed up because they may think you are working towards the requirements that are in effect NOW, and not what they were when you STARTED. But the school policy states that you are entitled to complete with the program that was in effect when you started it (note, not when you started school, but when you started the PROGRAM). I think that's all there is to it. Go complain and see what happens. Kick some ass!!!
FYI, it says that I'm actually taking 3 credits more than I really need... but I did my math a billion times and I don't see what they're talking about. But I'm not complaining... at least they're not telling me I can't graduate. :
-Matt
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