News from the Front

Four weeks to go and the Battle of Spring 08' rages on.

I've taken out everything that is due this week, which included the first research paper of the final three, and the second essay in advanced composition. Last night I finished my classroom analysis, so it's ready to be submitted to my eportfolio right now. I'm essentially left with three big tasks (not counting finals) for this semester; my Southern Women Writers Research Paper (which is going well), and my Advanced Composition Research paper (which... um... isn't going really... hey it's not due until way after everything else so it's taken a bit of a backseat). Of course, the third thing is the OGET test, which is next Saturday, but that's if I even get to take it...

Here's the problem. I've been to the counselors at least four times that I can remember, maybe even more than that, since starting my classes at UCO. It wasn't until this semester in my foundations class, which has a "highly recommended" standing of a junior or higher to take, was I even TOLD about the OGET. I went to register right away, but there was only ONE registration time available before the end of the semester, and that was in April (next Saturday).

But here's the real kicker; I'm enrolling on Monday for next semester, but I can't take the next level of my education courses until I've taken and passed the OGET. Even if I did just wait the week to take the OGET to enroll, endangering my odds of getting ANY of the classes I wanted, that still wouldn't work because it takes a WHOLE MONTH to grade the OGET and get it back to the students, meaning there's pretty much no possible way for me to continue my education courses next semester, which means I may very likely end up being FORCED to take next semester off, or at the very least it is now guaranteed that another semester is being added to my college plan. Congratulations UCO - you may have actually defeated me.

The only possible way I could still "win" is if there happens to be an Educational Psychology course, a quite limited class, still open come this time next month, after the entire college has already enrolled, and it's at a time that doesn't conflict too badly (though hopefully not at all) with my current schedule that will be made on Monday for next semester. Of course, this is the absolute best case scenario, and my brain usually doesn't work that way. The next step down would be that I actually have enough elective credits that need to be filled (fingers crossed) to make a full-time, 12 credit hour schedule, and take nothing but 1000 level courses next semester to clear those credits. This way, I still get to be in school, but it will be officially certain that my college plan is ruined and I'll have to stay longer than 4 years for my undergrad degree. Of course, worst case scenario is that I don't even have enough elective credits for next semester, and I have to take the whole semester off.

I'm probably going to go see the counselors and see if they have any suggestions, but I don't know if I even trust those incompetent boobs any more. Like I said, I've been there four or five times, and half of those times I actually corrected the counselor more times than they corrected me! Not only that, but their complete lack of mentioning the OGET in my "college plan" that they actually sat down with me and worked on! Looking back on all this now, I honestly feel like UCO has been trying to defeat me all along.

Anyway, I've got more work to do, so I'll call it quits for this week before I make myself too mad to work.