I just don’t need this

Mood: irritated  Music: Tempted - Squeeze  Reading: Stuff for school

I’m a right mess right now, I’m not even joking. My nerves are shot to ribbons!

I got a letter in the mail at the end of last week acknowledging my request to graduate/walk in May. I was missing a class but it’s okay to walk as long as they have proof that you are registered for your remaining classes. No biggie. I had signed up for French 4 (the only class I need) at BYU (Brigham Young University) because their independent study course is easier for me to handle, schedule-wise.

I show up at the registrar’s office and they can’t accept the payment receipt that shows I paid for the class. I start freaking out. It has to be official paperwork: either official or unofficial transcripts. I think to myself, OK, maybe BYU posts classes as “in progress” online on their transcripts like NSHE (Nevada System of Higher Education) does.

I was wrong. So very wrong.

I register and login to my account at BYU and the class doesn’t even show! I’m pretty sure it was because it’s an independent study course. Either that, or it’s because they don’t show in progress classes on transcripts like we do. So I’m literally freaking out for 2 hours until I can get a second opinion from my advisor (who happens to be my prof in the afternoon too, haha). I blew up my Twitter feed so bad because no one I knew would even know what I was babbling about if I called ‘em. Sorry Twitter followers! lol.

Thinking maybe I had to login to the class once to have it show up on my transcripts, I end up getting a D- on the first assignment for that class. FML. My brain was so not on French anything. I understood what I was reading, but I took the mastery quizzes and barely passed ‘em. So I don’t agree with that grade at all.

However, I hope that all the graded assignments (the weekly lessons, as well as the tests) are multiple choice. I hope to God there isn’t anything about writing essays or responses in French. ‘Cause I’m fucked if they expect me to remember how to string together sentences in French after six years.

Anyways, I emailed both my schools to see if they could work with me. My independent study school is the only one to contact me so far. What bullshit. You can never get a hold of anyone at my school! It’s phone tag or they ignore emails. But that’s a rant for another day.

Turns out the form to submit a proof of enrollment is on the independent study website. I’m such an idiot. I was freaking out so bad I didn’t even see the link. However, bless that girl who helped me. You can have it mailed, or faxed. The turnaround will be a day if you get it faxed.

The deadline is April 15. FML!!!

I can’t believe I’m on the fence like this. I didn’t know it was going to be this difficult. I know it’s mostly my fault. But I didn’t know the next step into confirming enrollment. The “graduation coordinator” at my school was of no help to me. Maybe she was the wrong person to talk to but she didn’t recommend anyone to speak to next. It’s not like they lay out the process for submitting proof of enrollment for classes for you online either. Truth be told, my advisor got me into this mess in the first place. I was ready to graduate on the wrong catalog year! lol. Plus the letter they sent me last Friday is such a form letter. It doesn’t tell me squat.

I’m really focusing my anger on the bureaucracy of it. Why didn’t they accept my receipt as proof of enrollment? It shows I paid for the damn class. I’m out almost $500 dollars because of it.

AAAAAARRRRRRGGHHHH!!!

I feel much better writing this out there. Helps me focus my frustration. I’m going to call the person who was supposed to be faxed my proof of enrollment tomorrow. Hopefully BYU does like they’re supposed to, i.e. faxing it out by tomorrow.

?: “What was your last bad day about?“