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This weekend: Saw HP and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, loved it. Then got stuck on the highway in the torrential downpour because Dad drove through a ridiculously-deep puddle and lost his power steering. (The belt snapped.) Ended up waiting in the car for two hours for Mom and the tow truck to come; thankfully they both came at the same time. Watched Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (thank you, Philips, for making crackable DVD players). Good movie, by the way. Craig liked it. Didn't get to do the college shopping I'd hoped to because of said car issues, but still ended up spending money. -_-;
Filled out the application for the 599 training program, and I'll fax it in tomorrow. I'm waiting for Judy (that idiot) to call me back and give me every reason why I don't qualify. If I get a notice in the mail over the next couple of weeks that says I should have all the ease in the world finding a secretarial job, I will curse her to death. She said that last time. I tried to explain to her that it'd be pretty much impossible for me to find a job as a secretary while in school because of my hours, but she didn't want to hear it. She also pauses a lot while she's on the phone with me, which makes me think she's got a cheat sheet that she keeps looking at to deter me from pressing the matter. You know how sales people call up and have that sheet that tells them what to say when you decline their offers? Yeah. It could be that she's just not sure how to put things (she's Asian--I'd say Chinese), but I suspect that's not it.
Hopefully I get approved, because I'd like the ability to pay my tuition for the year and possibly put a small dent into my credit card bill. If not, things will be interesting. I don't know if the state contacts the school I'll be attending. That might be another problem, because at this point Juniata has me graduating in 2014. The way things were transferred in, I have 45 credits currently and it'll take me at least until 12/2013 to get the 120 credits (if I take 15 credits a semester, which is what they recommend). That's over 24 months. I'm going to try my best to take more than the 15 credits they suggest to make up for it, but someone said the max you can take is 17, so I'm not sure what good it'll do.
I'm going to go to the chairs of the art department, communications department, and possibly the English department, to see if I can get credit for four of the classes I transferred in. I still think I should get out of two of the art history classes because I've already covered all the material in them. If I get out of College Writing Seminar (which I need to e-mail my advisor about to see if she's heard anything), that'll be 4 credits, plus possibly 6 for the art history courses, and I'm going to try for 3 in communications and 3 in English. I'll still only have 45 credits, but the distribution of courses will be better for me if I can get everything I want, and racking up classes will be easier. Part of the reason it's going to take so long currently is because I'm lacking in quite a few of the distribution requirements. (Part of the reason I wanted to go to Smith: NO distribution requirements. One thing I don't like about Juniata is that their requirements are kind of crazy, although I'm sure it makes for a very well-rounded student.) If I get everything I want, CWS's requirement will be done, I'll have a CS course, Humanities will be complete with credit for in-depth study (3 of the 5 distributions need either a level-300 course or one with a prerequisite), and two art history classes out of three will be done.
I have half a mind to just skip the unemployment thing, keep claiming 'til the end of the month, and let it go. I really don't feel like dealing with Judy again. I'm already expecting a very annoying, pull-my-hair-out phone call from her soon after I fax this application in, but I'm going to try to be positive about it. I'm sure she'll bring up the fact that I changed my occupational goal. I'm not changing my major to make her happy. What, so I can get knocked down to WORSE than upper-sophomore level and she can tell me it'll take me four years to get out? Yeah, okay. Anything to keep me from qualifying. First it was my work hours and that I couldn't find a job as a secretary because of them. Now it's the major. It was never the major before. You'd think she would've caught that back in January/February.
Good things: HP, the Nook Dad bought me came, and... something else. I don't know. I'm tired.
Also, when we got home and I was talking with Craig, a mouse practically screamed out of Mom's room and ran to the living room, because it had free reign all weekend. I shudder to think what's going to happen in my room when I'm not here. I might tell Craig to just kind of live in here every once in a while to keep any mice thinking someone's still here.
If I can drag myself out tomorrow, I might go visit Dona, Maureen, and Rani at work, and anyone else that happens to be there... but definitely them. If not tomorrow, Thursday.
Filled out the application for the 599 training program, and I'll fax it in tomorrow. I'm waiting for Judy (that idiot) to call me back and give me every reason why I don't qualify. If I get a notice in the mail over the next couple of weeks that says I should have all the ease in the world finding a secretarial job, I will curse her to death. She said that last time. I tried to explain to her that it'd be pretty much impossible for me to find a job as a secretary while in school because of my hours, but she didn't want to hear it. She also pauses a lot while she's on the phone with me, which makes me think she's got a cheat sheet that she keeps looking at to deter me from pressing the matter. You know how sales people call up and have that sheet that tells them what to say when you decline their offers? Yeah. It could be that she's just not sure how to put things (she's Asian--I'd say Chinese), but I suspect that's not it.
Hopefully I get approved, because I'd like the ability to pay my tuition for the year and possibly put a small dent into my credit card bill. If not, things will be interesting. I don't know if the state contacts the school I'll be attending. That might be another problem, because at this point Juniata has me graduating in 2014. The way things were transferred in, I have 45 credits currently and it'll take me at least until 12/2013 to get the 120 credits (if I take 15 credits a semester, which is what they recommend). That's over 24 months. I'm going to try my best to take more than the 15 credits they suggest to make up for it, but someone said the max you can take is 17, so I'm not sure what good it'll do.
I'm going to go to the chairs of the art department, communications department, and possibly the English department, to see if I can get credit for four of the classes I transferred in. I still think I should get out of two of the art history classes because I've already covered all the material in them. If I get out of College Writing Seminar (which I need to e-mail my advisor about to see if she's heard anything), that'll be 4 credits, plus possibly 6 for the art history courses, and I'm going to try for 3 in communications and 3 in English. I'll still only have 45 credits, but the distribution of courses will be better for me if I can get everything I want, and racking up classes will be easier. Part of the reason it's going to take so long currently is because I'm lacking in quite a few of the distribution requirements. (Part of the reason I wanted to go to Smith: NO distribution requirements. One thing I don't like about Juniata is that their requirements are kind of crazy, although I'm sure it makes for a very well-rounded student.) If I get everything I want, CWS's requirement will be done, I'll have a CS course, Humanities will be complete with credit for in-depth study (3 of the 5 distributions need either a level-300 course or one with a prerequisite), and two art history classes out of three will be done.
I have half a mind to just skip the unemployment thing, keep claiming 'til the end of the month, and let it go. I really don't feel like dealing with Judy again. I'm already expecting a very annoying, pull-my-hair-out phone call from her soon after I fax this application in, but I'm going to try to be positive about it. I'm sure she'll bring up the fact that I changed my occupational goal. I'm not changing my major to make her happy. What, so I can get knocked down to WORSE than upper-sophomore level and she can tell me it'll take me four years to get out? Yeah, okay. Anything to keep me from qualifying. First it was my work hours and that I couldn't find a job as a secretary because of them. Now it's the major. It was never the major before. You'd think she would've caught that back in January/February.
Good things: HP, the Nook Dad bought me came, and... something else. I don't know. I'm tired.
Also, when we got home and I was talking with Craig, a mouse practically screamed out of Mom's room and ran to the living room, because it had free reign all weekend. I shudder to think what's going to happen in my room when I'm not here. I might tell Craig to just kind of live in here every once in a while to keep any mice thinking someone's still here.
If I can drag myself out tomorrow, I might go visit Dona, Maureen, and Rani at work, and anyone else that happens to be there... but definitely them. If not tomorrow, Thursday.
