More adventures with bureaucracy!

Umph. So I am in a cloud of generalized anxiety over school things; being a transfer is already weird and screwy and it doesn't help that I don't know my class standing. I've been kind of ignoring it all because it was winter break, but interterm started yesterday so I should probably start emailing people because I have three inter-related problems and one separate one.

1. I need to come back early to audition for voice lessons; there are limited slots, and there might be a wait list. Should contact Karen Smith-Emerson about that, since I know her through chorus. Also I've promised my boss to work through the Wednesday of the last week of interterm, which might be a problem.

Inter-related shit:

2. My class standing is still screwed up and I really should talk to my academic adviser about it.
3. I also have to email the professor of the French class I'm signed up for, because I don't have the prerequisites but I really want to take it.
4. The deadline to apply to study abroad is February 1. I don't know if it even fucking applies to me because my class standing is screwed up, but assuming I get it ironed out and become a regular sophomore, that will be my deadline for junior year abroad. But I'd need special dispensation of the French department because you're required to take 4 college-level semesters of the language before you go; I have one, and I will have two if I don't get kicked out of French 360 for lack of prereqs. This is all really fucking stupid because my French is, or will soon be, good enough to study in Paris, but bureaucracy is goddamn intractable as I have recently learned.

My current thinking on all this is that I should go back early to sort it out, but again, I promised my boss to cover on the 21st while she goes to a wedding. So I will have to worm my way out of that if I want to go back early.

I also need to talk to Dominique Thiébault, who apparently is the person who knows what computer-science courses are available in the Paris study-abroad program. And whom I have never met in my life. This is important because the study-abroad application goes over your graduation and major requirements with a fine-tooth comb.

Ugh, sorry to bore you, f-list. I just needed to organize my thoughts, and I am less likely to lose a LJ entry than a piece of paper.

More adventures with bureaucracy!

Umph. So I am in a cloud of generalized anxiety over school things; being a transfer is already weird and screwy and it doesn't help that I don't know my class standing. I've been kind of ignoring it all because it was winter break, but interterm started yesterday so I should probably start emailing people because I have three inter-related problems and one separate one.

1. I need to come back early to audition for voice lessons; there are limited slots, and there might be a wait list. Should contact Karen Smith-Emerson about that, since I know her through chorus. Also I've promised my boss to work through the Wednesday of the last week of interterm, which might be a problem.

Inter-related shit:

2. My class standing is still screwed up and I really should talk to my academic adviser about it.
3. I also have to email the professor of the French class I'm signed up for, because I don't have the prerequisites but I really want to take it.
4. The deadline to apply to study abroad is February 1. I don't know if it even fucking applies to me because my class standing is screwed up, but assuming I get it ironed out and become a regular sophomore, that will be my deadline for junior year abroad. But I'd need special dispensation of the French department because you're required to take 4 college-level semesters of the language before you go; I have one, and I will have two if I don't get kicked out of French 360 for lack of prereqs. This is all really fucking stupid because my French is, or will soon be, good enough to study in Paris, but bureaucracy is goddamn intractable as I have recently learned.

My current thinking on all this is that I should go back early to sort it out, but again, I promised my boss to cover on the 21st while she goes to a wedding. So I will have to worm my way out of that if I want to go back early.

I also need to talk to Dominique Thiébault, who apparently is the person who knows what computer-science courses are available in the Paris study-abroad program. And whom I have never met in my life. This is important because the study-abroad application goes over your graduation and major requirements with a fine-tooth comb.

Ugh, sorry to bore you, f-list. I just needed to organize my thoughts, and I am less likely to lose a LJ entry than a piece of paper.