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tenlittlebullets) wrote2006-01-26 04:25 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2006-01-26 04:25 pm
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The short version: Academically, I am screwed.
The long version: I was planning on undertaking an independent music project this semester, which basically means me taking extra voice lessons and giving a recital in May. w00t w00t. If you're a sophomore, which I am, this requires a 3.0 GPA or higher. More on that later.
I have 16 credits this semester. I need 17 to graduate. Two of the current credits are an art history course that I'm itching to drop, and since the independent project would be 3 or 4 credits, I'll be able to do that if I can do the project.
The end of add period is tomorrow, which means the deadline for submitting the project. It's also the deadline to submit grade revisions.
My GPA is currently 2.8, due entirely to an F in History of the English Language caused by not turning in my final paper. I don't think the paper was actually 50+ percent of our grade, but apparently I failed until I turned it in. So I just finished it this afternoon and I was all set to turn it in and get the revision and be able to add the project, when the professor basically told me "I don't have time to grade it tonight. I'm not taking it. Should have turned it in earlier. Sorry." Which... is her right, I suppose, but it does screw me over rather royally. And then I asked if she could just compute what my grade would be without the paper and submit that instead, and she basically told me to STFU and leave her alone.
Normally when one is .2 below the required GPA, especially in such circumstances, it is quite easy to file for an exception with the recommendation of the music department and get to do the project anyway. But the board for such petitions met on... Tuesday?! Dude, that's not helping, and there was totally no notification of that. Bzuh.
So I go into full-blown panic mode, and start thinking less about how to get the project underway--because my voice teacher said I can still do the recital, even if I don't get the credits--and more about how to get that pesky one credit I need the day before add period ends. I look at the course guide. All the classes either do not interest me like whoa, are taught by terrible professors, or conflict madly with my current schedule. Finally I just flinch and say "I could drop the 2-credit musical revue and add 3-credit Intermediate French if I place into it." I take the online placement test. I place into second-semester intermediate French by one point: score! And then I realize the professor has to sign the add form, is not there, and will not be there tomorrow. Bleeding hell!
So yeah. Screwed. Utterly screwed. There are a couple possibilities:
My academic advisor is talking to the linguistics professor who gave me the F. He might, possibly, maybe be able to convince her to just give me whatever percentage grade I would have got without the paper. This is not terribly likely.
Also I am meeting with the dean of students on Wednesday to talk about all this crap, and it's possible he'll give me the go-ahead on the project once he sees that the 2.8 GPA is because of a single grade, not because I'm an irresponsible fucktard who slacks off in all my classes. This possibility will be about ten times more likely if I get the support of the head of the music department, who has yet to email me back. Oy. I do have my voice teacher, my academic advisor, and possibly some of the theater department faculty on my side though. This is my last hope, because I kinda sorta know the dean and he's not an asshole and he might take pity on my general fucked-upness.
But yes. So screwed. x_x
The long version: I was planning on undertaking an independent music project this semester, which basically means me taking extra voice lessons and giving a recital in May. w00t w00t. If you're a sophomore, which I am, this requires a 3.0 GPA or higher. More on that later.
I have 16 credits this semester. I need 17 to graduate. Two of the current credits are an art history course that I'm itching to drop, and since the independent project would be 3 or 4 credits, I'll be able to do that if I can do the project.
The end of add period is tomorrow, which means the deadline for submitting the project. It's also the deadline to submit grade revisions.
My GPA is currently 2.8, due entirely to an F in History of the English Language caused by not turning in my final paper. I don't think the paper was actually 50+ percent of our grade, but apparently I failed until I turned it in. So I just finished it this afternoon and I was all set to turn it in and get the revision and be able to add the project, when the professor basically told me "I don't have time to grade it tonight. I'm not taking it. Should have turned it in earlier. Sorry." Which... is her right, I suppose, but it does screw me over rather royally. And then I asked if she could just compute what my grade would be without the paper and submit that instead, and she basically told me to STFU and leave her alone.
Normally when one is .2 below the required GPA, especially in such circumstances, it is quite easy to file for an exception with the recommendation of the music department and get to do the project anyway. But the board for such petitions met on... Tuesday?! Dude, that's not helping, and there was totally no notification of that. Bzuh.
So I go into full-blown panic mode, and start thinking less about how to get the project underway--because my voice teacher said I can still do the recital, even if I don't get the credits--and more about how to get that pesky one credit I need the day before add period ends. I look at the course guide. All the classes either do not interest me like whoa, are taught by terrible professors, or conflict madly with my current schedule. Finally I just flinch and say "I could drop the 2-credit musical revue and add 3-credit Intermediate French if I place into it." I take the online placement test. I place into second-semester intermediate French by one point: score! And then I realize the professor has to sign the add form, is not there, and will not be there tomorrow. Bleeding hell!
So yeah. Screwed. Utterly screwed. There are a couple possibilities:
My academic advisor is talking to the linguistics professor who gave me the F. He might, possibly, maybe be able to convince her to just give me whatever percentage grade I would have got without the paper. This is not terribly likely.
Also I am meeting with the dean of students on Wednesday to talk about all this crap, and it's possible he'll give me the go-ahead on the project once he sees that the 2.8 GPA is because of a single grade, not because I'm an irresponsible fucktard who slacks off in all my classes. This possibility will be about ten times more likely if I get the support of the head of the music department, who has yet to email me back. Oy. I do have my voice teacher, my academic advisor, and possibly some of the theater department faculty on my side though. This is my last hope, because I kinda sorta know the dean and he's not an asshole and he might take pity on my general fucked-upness.
But yes. So screwed. x_x