Diary 08/08

I have been neglectful of my blogging :o(

So much has been going on! The last week of class I find out that my field experience is listed under the wrong instructor and that I must fill out all of this paperwork to do a late drop add in order to get a grade. I was FURIOUS! I had already gone through heck and back just to get the Storytelling class dropped and the FE added back in May. How in the F#% could they have screwed up the instructor?!?!?!?! Not only that, why is this now my problem?!?!?! I was incoherent with disgust. Because I had to, I filled out the paperwork, emailed, cc'd etc everyone and backed up that paperwork and emails with calls. Do you think they got it together? N-O! It is a horribly helpless feeling when you are not in the place where your school is and you need to get through the bureaucracy. I finally called "student services" and had a melt down. I expressed my frustration with them, the university, the lack of organization on and on. I know they were like who is this crazy person. I don't even know why she is calling - LOL. Needless to say, I was transferred to a higher level person who basically held my hand and walked me step by step through the process all the while, attempting to unruffle my fur. One day before grades were due all of the paperwork was completed and signed by the proper individuals. Currently I have an "I" for my FE but I am assured that by Fall term I will have the "S" I so richly deserve.
I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to be an online student at the University of Pittsburgh. I know THEY are glad I'm not local.