Fun with Administration
Mar. 25th, 2004 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksThis school is full of crap.
We're suppose to sign up for classes starting on Monday, so I emailed my 'advisor,' Dr. Xuan, about what classes I need to take to graduate and if I could meet him sometime for advising.
Now, in theory, our advisor is supposed to be one teacher who works with us through the four years, helping us pick classes to learn what we want to learn and still graduate on time. In practice, I have never met really with my advisor, who has changed at least once each year -- Xuan is just the latest instance. I met him once in his office at the beginning of the semester, to discuss how things are going with my education and such, and he (predictably) had little idea of what was going on at all. He didn't know what classes I'd taken, what classes I need to take, or even what classes were being offered! And he had a weak, cold-dead-salmon handshake. It was like holding a dead rat in my hand, but clammier and with less fur. Right off I don't trust a guy with a weak handshake.
So I send him this email, and he doesn't even reply to be, he just CCs me in a letter to his supervisor, Dr Meister (who was teaching here when my GRANDFATHER went through, should be dead, and looks the part) who's even more senile and not-with-it, asking HIM to find out what it is I need. And he doesn't even touch on meeting for advising!
It's all crap. They pass the buck off to people who are even more inept than they are, and nothing gets done! If I don't graduate because someone forgot to mention that I needed to take Engr124 or some shit, I'm going to be more than pissed off. It's one thing if I'm not learning anything here, it's quite another if they think I'm going to sit here for an extra semester or more because of their ineptitude!
Whatever, I'll register first for the things I know* I have to take, then for the classes I simply want to take, and we'll figure any errors out when we can.
*(and that's another thing! they gave us this flowchart freshman year, detailing what courses we need to take each semester to graduate. and they've changed the damn thing each semester! in fact, lest fall it said i was supposed to take csc365 this spring, and this spring it says i should have taken it last fall, and it isn't offered this semester!)
We're suppose to sign up for classes starting on Monday, so I emailed my 'advisor,' Dr. Xuan, about what classes I need to take to graduate and if I could meet him sometime for advising.
Now, in theory, our advisor is supposed to be one teacher who works with us through the four years, helping us pick classes to learn what we want to learn and still graduate on time. In practice, I have never met really with my advisor, who has changed at least once each year -- Xuan is just the latest instance. I met him once in his office at the beginning of the semester, to discuss how things are going with my education and such, and he (predictably) had little idea of what was going on at all. He didn't know what classes I'd taken, what classes I need to take, or even what classes were being offered! And he had a weak, cold-dead-salmon handshake. It was like holding a dead rat in my hand, but clammier and with less fur. Right off I don't trust a guy with a weak handshake.
So I send him this email, and he doesn't even reply to be, he just CCs me in a letter to his supervisor, Dr Meister (who was teaching here when my GRANDFATHER went through, should be dead, and looks the part) who's even more senile and not-with-it, asking HIM to find out what it is I need. And he doesn't even touch on meeting for advising!
It's all crap. They pass the buck off to people who are even more inept than they are, and nothing gets done! If I don't graduate because someone forgot to mention that I needed to take Engr124 or some shit, I'm going to be more than pissed off. It's one thing if I'm not learning anything here, it's quite another if they think I'm going to sit here for an extra semester or more because of their ineptitude!
Whatever, I'll register first for the things I know* I have to take, then for the classes I simply want to take, and we'll figure any errors out when we can.
*(and that's another thing! they gave us this flowchart freshman year, detailing what courses we need to take each semester to graduate. and they've changed the damn thing each semester! in fact, lest fall it said i was supposed to take csc365 this spring, and this spring it says i should have taken it last fall, and it isn't offered this semester!)
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Date: 2004-03-25 04:30 pm (UTC)I understand your frustration completely. All to well.
Kill them all.
Would make me feel better, at least...
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Date: 2004-04-06 07:46 am (UTC)*indulges in a fantasy of suing for fraud and winning the suit, entitling all students to college planning that makes sense. *
Oh, well...