Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines!!!!!!!!!!!

I am enrolled. I have an idea of the cost (manageable), but am still waiting for the State of California to stick it to the universities with budget cuts and tuition hikes. But still.

I'm in!

Enrollment Update No. 237

From my Advisor earlier today:

Hi Jewels,

[Magic Admin Lady] switched you to [the right program] yesterday and sent a note to [a 2nd magic admin lady]. So, she should be able to take care of that today. Check again tomorrow and if it is not handled, let me know. I will get right on it.

Yes, the system was down but is fine now, so hopefully this will be taken care of promptly.

Dr. X

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I am not a patient person. I mean, I can be, but I have a limit. I was supposed to be enrolled on the 14th,, and today is the 28th. I think that's being pretty fucking patient. I thought computers were supposed to make our lives "easier?" LOL I want this fixed YESTERDAY!!!!!!


There, I said it and I'm not sorry. *exhale*


Que sera, sera mutherfuckers.

Evidently Today is Not My Day

I am still not enrolled.

I know the website was down most of the day, and the servers were being whack, so that may be the problem.

However.....I want to know if this is normal for this university, or if I can't expect fuckups like this throughout my residence in the program?

Not feeling the love. Not feeling it at all.

Going to write my Advisor. AGAIN.

Big Day Tomorrow

The all important administration lady comes back from vacation. Hopefully she has the magic key to enroll me in the rest of my classes. *fingers crossed*

We shall see.

Movement on the Enrollment Front

Just out of curiosity, I checked my university page--like I do 20 times a day--and a class has been added for me. It is a one-unit class on the technology we'll be using for our online education. It can be started on August 1, and completed with a pass/fail by the fourth week of the semester.

I also had a message that my online tools, different from my student account, were ready for me to use. It's a program called Desire 2 Learn, or just D2L.  We had a different program at Chico State called WebCT, which somehow no one ever mentioned when I went through orientation. I was a little taken aback my first day of class at Chico State, which was also a grammar class (and I've forgotten everything I've learned there.).

It was a glitchy, moody, annoying, pain in the arse of a program, and no one liked it. I heard that Chico State changed over to Blackboard after I graduated, but I'm not sure if that is true.

I took an online course through WebCT (anthropology: a study of religion, magic, and witchcraft...really interesting)  and did tests and submitted some papers through it. But I never used it 100% for all my classes. Good thing I just bought this new laptop. *Note to self:  Purchase carbonite or a backup drive for said laptop by first week of class.

So far, I like D2L. I set up my profile, put up a pic of my smiling face, a few words about myself, and saved it. I poked around and looked at and it doesn't seem to be as fussy a program as WebCT. But we shall see.

So I'm really going. I know that I really want to do this because I was so upset when the possibility that I couldn't occurred.  My brain is turning into mush not doing anything all day except housework, net-surfing, selling crap online, and trying not to think about baked goods. I am really looking forward to meeting new people, meeting the professors, learning about the classes and what that will entail, and actually learning new concepts and skills. I love school. Too bad no one will pay me to do it. LOL

So keeping with my personal college traditions, I now must purchase a keychain from my new university. I have one each for the two previous universities I attended, USC and Chico State. I also have a NaNoWriMo keychain because I *won* that last November. And I wanted to A) remember and B) support them even in my own little way.

I'm heading over to the online bookstore to see what they have available on the Internet. Otherwise, the next time I'm in town, I'll just pick one up.

*happy*

OK to Exhale?

From my advisor, today:

We will get you enrolled—a seat is waiting for you in each class.  I can’t wait for [admin person] to return!

X.

*exhale*  I'm just going to relax, let it go, and get on with the things I need to have done before late August, when school starts.

Letting Fate Decide

Earlier I said I applied to this particular program in a sort of "what the hell" fashion and that I would "let fate decide."

Well, earlier this morning, fate gave me a big fat middle finger.

For reasons unknown to my advisor/program director and her boss, I and a few other people never made it onto the registration rolls, despite everything. And like all bureaucracies, the "woman who handles that" is out until the 27th. 

I've done all that I can do. I can't find my letter of admission/welcome. My husband sat at my desk (despite repeated requests not to do that) and all I can find is the envelope. I looked for over an hour. I have no idea where it is because I left it on my desk.

So I've gotta let it go....if I'm in, I'm in, if I'm not, well, damnshitfuckpisshell.

I don't have a backup plan that doesn't involve low-paying clerical work.

*&^%$