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Okay so this is a secret. But I'm trying to transfer schools. The closer I get to the process being done the more people I tell, but only very few people who I'm close to know. I don't see the point in telling them I'm leaving if I end up staying. Also, my mom's family is really critical so I don't need to give them fodder.
However, I'm starting to get a little stressed out, so I thought I'd blurt it all to you my fellow CSers. This is the WHOLE story, which only my parents and a few close friends know about.
So this past year of school was pretty bad. There was a lot of social drama, class drama, and I was struggling. I wasn't dealing well with all of the stuff going on in my personal life, and it was affecting my school work. I thought I had pulled it off by the end of the year. A C- or two but no Ds so I thought I was good.
Anyway, after getting home for the summer I went on a trip with my parents to check out Memorial University of Newfoundland. I don't feel bad about announcing this because I'm going to mention being in Newfoundland and they only have the one school with two campuses.
Anyway, I was thinking of doing my BEd at MUN so I wanted the check out both campuses. They were really lovely. But I just fell in love with SWGC. Which is the smaller campus. I announced on the tour I would be transferring, and spent most of the end of the tour and the trip making sure my parents weren't mad at my decision. They weren't. In fact, with my father retiring in the fall they liked to prospect of me attending a school that was 1/3 the cost of my current school.
Since Newfoundland only has the one school all the provincial and federal grants only have one school to go to in that province. That makes tuition much lower.
So I get home, and then I head back off to school to do an intensive Italian course to get my language credit. While I'm at school I put in my application by Fed Ex on May 14 since it's already very late to be applying for a Fall Transfer.
Right after I get my application put in to Memorial I get an e-mail from my current school. It's from the Emergency Text Messaging Service saying my phone is no longer subscribed because my student status has changed. So I check my status online and discover I'm in "Academic Dismissal" for my GPA from the last semester. You see it turns out that while a C- is a 1.7 I need to maintain a 2.0 to stay in good standing. Now, I haven't heard from the registrar's office yet. There have been no calls and no e-mails. This only makes me want the transfer more. So I call my parents and tell them. It was the single hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.
The dismissal is really just a 12 month suspension, so whether the transfer was through or not, I wasn't going to be back in September. On May 27, I get an e-mail from my current school indicating since I was only a tiny bit under the dismissal GPA, they will allow me to return full time in the fall. However, they want me to only do four credits, and one must be full year. There are no full year History Courses in my concentration, so I have to grab an English Credit. This puts me two credits behind on my major requirements. Having planned the last two years of my degree only to have room for one elective, this would cause me to have to take a sixth year instead of a fifth.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= Only my semester GPA was low. Also the school I'm transferring to takes stock of your grades from high school as well as your university grades. My grades from high school are great, the marks from my first five semesters at my current university is fine.
High school didn't have much in the way of history and it took my first two years of school to realized I wanted to specialize in History. Which means that I had to cram four years of a major into three, including the fifth year.
June 2 I receive an e-mail from MUN informing me my application has been received. They send me a breakdown of my information and ask if there are any mistakes. I have highlighted the mistakes in blue.
Degree: Bachelor of Science(SWGC)
Faculty/School: Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
Major/Specialization: Historical Studies
Campus: St. John's
The campus should be SWGC, which is hilarious because it's written in two other spots.
The Degree should be Bachelor of Arts (SWGC)
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= They made a mistake in typing up the campus. They are not trying to make me go to the wrong campus. Sir Wilfred Grenfell is the school I want to attend.
Anyway it is following this that people really start to pester about whether I have heard from MUN again, I keep yelling that I heard from them on June 2, and don't freak out. It is also at my time that two of my best friends at SWGC inform me that I will be living with them come September. Which I calms me down a lot, but since i haven't gotten my housing information yet nor my acceptance I worry about their planning. They actually have a really great plan, I'm just worried. Also, our fourth roommate changed her cell phone number right before summer. We don't know her father's number, so we can't get a hold of her. And she is never on the internet. I really don't want my living with her to be a surprise. That would be bad.
So Italian is winding down now. But it's so much more intense. As a full credit it takes 8 months to complete and they do 10 chapters. We have to do the same amount of chapters in 7 weeks. So the last two weeks are double chapter weeks. Not to mention that next week I have a test, a class dinner, my oral, a vocabulary quiz and my final. Plus, all the homework for these chapters, and I might be a little behind on last week's work.
So yesterday I get a call from Dad on my way to my waxer. There is a letter from MUN, my heart is beating like a hummingbird's wings. They are writing to inform me that I need to send my final transcript from my current school. I spend all day to day headhunting for whoever is responsible for my suffering. However, I only talk to the registrars that I'm friends with so that I don't freak out at them. According to my records, my transcripts were sent. I'm baffled.
So I call MUN the woman who answers the phone greets me with a "What do you think you are doing?" She then quickly apologizes and informs me that she had just gotten off the phone with her son and thought I was him calling again. I tell her about my problem. She tells me exactly what the logical part of my brain had been screaming all day. They need my final transcript from my current school so they can transfer the credits. That would also include the credit I'm currently working on. I'm to have my transcript sent again once I complete my Italian class.
I'm really antsy to know. Because I have to edit all of my financial aid of I'm switching schools. Plus, I need to pay to register to my current school for the fall if I'm not accepted to MUN.
On top of all of this, I still need to find work for July and August. My dad is retiring soon so we need to be tight on cash. The power company broke our house. Though they are buying us new stuff to replace all the things that were destroyed. Like our computer, fridge, etc. My parents want me to help get my brother into upgrading, because despite being much smarter than I, the boy slacked his way through high school and doesn't have the marks even to get into a really low end school.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= Yes, the money forecast is bad. Hence why I'm trying to go to a less expensive school. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to clarify here.
Oh, and my medication is giving me mood swings. I get to switch to new pills on the night of June 28th, which consequently is the day I go home for the rest of the summer.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= The medication I am on until the end of the month is giving me mood swings. So my doctor is changing my medication. This medication is not a psychiatric medication. I don't really want to discuss it's purpose, but basically a side effect of the pills can be mood swings, in which case you should talk to your doctor about switching medication. I will be starting new pills at the end of the month. I hope that makes sense
Oh and the people that know are divided into three groups.
1) I'm so happy for you, you need this change. And we really want you in NFLD
2) Well, I want you to be happy, but I'll miss you like crazy
3) I really don't understand why you're leaving. It won't do you any good. And did you think about ME in all your planning
Anyway, I just had to get that all out. I just feel like screaming, but I can't. STRESS!
Moreover, I kind of feel a little alone in all this.
Okay so this is a secret. But I'm trying to transfer schools. The closer I get to the process being done the more people I tell, but only very few people who I'm close to know. I don't see the point in telling them I'm leaving if I end up staying. Also, my mom's family is really critical so I don't need to give them fodder.
However, I'm starting to get a little stressed out, so I thought I'd blurt it all to you my fellow CSers. This is the WHOLE story, which only my parents and a few close friends know about.
So this past year of school was pretty bad. There was a lot of social drama, class drama, and I was struggling. I wasn't dealing well with all of the stuff going on in my personal life, and it was affecting my school work. I thought I had pulled it off by the end of the year. A C- or two but no Ds so I thought I was good.
Anyway, after getting home for the summer I went on a trip with my parents to check out Memorial University of Newfoundland. I don't feel bad about announcing this because I'm going to mention being in Newfoundland and they only have the one school with two campuses.
Anyway, I was thinking of doing my BEd at MUN so I wanted the check out both campuses. They were really lovely. But I just fell in love with SWGC. Which is the smaller campus. I announced on the tour I would be transferring, and spent most of the end of the tour and the trip making sure my parents weren't mad at my decision. They weren't. In fact, with my father retiring in the fall they liked to prospect of me attending a school that was 1/3 the cost of my current school.
Since Newfoundland only has the one school all the provincial and federal grants only have one school to go to in that province. That makes tuition much lower.
So I get home, and then I head back off to school to do an intensive Italian course to get my language credit. While I'm at school I put in my application by Fed Ex on May 14 since it's already very late to be applying for a Fall Transfer.
Right after I get my application put in to Memorial I get an e-mail from my current school. It's from the Emergency Text Messaging Service saying my phone is no longer subscribed because my student status has changed. So I check my status online and discover I'm in "Academic Dismissal" for my GPA from the last semester. You see it turns out that while a C- is a 1.7 I need to maintain a 2.0 to stay in good standing. Now, I haven't heard from the registrar's office yet. There have been no calls and no e-mails. This only makes me want the transfer more. So I call my parents and tell them. It was the single hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life.
The dismissal is really just a 12 month suspension, so whether the transfer was through or not, I wasn't going to be back in September. On May 27, I get an e-mail from my current school indicating since I was only a tiny bit under the dismissal GPA, they will allow me to return full time in the fall. However, they want me to only do four credits, and one must be full year. There are no full year History Courses in my concentration, so I have to grab an English Credit. This puts me two credits behind on my major requirements. Having planned the last two years of my degree only to have room for one elective, this would cause me to have to take a sixth year instead of a fifth.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= Only my semester GPA was low. Also the school I'm transferring to takes stock of your grades from high school as well as your university grades. My grades from high school are great, the marks from my first five semesters at my current university is fine.
High school didn't have much in the way of history and it took my first two years of school to realized I wanted to specialize in History. Which means that I had to cram four years of a major into three, including the fifth year.
June 2 I receive an e-mail from MUN informing me my application has been received. They send me a breakdown of my information and ask if there are any mistakes. I have highlighted the mistakes in blue.
Degree: Bachelor of Science(SWGC)
Faculty/School: Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
Major/Specialization: Historical Studies
Campus: St. John's
The campus should be SWGC, which is hilarious because it's written in two other spots.
The Degree should be Bachelor of Arts (SWGC)
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= They made a mistake in typing up the campus. They are not trying to make me go to the wrong campus. Sir Wilfred Grenfell is the school I want to attend.
Anyway it is following this that people really start to pester about whether I have heard from MUN again, I keep yelling that I heard from them on June 2, and don't freak out. It is also at my time that two of my best friends at SWGC inform me that I will be living with them come September. Which I calms me down a lot, but since i haven't gotten my housing information yet nor my acceptance I worry about their planning. They actually have a really great plan, I'm just worried. Also, our fourth roommate changed her cell phone number right before summer. We don't know her father's number, so we can't get a hold of her. And she is never on the internet. I really don't want my living with her to be a surprise. That would be bad.
So Italian is winding down now. But it's so much more intense. As a full credit it takes 8 months to complete and they do 10 chapters. We have to do the same amount of chapters in 7 weeks. So the last two weeks are double chapter weeks. Not to mention that next week I have a test, a class dinner, my oral, a vocabulary quiz and my final. Plus, all the homework for these chapters, and I might be a little behind on last week's work.
So yesterday I get a call from Dad on my way to my waxer. There is a letter from MUN, my heart is beating like a hummingbird's wings. They are writing to inform me that I need to send my final transcript from my current school. I spend all day to day headhunting for whoever is responsible for my suffering. However, I only talk to the registrars that I'm friends with so that I don't freak out at them. According to my records, my transcripts were sent. I'm baffled.
So I call MUN the woman who answers the phone greets me with a "What do you think you are doing?" She then quickly apologizes and informs me that she had just gotten off the phone with her son and thought I was him calling again. I tell her about my problem. She tells me exactly what the logical part of my brain had been screaming all day. They need my final transcript from my current school so they can transfer the credits. That would also include the credit I'm currently working on. I'm to have my transcript sent again once I complete my Italian class.
I'm really antsy to know. Because I have to edit all of my financial aid of I'm switching schools. Plus, I need to pay to register to my current school for the fall if I'm not accepted to MUN.
On top of all of this, I still need to find work for July and August. My dad is retiring soon so we need to be tight on cash. The power company broke our house. Though they are buying us new stuff to replace all the things that were destroyed. Like our computer, fridge, etc. My parents want me to help get my brother into upgrading, because despite being much smarter than I, the boy slacked his way through high school and doesn't have the marks even to get into a really low end school.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= Yes, the money forecast is bad. Hence why I'm trying to go to a less expensive school. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to clarify here.
Oh, and my medication is giving me mood swings. I get to switch to new pills on the night of June 28th, which consequently is the day I go home for the rest of the summer.
EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION= The medication I am on until the end of the month is giving me mood swings. So my doctor is changing my medication. This medication is not a psychiatric medication. I don't really want to discuss it's purpose, but basically a side effect of the pills can be mood swings, in which case you should talk to your doctor about switching medication. I will be starting new pills at the end of the month. I hope that makes sense
Oh and the people that know are divided into three groups.
1) I'm so happy for you, you need this change. And we really want you in NFLD
2) Well, I want you to be happy, but I'll miss you like crazy
3) I really don't understand why you're leaving. It won't do you any good. And did you think about ME in all your planning
Anyway, I just had to get that all out. I just feel like screaming, but I can't. STRESS!
Moreover, I kind of feel a little alone in all this.
. I've also been in college when my anti depressants stopped working and I almost did something permanent.
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