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GRRR ... diploma dilemma

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Contributed by: James Fiebiger on 6/23/2007

OK. So the most messed up thing in the whole wide world happened to me on Wednesday.

I graduated in December of 2006 (from CU Boulder) ... or so I thought! ... On Wednesday, I learned that I was misinformed. I never graduated. My degree was never posted on my transcript! It came as a quiet kick in the nuts. The university never told me either. I only found out about this aggregious error from the MBA program I applied to at CU Denver. I was a shoe-in for acceptance into the 11 month intensive MBA program. But without a degree posted on my transcript, my file cannot be accepted.

Let's start from the beginning. In 2006, I went to my advisor, to go over my graduation packet. Ya know, to make sure I had everything in order to graduate. In fact, I even took an extra semester to avoid such a complication from happening. We even made my final semester's schedule together. We decided which class I should drop and which classI should add. We decided to add a geology class, and drop a difficult upper division math class. Somehow, an aggregious oversight occurred.

As soon as I found out about this HUGE problem, I spent hours and hours running all over campus -- from the math building to the advisor's office, to the regent building, back to the math building and so forth. I emailed everybody important who could find out what was wrong. I sent a few emails marked "URGENT!" to Carrie, but she never responded. Everybody else I talked to told me that I needed to talk to Carrie before I could proceed. Well, I am not one to give up so easily. I literally knocked on random doors, looking for somebody to help me. I talked to the Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs. I talked to the assistant director of Advising Operations of the College of Arts and Sciences. I talked to everybody. I am either famous... or infamous. Depends on how you look at it.

Well, I finally figured out what went wrong. It turns out thatI am 2 credits shy of the needed quality credit hours. I have 5 too many math credits and 2 too few non-math credits. I know,I know. Just 2 credits. But these 2 credits have left me sitting around for 6 months with my thumb up my butt, thinkinI was an alumni, while in actuality I never graduated.

Thank goodness I think I found out an easy solution to the problem. The worst case senario would be thatI would need to take a 2 credit summer class in anything other than math ... but that's the worst case. I think I found out the easiest practical solution. I took a class called History of Math. It was Math 4800. The highest number math class I ever took. Hopefully I can somehow change that class from being a math class to a history class. Then I will have enough non-math classes to get my degree. ThenI will get into the MBA prgram in Denver.

So I found out the problem... and I found an easy, reasonable solution. Now I just have to wait until I have all of my scheduled appointments. I am meeting with the Dean of Advisors, Ms. Guertin. But I have to wait idly until Wed.

The most ridiculous part of this whole "Diploma Dilemma" is how I am being treated by my advisor, Carrie. She has completely been ignoring me. No email responses. Her secretary scheduled an appointment with me yesterday at 2 p.m. But Carrie blew me off. I waited outside her dooor for 45 minutes before being told that she was not going to show up. I have never been treated so rudely. It seems to me that she knows that she is in deep doodoo. But igoring me does not seem like the best way to fix this huge problem. It certainly shows her character.

Anyway, I am not too worried. I am sure that I will be fine. I will get History of Math turned into history credits. Then I will get my degree posted on my trascript. Then I will get into CU Denver. The only thing that sucks is that I have to wait until Wednesday to fix this mess.

If you want to, please leave me words of sympathy in the comment boxes. And dont forget to rate me either... all 5 stars. (Please).

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James Fiebiger

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James Fiebiger has posted 25 blog entries and 9 comments since joining on 5/3/2007. James Fiebiger 's average blog rating is 4.88.

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