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Posted on 01/16/2006 6:56:15 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I guess
Workin' for the weekend. I gots more meetings today. Means my report isn't getting written. Someone somewhere here on FR wondered how much more progress mankind might have made by now if that fool sometime back in history *hadn't* invented meetings.
Goood morning. Friday is getting closer....
~sigh~
Jr. just called. He fergot his bookbag...so much fer me gettin' to work on time.
Mornin'.
Must...find....coffee....
Remember how at the end of last semester they said he might have to do a "project" instead of a thesis, which required 6 more class hours? I was almost hoping that they would suggest that, because that would mean 6 more hours but done for certain. Then they said his thesis was do-able, and that he didn't need any more hours.
My fear is, they're going to make him take these two more hours, then come the end of the semester, tell him the paper still is not good enough and he has to turn it in as a project. It's a scam! A ponzy scheme or something!
We talked way late last night...he's going to call and say he was told that his classwork was done last semester and that they were just waiting for him to turn in the thesis so that he could graduate retroactively in December. So he *would* have taken the 2 required hours the semester he graduated...not this semester, but last.
Does that make sense? He has to have 2 credits the semester he graduates.
It's a stretch, I know.
Yeah, that makes sense. I hope you can work it!
Doesn't sound like too much of a stretch to me, chica.
He has the credits - maybe they just haven't applied them properly.
Hello Kim!
It was wonderful to receive a note from you and to spend the last hour or so reading through the Hobbit Hole website. Wow, over 1500 knives! It's great to see the great Americans of the Hobbit Hole continuing to support Soldiers. Unfortunately, my CRKT silver folding knife mysteriously "disappeared" shortly before I left Fort Bragg. I'm not quite sure what happened to it. Bummer! Thank you and the Hobbit Hole so much for your gifts.
The [Chaplain] clan moved to Mannheim, Germany last summer. As you can see from my Signature below, I'm serving with MPs now. We have a great team here. We've had the opportunity to see a great deal of Europe already (Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria). As you can see from the attached picture, I had the privilege of going to midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and see the new Pope. Definitely a once in a lifetime experience!
I hope all is well in OK. I scrolled through your VW Bug blog. What's the latest?
Thank you again for your prayers and support.
Blessings,
Chaplain, 95th MP Battalion
Superstars!
Wow! Great picture he sent ya, sis.
He's lost his knife though. We'll have to remedy that situation. ;-)
Cool! Midnight Mass with the Pope!
Pretty neat, huh?
It's always good to hear from him.
That's fine if he calls, but he still needs to put the whole history of this in writing, send it to the department, and keep a copy for himself. He's really been jerked around with this, and someone's feet need to be held to the fire about it.
They're not buying it. I knew they wouldn't. He got a snarky email back from the secretary saying "You know what you need to do to graduate".
I just feel like there's no point talking to anyone or even bothering to complain...they're a club of good ol' boys...all in cahoots, from the secretary to the advisor to dean to the president of the university. It's maddening, because there IS NO RECOURSE. If you rock the boat, they just make it harder. And you can't prove it...you're a troublemaker.
He hasn't complained because he can see how it works...so he's not branded a troublemaker yet. If he pushes this issue, we really fear how it will end.
I told him last night I still wanted him to go through the graduation ceremonies, but not for my sake...for the boys. So they can see their dad graduate. I can not bear the thought of him not graduating him this spring, when he could have if he'd only done the project instead of the thesis and graduated for sure.
I keep thinking that if can just graduate we can put this all behind us and move on. Some day, surely, he will!!
If they will just approve the dang thesis, it would go a long way in making me feel better!
He's going to Stillwater again on Friday. Meeting the snarky secretary about signing up for 2 more hours and also meeting with his committee.
Ok...I'm gonna quit talking about it now. As frustrating as it is to me, it must be more so for my friends here who can really not do anything.
It does help me to talk about it, though...and that's doing something.
Vent away! I can't imagine how frustrating this whole thing is for you and Steve. :-/
I'll keep him in my prayers, 2J, and put him back on top of the Parish Prayer list. I know this is maddening!
That's just so sad! The secretary here, in charge of graduate students, is such a wonderful lady. She keeps our paperwork straight and alerts us about forms we didn't even know about, and knows everyone's personal life. And most of our professors are good people who are interested in seeing you succeed.
It seems really weird that the department there isn't interested in making sure students get their degrees, or get them in good time. Those statistics are really important in ranking a department, I'd think they'd try to keep them up.
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