Thursday, March 20, 2008

journalism is not a div III class

The week has been flying by. this may have something to do with the fact that I have a huge paper due next week and am dreading writing it this weekend.

EVERYTHING seems to be going on the first week in may. Girls and Women in Science (GWIS), a group I am a coordinator for is hosting their annual conference for 6th grade girls that weekend, and i am planing on running around like a maniac for the event. That same weekend is the international dinner, a dinner hosted by the international club for Beloit students and international host families. there is so much to plan for the event, and as I am on executive bored for that, i will be running around maniacally for that too....phew.

But i did get some good news today. I got this letter in the mail a few weeks ago saying i would not be eligible for junior status next year because I had not completed the division III requierments (to be a junior you need to have completed 2 math/science/ computer science (division I) credits, 2 social science (division II) credits, and 2 humanities (division III) credits). This came as quite a surprise, considering i had taken both and English class and a journalism class my junior year, so I wrote the registrars department saying they had made a mistake. they wrote me back saying there was not mistake, Journalism 'wasn't div III credit.

this seemed really stupid to me, as the journalism department is listed under the English department in the student handbook and all of my advisers had told me it did qualify as English credit (they are all science people...how were they to know?). so I had to write a letter to the registrar explaining my "excuse" for not completing the requirement and asking to be a Junior anyway.

they approved me. I am now going to be an official junior at the end of this year! i do, however, need to take a div III class next semester, which wont be an issue as I was going to take creative writing anyway.

1 comment:

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