On The Bus Back From School
Back into old routines, laptop and 99S.
So I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, and I'm trying to figure out what to do. If I take 325/326 during the summer, it'll completely devour my summer and I honestly can't figure out another class I could be taking. That means from May until August I'd be only taking one class. This is an incredibly expensive endeavour, because all of the work that I can do well is Mon-Fri 9-5 type stuff. I refuse to do shift work again because it pays so poorly and treats you so badly (and the idea of jeopordising my success in those classes for work that may not even pay the bills is so freaking rediculous). Most good jobs I could get are severely limited by this one-class during the day probably 3-5 days a week. This makes going to summer semester extremely expensive (both in lost wages, paying for living expenses, etc) and incredibly frustrating.
On the other hand, I've been told that 325-326-490-495 are core requisites and therefore must be all completed in that order and not concurrently, no exceptions. My only recourse at this point is to talk to the head of the Econ department, and then maybe chats with the dean and other bullshit. I'd be trying to convince them to let me take 326 this term and then retake 325 in the Fall concurrently with 490 (which is the "lecture" portion of the thesis). I've already taken 325, I just failed it. This would be a huge bending of the rules (taking them "out of order" as well as some concurrently, technically).
While I prefer the outcome of a successful "battle for unconventionality", I'm not sure I want to deal with the convincing itself. Not only do I not like exceptions to the rule, but UBC has a tendancy to be more forthcoming in rules bending for students that are doing well not students that just had a bad semester. The real question is which is greater? The dislike of the difficulty of convincing the right people that I should be allowed to significantly bend the rules (note, this may be impossible) or the extreme expense and frustration that two summer semesters of one course each would represent.
There are some interesting options coming to mind if I do do the summer semester (like maybe trying to get a volunteer position for the season at Verite or something) but it would be an expensive decision. Still weighing.
One of the large frustrations of this is that this is the only course that would have had this significant reprocussions and is the only one I didn't manage to pass. Sigh.
Alex put it best: "I was dealing with it then, I don't want to be still dealing with it now that it's over."