Buy 239 get one free
A couple of weeks ago, amid spewing out essays, I was relieved that I would finally be completing five years of Science/Arts and moving onto honours. Only, when I went to hand in my honours application, I couldn’t be found on the list of students qualifying to graduate. Hmm…
It turns out that while I could pass first and second-year maths without a problem, primary school arithmetic had let me down. My transcript listed 239 credit points. I needed 240 to graduate or go onto honours. Whoops!
So the Science Faculty started offering: well, we might be able to do something about it… but if you want to start honours next semester you could just do a summer course. But I’m a bit busy over summer with an internship. Maybe we could count your internship? You could write a 1 credit point report comparing university and workplace… Of course I won’t be able to say anything with my non-disclosure agreement. It is certainly unlikely that you can get through without some sort of filler—we only do that if the faculty messes up, not the student. I guess it’s an essay on Google without saying anything, then. I can write it on the plane to Israel for Simon’s wedding.
In the end, they brought it to the faculty management meeting, and the dean gave me a free credit point because my transcript looked good enough without it. Thanks Dean Day! Savings in money, time and stress. (For the faculty too, probably.)
So now I’ve finished my exams, start work on Monday, and am otherwise occupied with weddings and 1001 projects running around my mind from music to web sites to Judaism to a mix of all three. And I’m thrilled and excited and all that. Bring on honours 2008!
Lucky you. I had a similar mix-up myself once. I wanted to study Classical Hebrew back when I was doing a BA in Communication and they told me not to because I already had enough subjects. When the time came for me to graduate, I wasn’t on the list. I spoke to the head of department and all she could say was, “Sorry, we added them up incorrectly. Looks like you should have done Hebrew”. Grrr. They ended up counting my first sex months in yeshiva instead.
Comment by Simon Holloway — 16 November, 2007 @ 6:09 am
That should read “first six months”, by the way.
It wasn’t that kind of yeshiva.
Comment by Simon Holloway — 16 November, 2007 @ 9:21 am