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College Blues
Jul. 27th, 2006 07:35 pmThe University of Alabama can bite me.
I got two letters from UA today, and both contained bad news. The first was from the University Honors Program (UHP), informing me that they have determined I have not made sufficient progress toward completing the UHP requirements, and have therefore been dropped from the honors program. This, alone, would not be that big a deal, as last fall I was planning to drop UHP of my own accord. The requirements are ridiculous; I'd have had to take about twelve hours of UHP classes, and every semester everything I wanted was full before I got a chance--until this spring, when I found out that a professor I really really like is teaching a UHP class on Alexander the Great in the fall. So I registered for that and stayed in the program, and now they've unceremoniously booted me. I'm in the middle of trying to find out whether or not this means I've been kicked out of the Alexander class I registered for fair and square, or what.
The second letter was from the parking office. The parking situation at Alabama is a total disaster. They're making all the freshmen live on campus (and they don't have enough rooms), the big new dorms aren't finished yet and don't have any parking, and they sell more commuter passes every year than they have total spaces. And the University's President, Robert Witt, has decided to make UA a 'pedestrian' campus and is eliminating the parking spaces within the university, including the highly prized ones in front of the library and around the Quad. Which is going to be really considered an excellent decision by, say, a nineteen-year-old girl who just wants to run into the library at ten o'clock at night to get a book, but has to walk a quarter mile in the dark from the parking deck.
And let's not even talk about home football games. God. I'm going to have to camp out in my car on campus the night before or walk or something.
This year, they didn't even tell us how much parking passes were going to cost before we applied for them. It's that bad. (Mine wound up costing over a hundred dollars, I believe.)
Anyway, my parking pass came today, and with it was a little slip of pink paper, cheerfully informing me that as a commuter, I may no longer park on the top level of the Ferguson deck, where I've been parking for over two years now. Rather, I must park in one of the bottom two levels of the deck, meaning I will be fighting for space with everyone else who was previously parking on the top three. Also, I may no longer use the entrance that I have always used, but must go around the corner and up the hill to the other, more annoying entrance. And also commuters are no longer allowed to park in the only large parking lot on that side of campus. They need all those spaces for the freshmen in unfinished Lakeside what has no parking, you see.
God, I hate my college so much right now.
EDIT: As far as myBama is concerned, I'm still registered for my Alexander the Great class. So that's one piece of good news.
I got two letters from UA today, and both contained bad news. The first was from the University Honors Program (UHP), informing me that they have determined I have not made sufficient progress toward completing the UHP requirements, and have therefore been dropped from the honors program. This, alone, would not be that big a deal, as last fall I was planning to drop UHP of my own accord. The requirements are ridiculous; I'd have had to take about twelve hours of UHP classes, and every semester everything I wanted was full before I got a chance--until this spring, when I found out that a professor I really really like is teaching a UHP class on Alexander the Great in the fall. So I registered for that and stayed in the program, and now they've unceremoniously booted me. I'm in the middle of trying to find out whether or not this means I've been kicked out of the Alexander class I registered for fair and square, or what.
The second letter was from the parking office. The parking situation at Alabama is a total disaster. They're making all the freshmen live on campus (and they don't have enough rooms), the big new dorms aren't finished yet and don't have any parking, and they sell more commuter passes every year than they have total spaces. And the University's President, Robert Witt, has decided to make UA a 'pedestrian' campus and is eliminating the parking spaces within the university, including the highly prized ones in front of the library and around the Quad. Which is going to be really considered an excellent decision by, say, a nineteen-year-old girl who just wants to run into the library at ten o'clock at night to get a book, but has to walk a quarter mile in the dark from the parking deck.
And let's not even talk about home football games. God. I'm going to have to camp out in my car on campus the night before or walk or something.
This year, they didn't even tell us how much parking passes were going to cost before we applied for them. It's that bad. (Mine wound up costing over a hundred dollars, I believe.)
Anyway, my parking pass came today, and with it was a little slip of pink paper, cheerfully informing me that as a commuter, I may no longer park on the top level of the Ferguson deck, where I've been parking for over two years now. Rather, I must park in one of the bottom two levels of the deck, meaning I will be fighting for space with everyone else who was previously parking on the top three. Also, I may no longer use the entrance that I have always used, but must go around the corner and up the hill to the other, more annoying entrance. And also commuters are no longer allowed to park in the only large parking lot on that side of campus. They need all those spaces for the freshmen in unfinished Lakeside what has no parking, you see.
God, I hate my college so much right now.
EDIT: As far as myBama is concerned, I'm still registered for my Alexander the Great class. So that's one piece of good news.
