The Wire

... Yeah, so I lied about the post title... Get used to it. This post could have been called "ace up my sleeve" in reference to what I am about to explain, but I chose to display a... more realistic and in a less "It was part of the plan all along" sort of attitude.

So I recently finished my last semester, Woo-Hoo, but was quite stupefied to find that when my final grades came in something was dreadfully wrong. My on line transcript showed that I had met all of the requirements for graduation that the university had set... except one. Every required course was taken, my gpa was good, my major, minor, and concentration were complete, but somehow I had 119 credits (technically 137, but 18 of them do not count towards my "graduating credits"). University standard says that they do not award bachelors degrees without confirmed completion of a minimum of 120 graduating credits. This was a shock as I had done the math the semester beforehand to insure that I would in fact have everything covered, but somehow I ended up 3 credits behind where I had projected.

After sending emails to all the people I could, I ended up calculating that one of my classes last semester did not count towards my final graduating credit number... And there was nothing I could do about it.

Hahaha, luckily someone up there likes me, as I was able to do a last minute transfer of my high school AP credits (oh yeah, forgot about those) towards the completion of my current degree.

But get this, the diploma gets signed on the 3rd of Jan, 09, my credit transfer is completed on the 8th of Jan, 09, and my diploma ships home between the 20th of Feb and the 5th of Mar. It will never cease to astound and perplex me as to how such things work...

The best part is, after going in and talking with people from almost every department on campus, I have found that the english department has already sent my graduation approval through (haha, I knew I liked them, they will let me graduate without meeting the requirements) and the department of the registrar will postemptively approve my diploma somehow after the credits finish transferring. It makes no sense to me, but I'm just glad it was able to work out. It would have totally sucked to not graduate because EVERY requirement was met except 1 credit hour of class. But I could not have done it without the awesome people in the english department, especially the councilor who has answered my emails multiple times each day for the past two weeks including weekends.

So if it weren't official before, now it is, I will have a degree sometime between feb and mar.

Woot!