Buy now, pay later!

I was given a coupon for a free sandwich at Subway today and I was very excited. However, I failed to read the size 2 font at the bottom of the coupon that stated, "Must see the Chase representitive outside and completely participate in order to recieve free sandwich." As I steped up to a thirty-something looking, well-dressed man, I realized he was a henchman of the devil. "Are you here for the free sandwich? Fill these out." I look down to see not one, but three seperate credit card applications. I sit down with the applications in hand, and ponder the benefits for one free sandwich combo meal, which is worth 5 dollars, vs a lifetime of debt. I decided that the free combo meal was not worth, a. my time, b. my credit, and c. my soul. I walked back to the man in black and handed my unfinished applications back to him, "Sorry, it's actually not worth my time or credit history to apply for 3 different credit cards." As I walked away I think I saw a little tear form in the corner of his eye as he saw one soul escape his clutches. However, it was short lived as college students poured in the door and grabbed the applications, just so they could get one free sandwich.

Learning strategies

Jesus christ. I am sitting in the most bullshit class that I have ever been forced to take. I have been whiling my time away with internet and instant message... and it still is unbearable. This is the last freakin day and I can't wait for it to be over. Out of spite she sprung a fairly intensive quiz, complete with a study guide, at the last minute after canceling it the week before. Then she changed the format and made it into a bunch of essay questions rather than multiple choice. I just want to start screaming and yelling and thrashing around on the floor.

Why did I have the desire to speed through 6 years of school without a break? I have not had a summer off of school since high school, and I am really starting to feel its effects! As I sit here and contemplete not doing two major assignments and skipping class tomorrow in honor of my birthday, I realize that I should have taken a year off to relax. I have my eyes focused on spring break, 16 more days!

Incompetence

When I registered for our Spring classes, I found some inconsistancies with my printed schedule and the times she gave us. As you may rememeber our cohort leaders gave us that calendar with our future classes listed with the dates and times on it. Luckily, the lit people had their special methods class on Wed., directly after our other Wed. class. Than Leah sent out the email with the "correct" times and our class was listed as on Thursday. This messes up quite a few plans for people who have already thought out their term. However, I found that online the date shows it is indeed on Wednesday!

So I've been fighting with Leah about the correct times of the special methods class, as we have been give conflicting information, conflicting times and conflicting messages about it. I went to talk to Leah about it and got some of the confusing stuff about other classes straightened out, (did anyone else get signed up for LING 110? Yeah, they fixed that), and she told me that if the date is in Banner, the PSU webpage where we register for classes, then it is probably right.

But then she essentially retracted what she told me in a group email to the listserve, stating that the days in her original email were indeed correct. I decided to go to the Continuing Education office, where I incidently work at, and talked to a person who I figured woudl know what was going on. She gave me the email of our instructor and we both agreed that the instructor would be privy to what day the class was on since it affected her in a big way. The instructor replied and confirmed the date that was showing up on the my schedule was the correct date.
However, you may have noticed that Leah sent out an email approximetly 15 minutes after I sent mine out.

"I know you are trying to be helpful but in point of fact, the instructor apparently has not been apprised of the actual time and day of her class. The schedule I sent is confirmed and accurate."

I rechecked my online schedule and lo and behold, the date has been changed back to Thursday. Words cannot describe how utterly pissed off and jerked around I feel. Not only am I angry at Leah, but at the entire program for being so disorganized. At this point in time, after experiencing what Pat's class has been like up til yesterday, and the trying to work out assignments that do not seem to be easily doable in our schools, I WOULD NOT recommend anyone to join this cohort!

Now I know that by tomorrow I will have cooled off and will probably want to retract that statement, but I just want to know if anyone else ever feels like maybe we aren't getting everything we need to be successful due to the fact that this is the first time this program is being offered?
Alright, I am finished begin pissed off.