crisis!

so i’m having a HUGE crisis at a time when i really don’t need anything else to stress out about.

this story starts back when i went to get advised for the spring semester way back in november 2005. i was told i needed 14 more hours to graduate so i’d have to take a 15 hour course load. four of those courses were degree requirements so couldn’t be taken pass/fail. so i was going to be able to take one class fail. of course the advisor said i could take a class pass/fail BUT i couldn’t. my elective was in the college of communication and it’s impossible to take a class pass/fail in the college of communication unless it’s only offered pass/fail.

fast forward a few months … so i found out that i couldn’t take it pass/fail back in march. oh well i figured, if i just made a D and got the credit i needed (since it was just elective and i just needed the hours) then i would be fine. so after some thought i began worrying that if a D doesn’t count towards degree requirements would it still count for the number of credit hours i need towards a diploma. of course my worst fears were confirmed when i found a disclaimer hidden in some degree requirement sheets that they don’t count towards total degree credit hours. so if i get a D in this class i end up with 142 credit hours, 2 hours short of the 144 i need to graduate with both degrees. i still have enough for one of my degrees and i have all the requirements completed for both degrees, it’s just the fact that i need 144 total hours to get both degrees.

okay so here’s the big problem: so i didn’t do as well as i had hoped on the last exam in that class and i’m 5 points short of a C in that class. now i’m not so much concerned about that, if i studied hard enough i’m sure i could do well enough on the final. if i took the exam and scored a 70 then it would replace my exam grade and i’d get my C in the class. the problem: the optional final is scheduled for friday may 12 @ 2pm, the day i’m supposed to be in chicago looking for an apartment. i am so screwed. how do i get myself into these situations? i know i have no one to blame but myself but wow, i really didn’t need this right now. now i’m really regretting not doing the extra credit research participation assignments.
so now i’m freaking out. i e-mailed the professor and the TA, maybe he’ll be nice enough to let me take the final early.

i took a shot of tequila and half an anxiety pill. there’s no way i’d be able to sleep without something to stop this panic attack i feel coming on.

here’s hoping everything turns out alright.

damn and i thought my last day of college was going to be exciting, now i’m just going to be stressed out over this.

until later.