Ok. Just got a more positive e-mail in my inbox. This weekend I emailed a cover letter and resume for a public relations/communications internship at a big well-known and well-respected non-profit in the area. I already heard back from the Director of Public Relations. She wants to set up an interview as soon as possible. YAY!

If the project was approved, then someone needs to guide you through it, or at least, be willing to give a damned grade when it's done.

Yes, this! Stupid academic-politics-immature bullshit.

Honey, this is when you bypass all of the minions and go straight to the top, to the dean of your particular college and if they can't help, then whoever's above him/her.

Seconding this recommendation.

Ok. Just got a more positive e-mail in my inbox. This weekend I emailed a cover letter and resume for a public relations/communications internship at a big well-known and well-respected non-profit in the area. I already heard back from the Director of Public Relations. She wants to set up an interview as soon as possible. YAY!

Yay!

Actually, that's not a half-bad idea, Barb. I know and like the Assistant Dean quite a lot. She has been amazingly helpful in the past. I'm going to take one more stab with the current department head, and if she isn't more willing, then I will do that. Thank you.

Honey, this is when you bypass all of the minions and go straight to the top, to the dean of your particular college and if they can't help, then whoever's above him/her.

Seconding this recommendation.

Third.

We had someone like this in one of my departments. He was famous for it - the problem was that the faculty could mutter all they wanted. The deans didn't move until a student, with a follow up from the parents (Jesuits, I tell you...) started documenting. You have his comments in email form? USE THEM.

Because this is BULLSHIT. No one wants to take responsibility, you show them what happens when they don't.

What she said. I'm sorry this is so frustrating, vw.

Looks like all the flights have departed Miami, so Kristin should be on her way. It's pouring and the sprinklers are running in the soccer fields across the street.

Oh, yeah. I have all communication on this.

The biggest problem/weirdest thing is that the class has actually disappeared from my class audit/transcript, so I'm going to need someone to advocate to get it put back. Fortunately, I also have documentation that it did at one time exist. Or, actually, the Honors department does, and the dept. coordinator will do anything for me :).

It's a weird, complicated situation, and I just want someone to stand up and say, "Oh! Let's get this taken care of and finished so you can graduate!" And no one seems to care, which is such a different attitude than I usually get at this university. I've been spoiled, I guess.

Ok. Enough bitching. I have an interview scheduled with the director of public relations at said non-profit for next Tuesday. YAY!

I'm going to take one more stab with the current department head, and if she isn't more willing, then I will do that.

No prob. I think, especially at the uni level, that some professors seem to get off on playing God and forget that in essence, it's the students who pay their salary and so therefore, they have as much accountability to us as we do to them. When I was in grad school I had a professor give me a final C in a class I had received near perfect grades in for no other reason than she didn't like me. (She was dumb enough to say it to me.) Because she was the head of the dept., she thought she could get away with it.

A week later, she was sitting in the office of the Dean of Education along with the University president explaining how it had all been "just a misunderstanding and really, Barbara's one of the best students in the department," and my grade was changed to the A it should've been in the first place. By the next fall she was no longer the head of the department and by the next spring, she was let go. Turns out I wasn't the only student she'd done this to-- I was just the first one who'd had the balls to take her on.

vw, the class disappeared? That is really odd. But then, it can't be an incomplete either (if it doesn't exist.)

A week later, she was sitting in the office of the Dean of Education along with the University professor explaining how it had all been "just a misunderstanding and really, Barbara's one of the best students in the department," and my grade was changed to the A it should've been in the first place. By the next fall she was no longer the head of the department and by the next spring, she was let go. Turns out I wasn't the only student she'd done this to-- I was just the first one who'd had the balls to take her on.

Oh, wow!

vw, the class disappeared?

Yeah! It is so odd. When I told the coordinator of the honors department she didn't believe me. She was like, "This has never happened before! So many students would WISH this would happen to their incompletes!"