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!"

VW, best of luck. Geez what a strange situation!

:: kermit waves :: to PixK! I hope you make connecting flight.

My super long day begins as soon as I get my ass in the shower.

My concern vw is that it's deeply wrong to let a student do the amount of work you've done and not oversee its completion. I can see how it's more communications than English, but that was built into it from the get-go, shouldn't be a surprise.

Part of me feels like this is the life of a researcher...isn't it always a challenge to get other people involved/interested in your work?

You are getting good advice,vw. good luck!

travel ma~~~ kristin

Ugh! All of the sudden this morning our pipes started making awful noises and now we have a huge leak in our ceiling. Our upstairs neighbor is not home and our landlord won't call back. Oh, and we no longer have any hot water.