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All for the sake of half an hour

January 12th, 2007 at 11:08pm craig

Last semester was a nightmare. Through various reasons I missed a lot of the first month or two of classes and struggled to catch up. I ended finals weeks thinking there was no way to graduate in April. If I didn’t graduate in April, I had no funding to carry on, without being enrolled full-time I would be out of status for my visa and forced to leave the country which meant probably never graduating.

Then a couple of doors opened and all of a sudden I seemed to be back on track for an April graduation. It would mean however doing 19.5 credit hours this semester and having to get at least B+ across the board in all subjects. Given I’d also be working 10 hours a week and looking after the children, this was going to be tough going, but it was doable and therefore something I could work for.

Then came a meeting with one of the department assistant directors. It turns out that an assumption I was making was incorrect. In order to graduate I needed 64 credit hours. Of those only 3 could be at a grade C, the rest had to be higher. I had already got 2 credit hours at grade C and gained a grade C in two 1.5 credit hour classes last semester. I had assumed I could take an hour from those 3 hours to count towards the 64 hours. But no. Unfortunately they can not split the hours for a class. So I would have to take 1.5 hours which would place me over the maximum 3 hours of grade C which is not allowed. Without the extra hour I would only have 63 credit hours and so be short one hour to graduate.

So I am back to not being able to graduate in April and possibly not being able to graduate at all. Being so close and yet so far from graduating is frustrating to say the least.

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