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Things I shouldn't be dealing with while in Nica
August 13, 2006 ( grad )
I am now only registered for exactly one course for the fall.
I #$&%@$%!* hate GWU and their lack of information about courses. I am not in a position to pay 20% or 80% or whatever of course-drop fees and over-subscribe to courses so as to find one that works and drop the rest after the first class. And I can't even do that, or sneakily attend first classes, because they all overlap one another anyhow.
Why can't they have reasonable descriptions online? In what world does someone invest that many hours of in class and out-of-class time, as well as pay almost $3k, on the basis of a bland sentence, especially when time and absolute number of courses to take is somewhat limited? I want CVs, syllabi, topics covered, reading lists, and ideally student reviews and UT-style slam tables, damnit.
Why can't I take half the courses in the International Dev Studies program? Why does my "advisor" wait until Aug 12 to tell me that he's kicking me out of an IDS course that I wasn't supposed to register for, instead of, well, when I was registering (during midterms and such) back in the spring?
I didn't really expect to find courses in IT and development, but not being able to find courses in either IT OR development really makes me regret my investment in stress, time and money, as well as going deeply in debt (for the first time in my life) for GWU.
P.S. Why does this have to be happening while I'm in Nicaragua?
P.P.S. Nicaragua, apart from this, is great. Hot, dusty, and muggy, but hey.
Posted by griffjon at August 13, 2006 09:55 PM
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