Hello everyone!

As some of you may have figured out by now, I am currently enrolled at a State University that is making my life miserable and my gastritis more welcome in my stomach.

I would love to blame them for my codependency, possible cholesteatoma, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and weight gain, but the truth is I can’t. You see, sometime during my Psychology class this semester I learned that environmental factors cam influence you but not determine your reactions… I guess me having anxiety is my very own problem and no one else’s.

Let’s review that for a minute: I have been attending the very same State University for a little over a year. I am obviously fluent in Spanish, both the written and spoken aspects of it and so I took the CLEP Test in order to not have to waste time and money taking classes I did not actually need. I also took some Spanish classes at a technical institute in the same town my university is, and would like to transfer them over so I can get credit for them.

My awesome adviser has submitted the paperwork to get approved about twice and it is yet to post on my records. According to what we can see online, my beloved State University wants me to take the courses all over again… Thinking I had a chance to make things right, I went to see my adviser, got him to sign the transfer request form for me, and later on I went to take it to the Interim Chair for the World Languages and Cultures Dept.For the 3rd time.

To make a long story short, I turned in my paperwork 2 weeks ago and today I find out the Chair’s secretary claims I never did turn in the forms and she would contact my adviser to get a new set of forms. I gues sit’s a good thing that I’m not graduating in may, otherwise I’ll be “out of luck”, since I’m looking to get credit for 6 classes.

I have been there ONE YEAR already: my classes are not new and neither are my CLEP Scores… WHAT is the issue?

If we had a university that was closer, I would SO go there. The one I’m in right now lacks customer service and the grand majority of the staff members just really does not care one bit.

I shall speak to my adviser on Wed. to try to get this sorted out and when I do, the Dept. Chair is going to have to listen to me. How can they be so quick in charging their fees but not quick to process paperwork? Gee, the paperwork is standard and from the same town! I would hate to think about what people coming from other countries have to go through,especially with translated transcripts.

Bottom line is: HOW can you be so mediocre and still hold a job? That is truly beyond me.

Thanks for reading & buenas noches,

Wen