This is a recap of how much I have been annoyed and frustrated by this school's system.
First, I transferred losing 18 credits
- It took weeks and weeks before I was able to actually have a schedule I can say it was fixed.
- I was told to go here and there to get this and that
Second, registering for this past spring '08 was a pain!
- I had to take some courses that I had already taken at SBU
- ENGLISH lvl 2 AGAIN?!?!
- Only class I enjoy this sem. is MGMT (sucking up lol) but really, it's true
Now I'm trying to register for classes for Fall '08 and my registration date was this past Monday.
How many classes did I register for that actually went towards graduation requirements??
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All classes are full!!! This school, as of now is basically making me take a semester off by default.
The classes that I'm signed up for in the fall is "Intro to Acting" lol, and ACC2203. I don't even know anymore what to do. I'm gonna get the worst teachers, hurt my gpa, but graduate on time, or I can take 5 bullshit classes each semester until everything clears up and I will be finally able to register classes on time.
BULLSHIT, SO DAMN FRUSTRATED!!!
3 comments:
Raymond, a title of a baccalaureate degree from Baruch College, M.I.T., or any other school is superficial. A degree is just a title. What is more important is the substance, the content, the stuffs that tells what you are made of as a person, your fundamental character, your values, your knowledge, skills and judgments that comes from experience of life, and your health, mentally, physically, and socially.
In the near future, the "A" students are going to work for their managers, the "B" students. On top of the "B" students, the "C" students are the executives of the company. So what about the "D" students? Well, the "D" students are the founders of these companies. Now, who is to say this future is no possible? No one. Not even the professors, the school administration, or even the higher super human being, God.
May be if God exists, and God holds the power of your future, then God can control you. It takes that kind of super power to control your future. So not only a human being can not control your destiny, but also if you are not doing anything wrong, he or she has no right to do it.
On a piece of paper call the Constitution of the United States, there are 10 amendments called the Bill of Rights, and among them Amendment 9 guarantees your natural fundamental rights that includes what is written in the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, the Pursuit of Happiness.
Besides life and liberty, no one has the right to stop you from your pursuit of happiness. Since you paid your tuition, or the government paid your tuition to the school in your name, you are the customer and consumer of this entire CUNY, including those imitatively Donald Trump like egotistical people on the 13 floor. They should not be misusing or wasting your tuition paid by you or the government to deny you from taking the classes you want to take and make you take useless classes. That is what can get them getting sue by you the consumer, the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection, the State Attorney General, the class action of all the disgruntled unfairly treated students, and you again, as a student, an individual human being living on the land of United State whose supreme governing law is the U.S. Constitution. I think if you proceed and write your letters to your district council, local congress person, city council, representatives, your state senators, your attorney general, and state that you are a constituent, many if not all of them are going help you, especially if you mention that you are a constituent. I think you also should get other student to join you or petition with you in building a class action, while at the same time beware of informant. However at this time, I do not think even if there is informant, there would be any harm in seeking help to bring a case that has affect and can bring a change to many students. You are not the only one who is affected by this school's policy and the Zicklin requirement, many fellow students (those who started in Baruch College in the freshman year, transfer students, CUNY Baccalaureate students, international students, students who are taking course at Baruch from another school) are affected by the policy as well. The Zicklin requirement have to change or go away. This school is offering major in Public Policy, course in Business Policy, ethics, business laws, but at the same time the school has a policy that is unfair to many of the students that no one ever has take action to bring it out and to change it. What a shame! At least write to the local news paper and television news channels. Do something! Not someone do something, but it is I have to do something, and more importantly as a consumer, as a student, as a human being, as the future, as business leader, as voice and the force of change, together we have to do something. Are you dare to be in, or not?
We can try to gather a number of issues from different students, encourage those who are affected, together and bring them to the student government, informally then formally, however, I doubt the student government has the power to change anything because student government usually has a school administrative person preside over the committee meeting, watching and listening every move by the student, even influencing, controlling, and taking over the meeting of the student government.
Raymond, as for your major, here is the comment I responded to another student's blog that you might find helpful:
Forget about money, the external factor for a while, and think about the inherent factor about why a human being in the world have to work when you make this decision.
Imagine in a world in the near future where society does not use money at all, and that you can live comfortably without ever have to use money, at the same time in that world you are allow choose to work in a profession that you would like to or you can create your own profession, what would that profession be?
All I am asking you is to reflect and look internally into your heart, find what is in there and take it out, set it on fire with spark. I want you to follow your heart, and throw your entire self into it. That spark that you put into building up the fire is your passion, and that is what make you accelerate, moving faster, continue going, and keep you alive at the same time.
Since you can not look into the future and connect the dots forward, but only can look to the past and connect the dots of events backward, you might as well throw your whole self and everything you have into doing something you like to capture the future and make your own history.
Everything you do now have a consequential effect on your future, but you would not know until you look backward.
In that case, in anything you do, you really have to do something you love, whether it is for looking for a career, for a lover, or other thing in life. Do not settle. Do not settle for something less of what you love or even you do not like, do not give up, keep going until you find what you love.
Just as you would not settle and marry a person you do not love and live with that person 50, 60, 80 years or for the rest of your life, you should not settle for a job or something you do not love. I am not telling you to look for "the perfect one." No human being is perfect, so is true for any job or life itself. However, you have to find what you love, one that you love so much that even if there is imperfection you would still love it with all your heart.
Often times if you ask people, "how many of you would like to change or have a change to the situation (issue, problem, etc.)," and many people would raise their hands or say "yes" and tell you that they would like to see a change. Then when you ask these people, "how many of you would actually go change the situation," and many people would cringe in silence.
In the words of our President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
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