This is some of the entertainment I have been dealing with this last semester of school:
So, two weeks ago over the course of two emails I coordinated a date and time for myself to meet with three professors for my comprehensive exam. The Administration decides they want to help me by telling me not to contact the professors until after spring break and that they will bring them together to come up with a schedule. I email them and say that it seems odd to wait two weeks to do what I have already done, which is to schedule a time. I never get a response to the email.
Two weeks later... I hear from the admin telling me that one of the professors would not be able to be on my committee because of scheduling issues. This was the chair of the committee, a professor I have had four classes with, and for whom I have spent the last two months studying for. They tell me to find another professor, which means I would have to relearn another semester worth of material in the three weeks I have until my comprehensive exam.
I call the admin and ask how it is possible that there is no time for everyone to meet in the two week time span that is available for exams. I tell them that prior to spring break I had come up with a time and date for us all to meet. The admin decides to present that time and date to the professors.
After I spend a week calling on a daily basis to find out their answers she tells me that the committee chair is available but a different professor isn't. I emailed the "unavailable" professor to double-check and to see if there was any way that he could make it. He tells me that Monday would work and he was confused because he thought it was to be scheduled on Tuesday.
So, they are all able to meet on the time and date that I came up with three weeks ago. I get an email from the admin today saying I still needed a third professor but that the exam was scheduled for Tuesday the 18th. And behold the problem. Apparently the admin is unaware that the 18th is a Monday. The sad part is this isn't an isolated incident by any means. Just prior to this I had to deal with them trying to tell me that I was short three hours to graduate. But at least it looks like this three week long fiasco is coming to an end.
On a brighter note, yesterday on Hwy 21 on my way to school I passed a car that was going very slow. Suddenly there are flashing lights behind me. It was an unmarked police car that I passed and now they were pulling me over. He didn't pull me over for speeding, it was for passing over a solid yellow line. There were no cars oncoming and it was down a large slope but apparently it was a construction zone. The officer was actually very nice. He didn't even give me a written warning. He told me that it would have cost me over $700 and not to do it again. I got very lucky.
