I imagine you want this sorted out pretty quickly? Part VIII
I was commenting on Dora’s blog when I came to an unfortunate realization that has a little to do with this entire mess of my dept screwing up my grad application paperwork and then me having to apply to graduate again.
During the Spring of 2006, I was supposed to graduate and I had no intention of attending the large UW commencement ceremony. I would’ve, however, possibly attended my departmental graduation had I known about the goddamn thing but I never once received an email or message letting me know “hey, you’re graduating so come to Padelford on Saturday with your family!” I only learned about this until it was pretty much too late from a friend (who wasn’t even graduating but knew) and by then I was a little too miffed to attend. It was a good thing I didn’t because they would’ve looked at me like “who are you? we don’t have you down on the list of graduating seniors” which would’ve looked great in front of my family.
So after putting two and two together, I realized that I never got invited to the damn thing because I was never on their list of graduating seniors in the first place because, yes, since my dept advisor “misplaced” my grad app, to them it looked like I just wasn’t graduating. God. Damn. It.
OK, i’m going to be honest here. The department advisor for AES is an incompetent stone statue who is seen only as a fixture of AES and respected for what I imagine is some great work she did a while ago. Fine, great for her. I am not kidding you when I say she’s pushing an age where most folks are well on their way into the nursing home years and I really admire that she wants to work and be a contributing member but when you can’t do your goddamn job properly, when you don’t even know how to use email and insist that anyone who wants to communicate with you see you in person, that’s some serious bullshit. The AES dept is already seen as the liberal arts dump and it’s just made that much worse by someone like this who is the first and last person you talk to when you want to major in AES.
Fuckers.