12-18-2008, 02:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2008, 02:40 AM by Jonathan Meer.)
So I'm at risk of being suspended from my college because I was one short of the required number of chapels this last semester (25 out of 26). This is my fourth deficient semester (the others being 21 out of 28, 24 out of 28 and 25 out of 28 ).
The critical chapel I missed was on this last Monday, which would have put me at 26 out of 26, and which I slept through. The reason? My alarm clock never went off.
I e-mailed the Vice-President to see what would happen as a result of this, and she said she'd look into my file as to whether or not I can expect a hearing on my 'conduct'.
Which sucks immensely, because I happen to like my college.
On a different but somewhat related note, I've finally figured out what it is I want to do and can do: teach philosophy (like, professorally). I'm still set as a ministerial student, but I'll probably be removing that status here shortly. I've been talking to my German professor over the last few weeks about my difficulties in focusing on class and getting work done, and telling her about my ADD, and my concerns about medication, and she told me about a few professors at my college (without naming names) that had their careers saved by meds. So, now I'm rather optimistic about it, and will be looking into it over break.
I'm meeting with my Philosophy professor (a guy that graduated from Notre Dame, and could probably TEACH there, as brilliant as he is) tomorrow afternoon about these same concerns, and about grad school. He's rather encouraging about this route, and about those difficulties I've got as well. So I'm feeling rather good about my future in this direction.
And then, I get hit by this alarm clock fiasco. As it stands, I've got a lot of things going against me for this route (my cumulative GPA is 2.5, which is the definition of sub-par, though I tend to get A's in my 400-level philosophy classes, and poor grades in easy classes; financial woes too). If I get suspended, I have no idea what that will do for my future college career.
I'll clearly have to transfer out; if I'm not a full-time student for a semester, I have to start paying back loans, and I'm not so certain I could maintain a job for that and schoolwork at the same time. If I do transfer out with a sub-par GPA into a college where I have no connections to any professors, then what?
Needless to say, I'm concerned.
The critical chapel I missed was on this last Monday, which would have put me at 26 out of 26, and which I slept through. The reason? My alarm clock never went off.
I e-mailed the Vice-President to see what would happen as a result of this, and she said she'd look into my file as to whether or not I can expect a hearing on my 'conduct'.
Which sucks immensely, because I happen to like my college.
On a different but somewhat related note, I've finally figured out what it is I want to do and can do: teach philosophy (like, professorally). I'm still set as a ministerial student, but I'll probably be removing that status here shortly. I've been talking to my German professor over the last few weeks about my difficulties in focusing on class and getting work done, and telling her about my ADD, and my concerns about medication, and she told me about a few professors at my college (without naming names) that had their careers saved by meds. So, now I'm rather optimistic about it, and will be looking into it over break.
I'm meeting with my Philosophy professor (a guy that graduated from Notre Dame, and could probably TEACH there, as brilliant as he is) tomorrow afternoon about these same concerns, and about grad school. He's rather encouraging about this route, and about those difficulties I've got as well. So I'm feeling rather good about my future in this direction.
And then, I get hit by this alarm clock fiasco. As it stands, I've got a lot of things going against me for this route (my cumulative GPA is 2.5, which is the definition of sub-par, though I tend to get A's in my 400-level philosophy classes, and poor grades in easy classes; financial woes too). If I get suspended, I have no idea what that will do for my future college career.
I'll clearly have to transfer out; if I'm not a full-time student for a semester, I have to start paying back loans, and I'm not so certain I could maintain a job for that and schoolwork at the same time. If I do transfer out with a sub-par GPA into a college where I have no connections to any professors, then what?
Needless to say, I'm concerned.
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