As you may or may not know, I walked in my college's graduation ceremony in May 2009, finished up the last class I needed in summer session to get my Bachelor of the Arts in English and went gallivanting off to Alaska for a week of R&R.
Come job hunt time, I can't find anything, but that's okay cause someone suggested I take the CBEST and become a substitute teacher cause at least that'll give me some money. So I take it and pass, and then get to thinking about my degree certificate and where it is.
So I call my school, thinking they're just being their usual inefficient selves and not sending out that piece of paper when
surprise I haven't graduated after all. Academic adviser: "But you've still got classes unfulfilled."
Um, excuse me, what the FUCK are you talking about? I have an academic adviser who sent me off to graduation with nary a thought that I had left a class unfulfilled. Fine, whatever. Tell me what class I need to complete. And how in the seven hells did I get the okay to graduate with that glaring hole? Dean of my college: "I'm sorry you feel like you haven't been advised properly. Ultimately it is the student's responsibility to know the requirements to graduate." Um, no, actually, I did my job. I looked at what I needed to graduate, I went to that senior year graduation check and got the green light to graduate. So someone else fucked up their job and now I'm taking it up the ass because of your incompetency. I was
17 when I started college and keeping track of what classes I needed in order to graduate. And I finished all my upper division courses at the end of my junior year and was taking filler classes and the lower division classes I needed. I have the credits, that's not an issue.
I've emailed them a lot just trying to find out what I need to do to fix this. Got some laughably unhelpful responses. And then they stopped responding. For over a week. I finally called another office and got some help, but this school is not cooperating with me. AT ALL.
I'm seriously tempted to go to the media to at least try to get them to help me out. I've called my academic adviser twice and gotten ZERO return calls. The only time this school is helping me is when I'm on the line and forcing the issue.
I don't know what to do.
fabrosaurus has pretty much spent the last two weeks waiting for me to throw myself off a bridge. Told my parents but fuck how do you tell your grandma something like this? AKA: Kailey's being a goddamn coward and not telling her grandma.
fml
tl;dr: School fucked me over. Angry. Trying to fix it. fml