I hate when people give me the run around.

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The day I found out I didn't pass my Nursing 114 class I filled out the paperwork for reentry. When I found out I passed my Nursing 115 class I went to talk to an advisor to see about time frame for finding out if I was in the class. I was advised to go to the nursing office to see if they could give me permission. I spent nearly a week in phone tag and no one in the office with the nursing office before they arranged for me to talk to an advisor that did know the nursing clincals. She told me that the person who would decide who got seats in the fall was on vacation for a week.

I waited two weeks and two days. I went in today to see if I could get a time frame for when someone was going to get back to me. The line was long and they had another student trying to get people quick answers. She took my paperwork, talked to a female advisor (the one who had been on vacation) and came back. This advisor needs to coordinate with another advisor about the seats and he went on vacation when she came back so he won't be back till the 15th. Also there aren't any seats avaliable.

I heard no seats avaliable and the stupid tears started. I'd waited like I was told and so I wasn't going to get a seat? I pointed that out to the girl and she told me to wait in line. I explained myself to the person who saw me and also explained that I need to know what my fall schedule will be so I can get my financial aid papers in. She told me that they wouldn't have an answer for me till mid to late July. I pointed out to her that the semester starts in August and if I have to wait that long to turn in my financial aide paperwork there won't be enought time to process it before school starts. She went to go get an answer for me for an advisor.

I started crying more. I've been frustrated. My grandma has been nagging me about this 114 class all weekend. We went to bed Sunday night knowning they hadn't called me and when I woke up and went downstairs the first thing out of her mouth was had I heard about 114 yet. I'd just woken up! I hadn't even taken a shower yet.

The other people working the desk got all upset because I was crying and were all 'well can't he see her' when the woman who had gone back there came back and told me that the answer was mid to late July. The counsler they had rolled her eyes and had him actually see me.

Apparently there is a process they need to go through and they won't be done with that until mid to late July. There are seats avaliable, they just don't know how many yet. If I don't get in this fall I will get in next spring. He also suggested that I drop the CSU classes. When I explained that I was four classes away from my degree and dropping out isn't an option he suggest I see if I can do the out of sequence route so I only take one nursing classes a semester instead of two.

So hopefully I'll get a seat for the fall. In the meantime, he said he doesn't know about financial aide, but can't I just sign up for a three credit class and turn in my paperwork. Then when I get in I can drop that class and take 114. Yeah, when I do get in I'll probably have to change my whole schedule to accomidate and there probably won't be a whole lot of options avaliable to me. Oh, and it gets better. If you don't get a seat they don't get ahold of you. They don't bother to tell you sorry you didn't get a seat. I pointed out that the just not hearing from them would be stressful. He gave me his card and told me to e-mail him if I hadn't heard by the end of July to e-mail him and he'd look into it for me.

All this did was make me worry because they keep changing when I need to hear from them by. I'm also angry at them not seeming to care about getting this done in a timely fashion so those of us who aren't tradition drop everything and just do our two nuring classes and pay out of pocket get screwed. I'm also frustrated wiht myself because if I'd just passed the class I wouldn't be going through this stress right now.

The other thing that's frustrating was when some of us were talking to a girl who was retaking 115 she said that the day she found out she hadn't passed she'd gone up there and they'd gotten her taken care of that day. That they'd been really great and quick about the whole thing. Make me think I don't have a seat and they just don't want to tell me that.

At least Chem class looks like it'll be fun. I can't wait till Thursday when we get started in lab!