I have done all that I can do, I have filed petition after petition. I have even written the President of the University to which I received a call from the Vice President of Student affairs. I have met with the head of academic advising, all to no avail. I have even sent letters to the local news stations, to which I have received no response. I am stuck with their decision. The irony of the situation is that now that the class has had its first session they are down…
Most people don’t know that CSUSM’s official full-time status is significantly lower than the financial aid status that is considered full-time. Accord to CSUSM full-time is anything over 6 units, however the required units for full-time for financial aid and many insurance companies is 12 units. So the fact that CSUSM has limited once again students to only 13 units is no coincidence. They make no additional money off of students if they take more than 12 units. Financial aid and any aid from the state and or federal government does not increase if you take more than 12 units.…
Apparently California State University – San Marcos is no longer in the business of graduating students at least not unless you are willing to play by their obscenely inane rules. They once again, due to “budget” cuts are restricting the level of units that a student can take to only 13! The absolute absurdity of this is that they are continuing to build a student union to the tune of about 40+ million dollars. So let’s see they aren’t willing to give up their student union for a while until the budget “rights” itself. Yet they are willing to charge…
This afternoon I received an email from the President of CSUSM, the school I am attending. It was informing the student body that there was found in one of the bathrooms on campus, racial epithets. There have been a string of these lately, UCSD and their racial problems included. I am wondering where this is all coming from. My parents are from areas where racism was certainly more prevalent, but I wasn’t raised that way. It is very disappointing to hear that people still think with such hate for their brothers and sisters.
I am taking a course during winter break titled “Sacred Texts” now I was lucky enough to take the class when it is talking about the Koran and Islam. I find this very interesting, except the text that they choose title, “The Vision of Islam” by Murata & Chittick is VERY confusing (either that or Islam it’s self is confusing, the jury is still out on this one). Now I have a background in religious studies as I have studied my religion all my life. I have even researched faiths other than my own. I am no expert but I am…
I took a little break from blogging, mostly because I wasn’t really feeling the need to share everything that was going on, but also because I have been struggling immensely with what to do with my major. I have decided that for the sake of my family and the sake of my sanity that I am going to change my major to Criminology and Justice Studies. Although this major will be significantly more “interesting” to me it will also be more difficult to find a job that would utilize my degree. I may need to get a master’s or PhD…
I am still torn on what to do, there is a huge part of me that doesn’t want to quit, most of all because there isn’t anything else I want to do, at least not nearly as much. I really like computers and I like working on them. I like being able to create with them and most importantly I like knowing how they work. Despite what I said yesterday, I am excited about taking physics and more math. I do really enjoy it. I like knowing how things work and how I can make things work better. I just need…
I am trying to decide on a different major. I thought I could pass calculus but much to my regret I cannot. I have attempted it several times and have met with the same result each time. I can’t go onto the other parts of computer science without passing calculus. There are several benefits to changing majors of which the most important is I can graduate earlier than I could with computer science. Now the real question is what major should I choose? I am thinking about Political Science and then heading on to law school. If I do that…
As positive as I like to be about life, the inevitable does happen. Despite my best efforts things can fall apart. I found myself in one such situation today. I have worked really hard to be ready for my calculus class. Today was our first test. I am fairly certain I failed the test. I couldn’t even answer some of the questions. I looked on blankly and could not for the life of me figure out what I needed to do to solve the equations as they were presented to me. Now, I could go on and on about how…
So I spent most of the day working on my computer science homework and setting up my blog. I wanted it to be just right so I wouldn’t have to do anything more. It should run like a well-oiled machine. I hope you like it. I am looking forward to sharing my thoughts on life, love, news, politics, computer science, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that this is random; I don’t purpose to be anything but. I am far from normal but I think this is what endears people to me. I am unlike most guys in…
Weddings! Could it mean sacrificing so much for such a short time? I mean seriously! Let’s face it, it shouldn’t be this complicated. I guess the fact that my fiancée and I are doing most of the work ourselves isn’t helping in some respects. The good news is that we will be able to get married in the temple and that our reception is going to look amazing. I’ll definitely have to post pictures when we get them from the photographer. It is going to be a fantastic day though! I can barely contain myself. We only have 17 days…
Amazing and exciting news! My fiancée and I are officially accepted to the University that we were both applied for, we are very excited. What makes it all that much more amazing is that the day after I was accepted I got a phone call from the University housing saying that an apartment opened up and they would like to know if we would like it. So our lives went from not knowing what we are doing to knowing exactly what we are doing. I spent Friday night and Saturday morning drawing up an education plan. It was…
So here is what is new, this week I was able to sign my student loan promissory note which means I will be getting MONEY! It actually turns out that I will be getting more than I was anticipating which will be nice. I look forward to have a little cushion room for not only the semester but also for the school year. Essentially what it comes down to is that they will be giving me the amount of money during one semester that they would normally give over the course of two semesters. I just need to be disciplined…
12:00 PM – So I started school today both with great expectations and with a bit of trepidation as well. I generally hate the first day of classes because of the uncertainty involved. As most of you know I work well within my box, you take me out of said “box” and it causes consternation on my part. I like predictability, I like being able to depend on something day in and day out, when school starts my ability to cope decreases especially when something pretty significant is on the line. I hate failing and that is always my greatest…
So I really don’t know where to begin, this week has been fairly interesting. Not interesting in the great sense but just interesting in the varied week sense. I am confused yet confident with how this week has gone. Life is complicated, it always is but sometimes it is worse than others. Right now it is one of those times where it is significantly more complicated yet in some ways simpler as well. Since having dropped my Calculus class it has relieved quite a bit of burden from me but at the same time my drive to complete my classes…
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