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JimmyCracksCorn
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Dec 2002
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Originally posted by Oerdin
MRT, go to the dean of your department and begging. Grovel if you must but get readmited to the school. |
I agree.
MRT, what uni do/did you go to? Most Universities have an appeals board you can submit requests to. They're like the supreme court of the school and can reverse any decision made by the university.
I would suggest you figure out why you didn't do well and why you had to drop out. If it was truly because you were lazy, then you need to make something up. If it was because of some sort of depression (I'm guessing) go to a psychiatrist, talk to them about your problems and how it affected your school work. They won't argue with you. Then ask them to write you a short letter that says you were unable to thrive during the academic year because of a severe depression. Then write your appeals board (usually there's a form) and attach the letter you got from the Pysch. Unless they're hard asses, it will work. Or you'll at least get some kind of break.
And if its not depression (I just made that up) do something else similar... learning disability, whatever. Just do whatever it takes to get back into school and consider it a second chance.
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:24
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While I have no desire to see the average dude fall on his face, I really enjoy MRT's self destruction. |
Its hardly self destruction Ned. He got evicted. That happens to the best of us.
What this thread has essentially turned into however is a stay-in-school-MRT deal, but still. Dropping out of school isn't the end of the world either.
Sorry to ruin your fun.
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JimmyCracksCorn
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Macedonia - Sovereign country north of Greece.
Dec 2002
time: 05:24
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Withdrawing is a much better option than flunking out. Flunking out gets you debarred from the University and prevents you from coming back until you appeal it. And even when you return you have a horrible mark on your record.
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Ben Kenobi
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McGregornobi!
Oct 2002
time: 21:24
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So you left because you couldn't cut it?
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Why did I leave when I did?
More than a few reasons. My profs all asked me to stay, they liked my work, and felt I was one of their better students.
But the real reasons were financial and institutional.
I really don't know what to call the second thing. At UBC they have a Disability Resource Centre that supplies notetakers for students. Up until this last year, they allowed me to hire my own, and they would start within a week of classes starting. I'd get a package of notes every week right until the end. The system worked well, and allowed me to do well at university. Then they changed the system.
A new director of the program got hired with squat knowledge of this particular program which she oversaw. A case of merit hiring, she had a different disability, but one that had nothing to do with my program. In any case, she made several substantial alterations. First of all, she made it so that all notetakers had to go through the same hirings process as all other employees of the DRC. Looks good, but there's more. Part of this hirings process meant that they had to take a test concerning the workings of the DRC. If they failed, they were removed from consideration.
Secondly, until a notetaker was hired, they would not pay the notetaker. I had always argued for retroactive pay, from the start of the class, so that they got compensated for all the notes I received. A difference of about 40 dollars per notetaker per semester, considering that all the notetakers got 10 dollars an hour to work.
Then they scaled back the pay to nine dollars. All of these changes took place at the same time.
Needless to say, it was a complete disaster. It took a month for all my notetakers to be hired, completely unacceptable when my semester is only 3 months long with 1 month for our examinations.
Secondly, they refused to pay my notetakers for the first month of classes, even though I was supposed to get my notetaker's notes from that first month. I argued that they ought to be compensated for this, as they had been every year before.
I eventually managed to get the DRC to pay them retroactively because I would go on my own time and hassle them over this issue. They said they would grandfather me until I graduated, an agreement which they reneged on in the second term.
As for financial, I didn't have the money to pay for all my books on top of my living costs, without taking a part time job. I took the job doing inventory work, in the second term and got burnt out from that and a full course load.
Will I go back? When I have what I need, in terms of money and support so that I can finish. If I have to work and save to do that, then I will do that.
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17-02-2005 02:52
I guess it was Karma. 
I'm damn close, and I think I'm doing pretty well 
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