For the Love!
About a month ago I checked online to see if my grades had been posted for spring semester. I already knew what I'd be getting: A, A, A. So imagine my surprise when I looked and one of my teachers had given me an E! What the...? I couldn't figure out how this had happened. I was practically teacher's pet in that class. I was there pretty much every day, I got A's on the tests and I always participated. This really wasn't possible. But then I remembered that he never took roll. And I had just changed my last name. And it didn't match the last name he had for me.
I had changed my last name at the beginning of the semester, shortly after we got married. But then I had to change it back to my maiden name a few weeks before the semester was over so I could apply for summer financial aid. My name had to match what the government's financial aid department had for me. My other two teachers figured it out ok, apparently this guy wasn't the brightest crayon in the box.
I emailed him immediately but as mentioned before he's not so bright and I doubted he was very computer savvy either. So I waited a few days and when I didn't hear back I called the department. I knew he wasn't teaching during the summer and I wasn't going to wait until fall to get this taken care of. I needed to get this taken care of so I could apply for financial aid for fall! I needed to apply for graduation!
So I called the department. They agreed that it was probably the name change that screwed things up (thank goodness!). They said they would call him and get it taken care of.
I waited a week. There was still no change to the E. So I called again. This lady said the same thing. She'd call him and get back to me. Nobody called. That was two weeks ago and the E is still there. I'm getting really frustrated. I need to apply for financial aid! I need to apply for graduation! Fall is my last semester here and I can't graduate with an E on my record. Looks like I'll be making another call to the department tomorrow. They're not going to like that so much. But then again, I haven't enjoyed any of this situation.
I had changed my last name at the beginning of the semester, shortly after we got married. But then I had to change it back to my maiden name a few weeks before the semester was over so I could apply for summer financial aid. My name had to match what the government's financial aid department had for me. My other two teachers figured it out ok, apparently this guy wasn't the brightest crayon in the box.
I emailed him immediately but as mentioned before he's not so bright and I doubted he was very computer savvy either. So I waited a few days and when I didn't hear back I called the department. I knew he wasn't teaching during the summer and I wasn't going to wait until fall to get this taken care of. I needed to get this taken care of so I could apply for financial aid for fall! I needed to apply for graduation!
So I called the department. They agreed that it was probably the name change that screwed things up (thank goodness!). They said they would call him and get it taken care of.
I waited a week. There was still no change to the E. So I called again. This lady said the same thing. She'd call him and get back to me. Nobody called. That was two weeks ago and the E is still there. I'm getting really frustrated. I need to apply for financial aid! I need to apply for graduation! Fall is my last semester here and I can't graduate with an E on my record. Looks like I'll be making another call to the department tomorrow. They're not going to like that so much. But then again, I haven't enjoyed any of this situation.
posted by Heidi @ 4:51 PM
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