Frustration! And more frustration.

[temples]

Things that should not be difficult but are: registering for school. This is, apparently, a week-long process of bureaucracy, e-mails, and requests.

On the plus side, I might be arranging my own independent study for a credit. Once I can figure out how.

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[rainfall]

:(

Jes is so industrious though. What subject matter?

/disappears before you can answer probably

[temples]

My classes for next September! I am going to die. :D

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.... :|aaa

Okay, one question.

Why?

[temples]

This is the amount of classes every student takes. Death is still imminent, of course.

[rainfall]

Really?

Because here, taking five classes at once is considered overachieving.

[compliant]

Yup. I guess Canadians are just more hardworking! :D

[rainfall]

Don't forget we pay astronomical fees for the privilege! To people who probably have every interest in keeping students in college for as many years as possible! Because then you can keep charging them base tuition costs!

Your classes are all also things I would not have been able to take in college. Five different classes on labor and unions.

[compliant]

Hee, yup! My entire tuition for this coming school year is approximately $6600. At the community college I had attended, I was only paying about two grand per year. It was pretty nice.

Well, I am a labour studies student! What was your school's program selection like?

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I went to a community college myself. ($4k for out of state, $2k for in-state.) So I can't speak to the normal college experience. But I feel like, labor studies probably doesn't much exist over here as a major.

I was given an option to join a union when I first moved here but a few months ago a memo went out that, if I understood it correctly, was terminating all unioned employees for no reason.

I wanted to join the union, but I was nervous about it, because this country is very anti-union. :(

[temples]

That's what I'm here! SUPER JES, DEFENDER OF UNIONS EVERYWHERE.

I love labour studies, though. I was personally encouraged by a professor to switch into it and I'm very glad I did. You think your country is anti-union, people get killed in South America for being part of union activities. It's saddening.

[rainfall]

:( That sounds awesome.

(Except the second thing you said.)

What are you going to be when you are a grownup Jes?

[temples]

A Turk. Shinra's Special Forces.

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ooooo

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... :|a Also most classes are worth more than one credit each. Our systems are fundamentally incompatible. (Yours is better, I'm sure.)

How long are these classes? As in how many hours? And how often would each class meet? :|a

[compliant]

Yeah. Admittedly, our system might not be that different from yours! I just can never pass up the chance to feel nationalistically superior.

The classes with the P in the course code (so basically all of them, except for my mandatory biology credit) only goes for a single semester. So, some are from January to April, others are from September to December. I know I have an even spread, but I don't know off the top of my head which is which. That is half a credit's worth. Classes with F in the course code, like the Biology, are full year. That is a full credit.

To graduate from the Honours program, you need 20 credits. So fundamentally incompatible, indeed! Sandy told me that she gets a credit for every hour she's in a class or something and I was just like, "what."

Each class has a two-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar every week! They're spread out, though. Some classes divide the two-hour lecture into two one-hour lectures twice a week.

[rainfall]

I think it works like: you get a credit for every hour that your class meets in a week.

So, I took math classes that met for four hours per week, two 2-hour sessions, and those were 4 credit classes. But I might also take an English class that met for three hours per week, two 1.5-hour sessions, and that would only be 3 credits.

On the other hand, we don't have full-year classes. Only half year. There's "fall semester", "spring semester", and "summer semester". (So really more like 1/3rd a year.)

But you need hundreds of credits to graduate. 8D

[temples]

...Hundreds? Sob. I do not envy that, it seems horrible to manage.

[rainfall]

Memory was saying like 250 maybe. But I'm thinking less? Depending on the program, of course. An AA or AS is like, 60-64 credits, and that's a two year program. (I've got an AA, but I also have extra credits that didn't get counted by it. I took lots of electives, mostly computer science-y.) But a four-year college is going to be at least 128.

SORRY FOR BEING MISLEADING :(

[temples]

What is an AA? :o

[rainfall]

Associate's [Degree] of Art

Associate's [Degree] of Science

:D

[slim]

all new x-men

smooches you

[emends]

Still love me? /flutters eyelashes ♥

[devilfearsnada]

always ♥