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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[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