Secret time...
Apr. 29th, 2003 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33So, just what the hell was I talking about here? I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes because I can finally tell my secret.
So here it is, per logging in to a website just now (I thought I'd have to wait for a letter first):
Thank you for confirming your intention to enroll at the University of Washington for summer quarter 2003. We have received your enrollment confirmation and you have been enrolled in the University as indicated below:
Class: SENIOR
Department: SOCIAL SCIENCES,EVENING
School/College: Arts & Sciences
Residency Status: RESIDENT
"But you already have a BA in COMS or Journalism or something from... uh... someplace in CA, right?"
No.
Did I go to college in CA? Yes. Did I make it to my senior year? Yes. Did I apply for graduation? Yes. Did I receive a nomination for Graduate With Distinction from my department? Yes. Did I walk in commencement? Yes. Did I tell everyone I graduated after all of that? Of course. Did I actually graduate? No.
Two stupid classes of incompletes. I swore I would finish them over the summer, and that never happened. Between acute burnout and a myriad of personal issues I'm not going to get into (my husband at the time & I did finally separate and divorce a year after this), I was a complete loser and didn't follow through.
I was so ashamed of this that I pretended it never happened, and ran off to WA to start a new life where my surroundings wouldn't remind me of the fact that I was a failed college student every single day. I thought about trying to finish the classes every once in a while, but was convinced that if I applied that some adviser would laugh at my sorry 'close but not quite' transcript and tell me to forget about it.
Then, Kieran came along. In the first few months of getting to spend all my time with him, I realized that I am going to be a significant role model to him in everything I do both right & wrong. Living a lie has absolutely no place in that, but I was terrified nonetheless.
Back in January, an adviser didn't even bat an eye at my transcript and said he saw no reason why they wouldn't accept me, even as a double major (that option isn't on the enrollment form, in addition to Social Sciences I'll also be in Humanities).
One GE requirement that didn't exist in CA but does here in WA is foreign language. So, despite not touching on it in any depth since 1991, in March I launched myself into a UW distance learning 3rd semester French course to complete that. Yes, during this whole 'freedom' nonsense I've been studying French almost every night for an hour. March was also when I applied for admission, hence the timing of that entry I linked above. I'll start off with one class per quarter, possibly two by Winter if I get the hang of it and will have my degrees within 2 years at the max.
So, there you have it. I suck. But I'll be damned if I fail this time.
So here it is, per logging in to a website just now (I thought I'd have to wait for a letter first):
Thank you for confirming your intention to enroll at the University of Washington for summer quarter 2003. We have received your enrollment confirmation and you have been enrolled in the University as indicated below:
Class: SENIOR
Department: SOCIAL SCIENCES,EVENING
School/College: Arts & Sciences
Residency Status: RESIDENT
"But you already have a BA in COMS or Journalism or something from... uh... someplace in CA, right?"
No.
Did I go to college in CA? Yes. Did I make it to my senior year? Yes. Did I apply for graduation? Yes. Did I receive a nomination for Graduate With Distinction from my department? Yes. Did I walk in commencement? Yes. Did I tell everyone I graduated after all of that? Of course. Did I actually graduate? No.
Two stupid classes of incompletes. I swore I would finish them over the summer, and that never happened. Between acute burnout and a myriad of personal issues I'm not going to get into (my husband at the time & I did finally separate and divorce a year after this), I was a complete loser and didn't follow through.
I was so ashamed of this that I pretended it never happened, and ran off to WA to start a new life where my surroundings wouldn't remind me of the fact that I was a failed college student every single day. I thought about trying to finish the classes every once in a while, but was convinced that if I applied that some adviser would laugh at my sorry 'close but not quite' transcript and tell me to forget about it.
Then, Kieran came along. In the first few months of getting to spend all my time with him, I realized that I am going to be a significant role model to him in everything I do both right & wrong. Living a lie has absolutely no place in that, but I was terrified nonetheless.
Back in January, an adviser didn't even bat an eye at my transcript and said he saw no reason why they wouldn't accept me, even as a double major (that option isn't on the enrollment form, in addition to Social Sciences I'll also be in Humanities).
One GE requirement that didn't exist in CA but does here in WA is foreign language. So, despite not touching on it in any depth since 1991, in March I launched myself into a UW distance learning 3rd semester French course to complete that. Yes, during this whole 'freedom' nonsense I've been studying French almost every night for an hour. March was also when I applied for admission, hence the timing of that entry I linked above. I'll start off with one class per quarter, possibly two by Winter if I get the hang of it and will have my degrees within 2 years at the max.
So, there you have it. I suck. But I'll be damned if I fail this time.
