Well.... I' m no longer taking a Marketing and Public Relations major instead I'm taking a Management and Marketing major. It's not my first choice but what the hell.... at this rate I'll just take what I can get and hopefully I won't suck at this.... Alright so my first week is over and I'm officially studying again which does not bode well for me as I have NOT been studying since November and honestly that's a bit of stretch as seeing my last subject I took in my diploma was Business Statistics!! By the way the subjects I'm taking this semester don't seem to be easy subjects to score either!! Let's see.... I'm taking Consumer Behaviour, Sales Management, Marketing Research and International Marketing.... and all of this subjects place more emphasis on assignments and group projects and presentation. I mean the final exams are worth like only 25%-30%!! This will totally drive me to be more hardworking seeing as I hardly studied in my diploma and I was just lucky that I did reasonably well in my Diploma. You can imagine my surprise when I actually took the time to see how many subjects I scored an A for my diploma..... I have 14 A's , 6 B's, 5 C's and 2 subjects which I had to take a re-sit!! For a person who only studies less than a week before the finals that's quite an achievement ( at least I think it's an achievement....)
But.... I CANNOT do this in Curtin!! I have to actually work or at least make a decent effort! I told myself I must do well this semester and that means scoring at least a Distinction (70-79 marks) for each subject!! Failure is not an option!! And I'll be damned if I have to repeat any papers!! I wanna finish my degree by January 2010!! Which reminds me..... Metropolitan and Curtin really pissed me off this week!! You see as soon as I finished my last Diploma subject, I was anxiously waiting for my result so I can apply for my official transcript and my letter or certificate of completion.... When I got all those settled (which took at least two weeks and that was me rushing my former college) Metropolitan informed me that my English qualification in my Diploma is not acknowledged in Curtin and I have to take IELTS!! So fine I spend like almost 900 bucks to take the exam and enrolled in a workshop ( because my parents think I need it) which totally wasted my time because the tutor was teaching stuff I already knew!! So when I got my IELTS result ( I got an overall band score of 8 which I personally think is a sucky mark because I didn't finish my writing test but according to everyone else it's a very good mark because the total is 9)
Anyway I FINALLY got everything settled and handed in my application for enrollment and exemption of subjects which I took in diploma on 30 December. So they tell me, they'll call me when they get the result from Curtin because Metropolitan cannot make any decisions about this. So I waited and waited and waited AND WAITED!! After more than two weeks (which I honestly think it's quite a reasonable time period) I called Metropolitan and asked why is it taking so long?? They just told me that Curtin has not given any reply. That was in mid January so I figured I'll give them two more weeks which means I'll give them until the end of January before I get really anxious because the new semester starts in end of February. So again I waited and waited and basically during that period of time I was stewing in my own juices wondering what the hell can be so difficult about approving a few exemptions (I applied for 11 exemptions) When February came, I was more than nervous!! I was afraid that my application was lost and the college just did not want to get off their asses to inform me. I was started to look for other prospects.... I was rather intrigued by this course offered by the University of Sunderland which was a double major in Business and Management. When i first saw the brochure, I snorted in disdain (nope that's too strong a word..... amusement is much better!!) I mean I've heard of Business Management but I've never heard of Business and Management!! Anyway I digress.
So finally a week before the semester starts in Curtin, I was climbing the walls so I went to Metroplitan and demanded an explanation!! They finally gave me an offer letter but they still couldn't tell me the subjects I'm exempted from!! But my counselor still enrolled me for 4 subjects:- Marketing Research, International Marketing, Public Relations (Techniques) and Marketing: Professional Practice. So I thought "COOL!!! I'm taking Year 2 and Year 3 subjects which meant I was on track. TO MY DISMAY, WHEN CLASSES STARTED, I COULDN'T FIND THE TIME TABLE FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS (TECHNIQUES)!! WHEN I ASKED FOR HELP FROM THE STUDENT COUNCIL, THEY TOLD ME THAT THE SUBJECT IS NOT OFFERED IN METROPOLITAN!! THE BEST THING AND I DO MEAN THE BEST THING WAS THAT THE MAJOR I WAS TAKING (MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS) HAD BEEN CHANGED FROM 2+1 TO 1 AND A HALF AND 1 AND A HALF WHICH MEANT THAT INSTEAD OF SPENDING 2 YEARS IN METROPOLITAN AND ONLY DOING MY FINAL YEAR IN PERTH, I NOW HAD TO GO TO PERTH IN JULY AND I COULD ONLY DO 2 SUBJECTS HERE IN METROPOLITAN!! So I was understandably pissed and asked my counselor why wasn't informed about this earlier!! I was prepared to go to Perth but not so soon!!I mean you CANNOT inform someone in February that she's going to Perth in July when all this while she thought that she'll only be going in 2009!! That's when I started to have these niggling doubts that I'm just not ready to go to Perth so soon... So after a few days of brooding and a lot of deep contemplation I finally decided to switch my major to Management and Marketing.
So the due date for all this crap about adding/dropping subjects or enrollment to get sent to Curtin is 28 February. I informed the college on the 26th. FINALLY, yesterday on the 28th i found out about my exemptions. I got only 6 which I'm less than happy because some of these subjects I'd taken before. But the ABSOLUTE WORST THING WAS THEM INFORMING ME THAT THEY COULD NOT SWITCH MY MAJOR BECAUSE I COULD NOT MEET THE DEADLINE!!! I MEAN GOD DAMN FUCKING HELL!! I TOLD THEM 2 DAYS BEFORE!!! SO NOW THEY CAN ONLY SWITCH MY MAJORS NEXT SEMESTER!! WHICH IS WHY I'M TAKING YEAR 2 SUBJECTS THAT ARE IN BOTH MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS AND IN MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING!!
It's like why the fuck did I go rush my former college for my transcripts and my certificate of completion when it took me 61 days to find out my exemption status!!! God!! THEIR INEPTITUDE PISSED ME OFF SO MUCH THAT I WAS SO TEMPTED TO LOSE MY TEMPER AND START YELLING AT THEM BUT I KEPT TELLING MYSELF THAT I HAVE 2 SPEND THE BETTER PART OF 2 YEARS HERE SO I HAVE TO STAY NICE AND POLITE!!
Ugh!! It's stuff like this that makes me wish I stayed in my previous college despite the fact that they are not offering the subjects I wanted.... Anyway it's all in the recent past, so now I just have to focus on NOT FLUNKING MY ASS OFF UNIVERSITY!!
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