This is not going well.
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nwhikerTrying to do registration with Linnea today. Dh is at work -on site AT work- all day, so it's fallen to Perry and me to help her out.
We're getting screamed at a lot.
Turns out most of the classes she wants to take are already full, and they've already warned her that she probably won't get into English 101. Because she tests poorly, she has to take a useless math class (pre-pre-algebra, she's passed algebra with trig in HS and knows the material) and she's barred from many classes because now she doesn't have the math pre-reqs. They think she should be able to get into the math class, but it might not be the section she wants.
So she's randomly picking classes at this point, and she's screaming at us when we suggest she needs a better plan than that.
Also, it looks like most of her classes are going to be remote, one may have one hour of lab, if she can get into that class. Why the fuck are we paying $20k to send her to a school 90 minutes away so she can sit in her dorm room to take classes? If she gets onto the rowing team, that would be one thing, but this is looking stupider-and-stupider by the minute.
ETA. OK. Update. Once she gave up on a computer science of gaming class, we were able to work out an acceptable schedule. She has classes MWF, she's off all day T/Th, which will be good if she's rowing NOT AT ALL GOOD if she is not. One of her classes is a useless "gender and society" which Perry also took for the same reason -only one he could get into- and hated, so eh, we'll see.
I don't think she has much chance of getting onto the rowing team. She is a decent rower. She's very strong. For her size. Her erg times are decent. For her size. Her broad jump is decent. For her size. And there's the bite. For. Her. Size. In a sport where height determines your worth, well... Anyhow.
We're getting screamed at a lot.
Turns out most of the classes she wants to take are already full, and they've already warned her that she probably won't get into English 101. Because she tests poorly, she has to take a useless math class (pre-pre-algebra, she's passed algebra with trig in HS and knows the material) and she's barred from many classes because now she doesn't have the math pre-reqs. They think she should be able to get into the math class, but it might not be the section she wants.
So she's randomly picking classes at this point, and she's screaming at us when we suggest she needs a better plan than that.
Also, it looks like most of her classes are going to be remote, one may have one hour of lab, if she can get into that class. Why the fuck are we paying $20k to send her to a school 90 minutes away so she can sit in her dorm room to take classes? If she gets onto the rowing team, that would be one thing, but this is looking stupider-and-stupider by the minute.
ETA. OK. Update. Once she gave up on a computer science of gaming class, we were able to work out an acceptable schedule. She has classes MWF, she's off all day T/Th, which will be good if she's rowing NOT AT ALL GOOD if she is not. One of her classes is a useless "gender and society" which Perry also took for the same reason -only one he could get into- and hated, so eh, we'll see.
I don't think she has much chance of getting onto the rowing team. She is a decent rower. She's very strong. For her size. Her erg times are decent. For her size. Her broad jump is decent. For her size. And there's the bite. For. Her. Size. In a sport where height determines your worth, well... Anyhow.
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Date: 24 Aug 2021 03:32 (UTC)no subject
Date: 25 Aug 2021 17:25 (UTC)Yeah, Linnea has a core principle that nobody is allowed to be pessimistic or foresee bad outcomes. I was looking at the data, and that she could not get into the CS class she wanted and the in-person math and English classes, and then the CS class became impossible anyhow (ran out of slots before her registration), but she was insisting on some other class... Anyhow, it was a total mess, and she yelled at us for telling her she was not going to get either her math class or her English class if she didn't pick a different third class. Once she did that, we were able to find both math and English in person classes. She did, to be fair, apologize and thank us later for helping her.
I really wish she'd have accepted to go to community college, but I think, after the years of being talked down to and being discouraged from higher level classes (and aspiring to a four year degree) by various random people, emotionally, that was one step too far. I think a well supported first two years in CC would have been better for her, but eh.