Scheduled
After three phone calls, four or five hours of my time, two visits to UH, and fifteen dollars, I finally got the stop removed from my enrollment. Yeehaw!
It turns out that my college courses *didn’t* exempt me from the requirement, as I hadn’t taken anything that fit their description of “government, history, or politics.” Whatever. I ended up having to take the ACCUPLACER, which wasn’t too bad. It was untimed, and I got through it in a little over an hour, most of which was spent on the essay*. It’s a computer adaptive test, so I got my scores back as soon as I finished. Luckily I managed to eke out a passing score, just barely. 
I hurried online to enroll as soon as I got back to the office**. Here are the classes I’m in right now, though this may change if I figure out I need to satisfy particular requirements or if my prereqs don’t transfer.
CLAS3374 Women in the Ancient World
ENGL4300 Intro to the Study of Language
LATN1302 Elementary Latin II
MATH3338 Probability
PHIL1321 Intro to Logic
Five classes, five different departments. Two of the classes actually apply to my major. One open spot magically appeared in the Classics course this morning, so of course I snatched it up. The Latin course is *probably* the level I should be at, but I haven’t heard back about placement testing yet. I’ve already taken an Intro to Language class (at Pitzer), but, though I did read the entire textbook over the first two or three weeks of the semester, I didn’t actually go to class much, and when I did, I didn’t get the feeling that it was all that rigorous. Apparently the 4300 makes this one a “senior level” class, which means…something. Maybe it’s harder? I don’t know; we didn’t have that sort of numbering system at Claremont.
The positive side of knowing very little about the graduation requirements is that I’m looking forward to taking every one of these classes. The negative side is that I might be missing things that I’ll have to make up later. We’ll see whether this schedule holds up. I feel like I should have some sort of advisor, but I’m not sure how to get one. Maybe that’s something they’ll cover at this “orientation” they said they were going to mail me more info about. I think it’s early next week; maybe I should call somebody about that. Sorry, thinking out loud. Well, quietly, except for the tippy-typing noises, which don’t seem to bother Sammy as much as they’d bother me if I were trying to sleep. Ok really. Going to bed now.
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* The student guide I linked above says the essay is scored either from 1–6 or 1–4. I got an 8. I have no idea what that means. Neither did the lady who ran the testing center. Hey, as long as it gets that stop removed, I’m not asking any questions.
** I spent almost 5 hours at the office today, but I had so many non-office things to do that I never actually “clocked in” or did any office-work. I heart flexibility—best job ever.
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