My crappy advisor in undergrad
I've been thinking a lot about this lately. This lady:
- Refused to let me add the design minor, which was basically a better art minor with illustration/animation/photography classes instead of ceramics or whatever in studio art (and it no longer exists, there's now just this weird cop-out called "design thinking" which has zero actual art classes) unless I took 18 credits a semester and 9 credits every spring AND summer, and was quite rude about it.
- Told me she'd only add the math minor if I didn't take the proofs class (because supposedly discrete structures was the same thing [it wasn't, which is exactly why non-technical people shouldn't get a say in our coursework choices]).
- Told me that I'd better just get accepted into CS Animation if I wanted to do art.
- Forcibly removed my English minor even though I was on an old set of requirements that would have automatically been fulfilled by my existing creative writing minor, thus getting me another minor for free, since the programs were so similar. She didn't want to hear it.
- Basically gave me a ton of crap for taking too long to graduate.
I was so mad when I heard about other students having zero difficulty adding 3-4 minors! Well, happy for them, but mad that my advisor was such an a-hole.
I will die mad about this, much like how I will die mad at Randy Lake. This lady probably thought I was some slacker. And she was wrong. By the power of spite, I will get the exact education that I want. No matter how hard it is or how long it takes.
I'm a completely different person now. Today, I would have forced my way through. Of course, going back I'd have double majored with EE but that's beside the point. If she didn't budge, I would've gone to other people until I made the design minor happen. I would've taken proofs too. Even if I had to email every professor manually until I got the courses I wanted.
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