Juggling For the Registrar

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Juggling Classes
   So originally this quarter I was enrolled in SWE2, CMN152 (Communications - Theories of Persuasion), IRE190 (Seminar in International Relations), POL132 (Nat'l Security Policy) and HIS132 (His. of Crime & Punishment).
   This is twenty units, but Swedish is at UCLA and will probably not get counted in with everything until much later in the quarter - thus if I were to take 16 units, it would show up here as 12 (lacking Swedish), and one must take something like 12.5 units to remain a full time student for financial aid purposes.    Twenty units is an unpleasant thing to take unnecessarily though. I found a crafty solution however, in the "withdraw no work submitted" option here. If you never submit anything for a class but don't disenroll, it comes out as a harmless drop at the end of the quarter and doesn't stay on your official transcript. Thus I'm registered here in 16 units, but four of those units will in the end come from a class other than the one listed.

   This crafty plan has been further complicated however. The registrar's office just informed me that I've already taken POL132, and rather than just disenroll me from it, I apparently will still get a grade in it but it won't count for my units. So if I get a bad grade it will appear to haunt me in my transcript, but if I get a good grade it'll probably go unnonticed because it won't get worked into my GPA. EVIL!
   Not only that, but I'm now officially enrolled in 12 units, and four of those are the ones I didn't intend to finish. This means that I suddenly desperately need to (A) convince the registrar to accept that I'm taking 4 units at UCLA) and (B) get up to speed in HIS132, which I have not been attending for four weeks now. Or something!

   If you have any other thoughts or advise on this situation I'd be extremely pleased to hear them.


Weekend Adventures
   Saturday Kristy and I and our friend Carissa went to a show off L Street to see Unless, Keep Your Distance and Prison Shank. There was hardly anyone there, I blame Coachella. The following picture is from the show though:

Picture of the Day

Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: The Boorish Depraved Minds of My Classmates - More good times in ENL5F. And Kristy wears her hair in cinnamon buns.

Comments

[ruwan.livejournal.com]

just remember, for the ENWS (enrolled, no work submitted) option, I am pretty sure (say 80%) that you need to file a petition to get that course ENWSed, otherwise you get an F automatically.

as for the repeating thing: you are only allowed to repeat a class that you recieved lower than, and not including a C- in (so D/F). if you repeat a class you got a C- or above in, only the first grade counts. the second grade will not count for better or for worse.

also there is a petition for dual enrollment... which you'll need for taking that ucla course. i dont know much about that, check with L&S deans office. (davisbob works there)

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any paperwork for ENWS, I've done it several times before (maybe I should check those grades eh! jk). Yes what you say about the repeated course is correct - if only I'd had the foresight to fail that class!!

and as to simultenious enrollment, yeah I do it every quarter but it takes forever for it to appear on the records. Well not forever but usually not until after the quarter ended.

I wonder what happens if I'm ENROLLED in 16 units, making me a qualified full time student, but I ENWS one of those classes making me RETROACTIVELY not full time? Sounds like a trick that the less scrupulous could exploit on purpose actually.

[ruwan.livejournal.com]

"Sounds like a trick that the less scrupulous could exploit on purpose actually."
-- my god, has anything ever been so perfectly up your alley?

my vote is that it would be okay -- i think ENWS is for unexpected circumstances, and those happen ... all the time. but i think there is a petition (i think i've seen it done at DBS), and if you have have a lot of ENWSs, they might get suspicious... i'd still do it though. you're a senior.

you should have taken archery instead

[(Anonymous)]

Why do this on an important 4 unit course? you should have added a 1/2 unit PE class to keep yourself full time. You'd have had fun too!

[gerlx.livejournal.com]

holy crap this is the geekiest thing i've said in a while:

I JUST SAW YOU AS A MYSPACE "COOL NEW PERSON"- i think. i just flipped.

I'm cool and new!

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

holy crap really!?

Speaking of which, are we even friends on myspace?! <--if not, needs to be fixed asap!

I've always wondered who you had to provide sexual favours to to become a "cool new person." And now I know (thanks mysterious stranger!) You should have taken a screen shot of me being cool and new. (=