academic standing

To: Me
From: One of my many JHU Advisors
Subject: Academic Standing

Body:
Dear Jennifer,

I need to talk to you about this semester! Please come in if you are
on campus or call me if you are not.

So I called. And after asking me what happened (“Are you aware that all of your grades this semester were F’s?”) she says that rather than ask me to leave, she’s going to reccommend a medical leave of absence. But I’d have to talk to the counselling center to get them to send my records to academic advising, and talk to the Dean to possibly get this semester erased from my record. It just seems like too much trouble when I’m leaving anyway, neh? I told her that I’m in the process of transferring, and she’s all like, “well if you’re trying to transfer, if they see all those F’s, they’re not going to take you.” I didn’t try to explain that I had already been accepted elsewhere. She surely would’ve wondered how on earth that was possible, what with my barely substantial academic records up to this point. *sigh* so now she wants me to travel down to Baltimore to talk to the Dean to see what we can do. But I’m just beyond caring.

Tuesday I’m going to NYC to meet with my advisor there (one! just one! only one advisor for everything foreverandever!) to fill out my financial aid paperwork and put down my deposit.

Actually next week is going to be a busy one all-around! Sunday through Tuesday I’m going to go visit Timmy! Then Tuesday afternoon, into NY, then Tuesday night to the poconos to meet Maygan there, skiing/snowboarding on Wednesday, home Thursday morning. Then I think I’ll probably try to head down to Baltimore on Friday, since I’ll at the very least have to get all of my shite out of my apartment. Oh! I should visit my boss while I’m down there and tell her I won’t be coming back :-(. Honestly that’s the thing I’m saddest about (other than leaving all my friends!!). I loved that job. Well the job itself was dull, but I loved my boss and the people I worked with. Sigh.

The advisor just called me again a second ago and said that I may not have to talk to the Dean, if I just call the counselling center and talk to the therapist that I had been seeing, which may save me a trip. Another thing I didn’t tell her was that I stopped seeing him after 3 sessions, because I was feeling better, and no longer felt like it was helping me to continue to see him. Sigh. Although I guess he could say something to the effect of… oh I don’t even know. We shall see.