My Future at Clemson
I'm going to go ahead and apologize for those of you that decide to keep reading this blog because I'm about to vent for a little bit.
As all you students know, registration is coming up. Therefore, this weekend, I have been looking up classes I need to take and planning out the rest of my semesters here at Clemson. I also had my advising meeting today to help me make sure I am taking what I need to take.
Let me just explain some of the problems I've run into so far. When looking up classes that I need next semester for my major, I found a few things Clemson needs to work on. For example, 3 of the finance classes that I need to graduate, one of which I need next semester, are not being offered in the spring and are only offered in the fall. Also, 3 of the classes I need next semester are only offered for one section, and 2 of those are at the exact same time. So then I started checking out other classes that I am supposed to be taking later, but will have to go ahead and take them. To my shock and amazement, I found at least 3 more finance classes that are only offered one section! Luckily, I have an early registration time and should be able to get in these limited sections, but what about everyone else? Isn't one of the reasons that business students are paying an extra $1000 a semester so that we can have enough sections of our classes and enough teachers to teach them? Apparently, those benefits won't kick in til I've graduated, which means I am throwing my money out the window. Or, at least I'll be investing in the education for student's after me. Those same students that can come in and take my job from me because they had a better education, because of the "extra benefits" the Business school at Clemson is offering.
Ok, so maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but anyone can see how I can get a little frustrated. My advising meeting didn't help much either. Apparently, there is no way for me to get a double major unless I go 30 hours longer than my required. Well, I'm a semester ahead, so that really on means one extra semester... except I don't have the money for that. So I can either take some slack classes and the minimum hours my last 3 semesters or I can just graduate in December and waste the scholarship money I have that goes through May. It is also apparently not a good idea to go straight to graduate school as a finance major unless I want an academic degree that could land me back in a university teaching other college students, which I know I don't want. So, I have to graduate and work a few years and then go back and get an MBA, which totally screws up my plans.
Needless to say, I have a lot of thinking and planning to do. Things almost never work out the way you originally plan them. But... I guess the moral of the rant is, things will work out because God may have another plan for me than I had.
As all you students know, registration is coming up. Therefore, this weekend, I have been looking up classes I need to take and planning out the rest of my semesters here at Clemson. I also had my advising meeting today to help me make sure I am taking what I need to take.
Let me just explain some of the problems I've run into so far. When looking up classes that I need next semester for my major, I found a few things Clemson needs to work on. For example, 3 of the finance classes that I need to graduate, one of which I need next semester, are not being offered in the spring and are only offered in the fall. Also, 3 of the classes I need next semester are only offered for one section, and 2 of those are at the exact same time. So then I started checking out other classes that I am supposed to be taking later, but will have to go ahead and take them. To my shock and amazement, I found at least 3 more finance classes that are only offered one section! Luckily, I have an early registration time and should be able to get in these limited sections, but what about everyone else? Isn't one of the reasons that business students are paying an extra $1000 a semester so that we can have enough sections of our classes and enough teachers to teach them? Apparently, those benefits won't kick in til I've graduated, which means I am throwing my money out the window. Or, at least I'll be investing in the education for student's after me. Those same students that can come in and take my job from me because they had a better education, because of the "extra benefits" the Business school at Clemson is offering.
Ok, so maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, but anyone can see how I can get a little frustrated. My advising meeting didn't help much either. Apparently, there is no way for me to get a double major unless I go 30 hours longer than my required. Well, I'm a semester ahead, so that really on means one extra semester... except I don't have the money for that. So I can either take some slack classes and the minimum hours my last 3 semesters or I can just graduate in December and waste the scholarship money I have that goes through May. It is also apparently not a good idea to go straight to graduate school as a finance major unless I want an academic degree that could land me back in a university teaching other college students, which I know I don't want. So, I have to graduate and work a few years and then go back and get an MBA, which totally screws up my plans.
Needless to say, I have a lot of thinking and planning to do. Things almost never work out the way you originally plan them. But... I guess the moral of the rant is, things will work out because God may have another plan for me than I had.
posted by Leah B at
5:01 PM
1 Comments:
I can tell you from several different situations that I've experienced, there's always a reason why things work out the way they do. Sometimes it seems impossible to see it, but I predict in two or three years, you'll look back and realize why it happened the way it did. I know that seems kind of cliche at the moment, but just hang in there. It'll all work out in the end.
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