Remember how, during the "force Eddie to graduate early" meeting last week, the school people said that I would be doing my Senior Show combined with my Advanced Watercolor class so that my later assignments for the watercolor class would go toward my Senior Show project, too?
Turns out it was all a big fat lie. My watercolor projects and Senior Show projects are in fact completely separate from each other, and I'm going to have to do the full (absolutely huge) workload for both of them at the same freaking time.
In other words... I now have two regular art classes plus Senior Show, all crammed into the same semester. You know, just the absolute worst class schedule I could possibly have (okay, almost the worst--having my 4th class be Senior Paper would be the only way this could be worse.) The exact same kind of class schedule I had been trying to avoid when I figured out how my classes would be set up this year--my last two "normal" required classes and a couple of extras this semester, another Spanish class, a couple of extras, and Senior Show next semester... so I don't have more than two art-related classes at once and don't have to worry about homework overload ever being even worse than it was during my "two art classes and Senior Paper" semester a while back.
But no, SVU's administration apparently doesn't consider "exhaustion and/or death by homework overload" to be a problem. They didn't even give me a choice as to which of my two non-required classes to drop; instead of letting me drop Advanced Watercolor to make room in my schedule for the Senior Show workload (dropping my most homework-heavy class and replacing it with another one), they went ahead and dropped me from Marriage and Family instead (which was a non-required class, but not so heavy on the homework, just a quiz every now and then and a couple of projects later on in the semester.) Of course, like I mentioned above, they had originally told me that Senior Show would be mixed in with my watercolor class, so of course I couldn't just drop that one... until it turns out that Senior Show is not mixed in with my watercolor class, it's a separate class entirely (meeting at 3:35 on Mondays, causing M/W/F to be my absurd classes-all-day days even more so than before.) Of course, they weren't nice enough to inform me of this sudden change of plans (on top of their previous sudden change of plans) until today, after I had already returned the Marriage and Family book I had rented and gotten a full refund for it.
Yeah... me and SVU are not getting along so well lately. The students are great, it's the people in charge that are the problem, and I suspect it'd be so much better if they would just get swapped out for someone else (maybe they should go administrate BYU or something, if they want their students to be a bunch of perfect little mindlessly-obedient Mormon children. Of course, I've heard BYU has a lot of Mormon kids who are going around doing non-Mormon-approved college kid activities behind the scenes... but it's not what they're actually like that matters to the people in charge, it's the fake happy-happy-perfect-obedient-Mormon-kid image they put on out in public.)
This whole situation reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once, comparing politicians to diapers: they need to be changed often, and for the same reason!
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