I missed a whole entire week of summer school...

[Atramental]

Good god, this is so infuriating.

All this time I was going by this date:


But then yesterday I received an email from my professor asking me where the fuck I had been all week:


urgh...

Now here I sit waiting for a reply to the email I sent him yesterday explaining why I, a 4.0 GPA student, skipped out of classes for a whole entire week.

[chronovore]

You should be fine, shouldn't you? I mean, you have proof of an "official" schedule...

[Human Snorenado]

Just blame it on bath salts, he'll understand

[Atramental]

You should be fine, shouldn't you? I mean, you have proof of an "official" schedule...

I hope so.

But I won't know for sure until that professor emails me back.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Maybe you were sent an updated schedule that you might have missed.

[fistfulofmetal]

lol school

[Joe Molotov]

[Madrun Badrun]

Your uni profs keep track of you like this?

[Atramental]

Maybe you were sent an updated schedule that you might have missed.

I've looked for such a schedule but haven't been able to find one.

And the schedule I have now says at the top "Academic Calendar 2011 - 2012" so it is current.

Well, I guess I'll chill out until I have a reason not to.

Your uni profs keep track of you like this?

At my university professors usually call or email a student if they missed the first day of class.
I got nothing from this guy except an email AFTER one week of class was finished. 

[Barry Egan]

I sure hope blowjobs are a part of your academic repertoire.

[Atramental]

I sure hope blowjobs are a part of your academic repertoire.

Well I am a transfer student from BJU. 

spoiler (click to show/hide)

And man, what a misleading name. I never received one blow job while I was there. 

[close]

[Reb]

I've been out of school for 8 years, but I still occasionally have nightmares about things like this.

[Huff]

well he emailed you rather than just straight booting you from the roster, so that's a good sign

[chronovore]

Just blame it on bath salts, he'll understand

Especially if you threaten to eat his face because of them.

[Great Rumbler]

I've been out of school for 8 years, but I still occasionally have nightmares about things like this.

Man, same here. Forgetting books, forgetting homework, not knowing where I'm supposed to be, ect. Except it's mostly middle school that I'm in, which makes no sense to me.

[Phoenix Dark]

Weird, a lot of people tend to skip the first week of spring/summer classes; I didn't know teachers would send emails and stuff. Missing classes is fine during a full semester imo, but you can't fuck around in a 7.5 week spring/summer semester.

[Himu]

It's funny, but I always did my best school work in summer school. I like summer school more than fall/winter semesters. I learn more, I stay on task longer, the classes tend to be more interesting...

I aced every single summer class I took, including math classes. It seemed that, despite having less time to dedicate to students, the teachers were more involved in teaching us how to do good work.

[Phoenix Dark]

Summer classes are also cooler because the students tend to be older and more serious. Lots of folks trying to finish that final class, or nurses getting a required credit, etc.

Plus I like walking from campus during the evening in the summer/spring

[Huff]

I always did well during the summers too. Mostly because the class is everyday during the 6 weeks and a test every two weeks. No time to slack off and forget about it

[Himu]

Yeah, I really like that about summer classes Huff.

[Shaka Khan]

Re: missing summer classes

That happens more often than anyone thinks, especially when every course have a different starting dates/scheduling. This summer I had one intensive course (1 week, 7 hours a day), a regular weekly course (8 weeks), and an annoying bi weekly course (16 weeks). All started at different times, prompting me to regularly check their starting dates prior to summer just to be safe and sure. Two friends who signed up with me (but in two different courses) were in the position as you're in right now Atra, if not worse. One decided to drop the course, while the other followed through with the professor, got excused, and was offered a make up exam.

Just be honest about it and explain your reasons. From my experience they're too forgiving during the summer, and judging from the email your professor seems nice enough to check up on you instead of not giving a shit.

[Atramental]

Re: missing summer classes

That happens more often than anyone thinks, especially when the every course have a different start/scheduling. This summer I had one intensive course (1 week, 7 hours a day), a regular weekly course (8 weeks), and an annoying bi weekly course (16 weeks). All started at different times, prompting me to regularly check their starting dates prior to the summer. Two friends who signed up with me (but in two different courses) were in the position as you are right now atra, if not worse. One decided to drop the course, while the other followed through with the professor got excuse and was offered a make up exam.

Just be honest about it and explain your reasons. From my experience they're too forgiving during the summer, and judging from the email your seems nice enough to check up on you instead of not giving a shit.

Good to know that this is a relatively common thing.

I think once Monday comes around a lot of my anxiety surrounding this missed week of school will be cleared up.

[Smooth Groove]

Just drop the term if it's too much trouble.  Don't they usually limit you to 2 classes during Summer?

[Atramental]

Just drop the term if it's too much trouble.  Don't they usually limit you to 2 classes during Summer?

I rather just get this class out of the way as quickly as possible (it's probability and stats). I'm a senior and this is one of the last general education classes I have to take before I graduate in 2013.

And yes, I believe there is only a two or three class limit during the summer but I'm only taking this one class.

[brawndolicious]

You should be fine, any professor could drop you for missing the first day if he wanted to but it sounds like he has no desire to do that. I heard stats is a fairly easy course so hopefully you'll catch up quickly.

And what is BJU? Bob Jones University?

[Atramental]

You should be fine, any professor could drop you for missing the first day if he wanted to but it sounds like he has no desire to do that. I heard stats is a fairly easy course so hopefully you'll catch up quickly.

Oh good. Easy is what I want because during the first Summer Semester I was taking Spanish II and an Art History course and those were not easy by any stretch of the imagination.

And what is BJU? Bob Jones University?

Yup. But they asked me to leave because they don't like my kind there:

[Madrun Badrun]

lol what?  how did they find out?

[Phoenix Dark]

Bob Jones University..? oh boy

don't let them find out about The Bore breh

[Atramental]

lol what?  how did they find out?

They found my account on NeoGAF. 

This was the thread that led them to me:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407296

Also, in hindsight this post just cracks me up:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=23330521&postcount=2
It literally was my ticket out of BJU. 

Or at least it led up to me coming out as an atheist to the dean of men.

And if you're wondering how they figured out the mischievous red devil was me it's because I used my BJU email address in order to get an account on NeoGAF. 

[brawndolicious]

Ah, it probably wasn't blowjob central.

[Phoenix Dark]

more like anal central

[Atramental]

Or touching 14 year old girls central. 

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm familiar with their middle school curriculum. I don't even want to know what the college history, biology, etc curriculum looks like

[Atramental]

I'm familiar with their middle school curriculum. I don't even want to know what the college history, biology, etc curriculum looks like

Yeah... it's pretty bad. Like mind numbingly bad. You would have to be as gullible as Game Analyst or McLaren777 to believe some of the shit they taught.

[Joe Molotov]

You got banned from college because of a Neogaf post. You should have told them you were dating a black man too. 

[Great Rumbler]

You got banned from college because of a Neogaf post. You should have told them you were dating a black man too. 

A black MUSLIM man.

[Atramental]

    

[Madrun Badrun]

[Van Cruncheon]

You got banned from college because of a Neogaf post. You should have told them you were dating a black man too. 

A black MUSLIM man.

aka the himuro of 2010, between the months of january and april

[Dickie Dee]

And if you're wondering how they figured out the mischievous red devil was me it's because I used my BJU email address in order to get an account on NeoGAF. 

So they somehow came across the neogaf thread and then searched all student's email to find you

[Himu]

You got banned from college because of a Neogaf post. You should have told them you were dating a black man too. 

A black MUSLIM man.

aka the himuro of 2010, between the months of january and april

incorrect! November to September!

[Atramental]

And if you're wondering how they figured out the mischievous red devil was me it's because I used my BJU email address in order to get an account on NeoGAF. 

So they somehow came across the neogaf thread and then searched all student's email to find you

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure how they found out it was me. My primary assumption is that they had some sort of search feature to monitor their student's emails. So I guess they typed in the word "neogaf" and my account activation email popped up in their search.

But I do have another hypothesis... I have reason to believe that there is a gaffer who is a former or current BJU student that might've ratted me out. When I was going through someone's facebook feed I found that person and another person commenting about my "don't re-enroll" letter I posted in this thread. Man... talk about douche chills. 

[Shaka Khan]

Second theory is much more believable. Especially if he's some religious right-wing nut who didn't appreciate some of your flagrant views. Some people's vaginas get too sandy when GAF's atheist-lead piling-ons take place.

[Atramental]

Second theory is much more believable. Especially if he's some religious right-wing nut who didn't appreciate some of your flagrant views. Some people's vaginas get too sandy when GAF's atheist-lead piling-ons take place.

True, true.

I wish I could find those screenshots I took of those comments.

Facebook's new timeline feature makes it almost impossible to look back on older conversations.

Maybe if I do some digging on my computer I can find them.

edit: Awwww Yeah! Found them! Let me just censor some stuff and then I'll upload them.

[Atramental]

And here's the guy who posted that link:


edit: And no. It wasn't Garry Whitta who ratted me out. 

edit2: Sweet! I found the original conversation.

edit3: Update.




"Haha <guy's name>. So typical of admin here. Ugh"

Hmmm.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

You probably got ratted out.  It seems like BJU would be teeming with snitches who will snitch on anyone in order to show that they are the most holy one.

[benjipwns]

I told someone not on The Bore about this because it's amazing, please don't get me expelled from the schools I don't attend.

It was after you posted the facebook stuff.

[Atramental]

You probably got ratted out.  It seems like BJU would be teeming with snitches who will snitch on anyone in order to show that they are the most holy one.

Yeah. Now that I think about it this is probably the more likely scenario.

Also, when I was going through my "Getting kicked out BJU" celebration thread I found this post:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28865407&postcount=50   

Riiiiight. I as a liberal atheist wanted to get kicked out of one of the most conservative Christian "universities" in the US because I wanted to gain favor from a video game message board. 

[Yeti]

Why did you attend that school in the first place?

[Atramental]

Why did you attend that school in the first place?

Once upon a time I used to be religious and somewhat sheltered.

Also, my parents tricked me into thinking that this was the only university (that wasn't a community college) that they could afford to send me to that offered my major (Graphic Design). That of course wasn't true because now I'm at USC Upstate studying Graphic Design.

[Atramental]

Looks like everything is going to be okay.

This probability & stats class is pretty easy so I had no trouble catching up with the rest of the class.