Assistant Dean rules!

[ciroccoj]

Went to see the A. Dean. Told him what's going on, and he suggested this:

1. keep attending class and doing readings and finding time to see my mom
   
2. go have surgery
   
3. try to keep up with other people's notes and/or recordings
   
4. come see him when I'm back
   
5. if I feel OK, keep going until exams
   
6. if I don't feel I can do the exams at the set time, we'll rebook any/all of them
   
7. if I write them and then think I bombed, I can defer whatever class(es) I bombed
   
8. that way I can pass into second year, not have to repay tuition for those courses, and take the exams again next year after auditing whatever parts of the course I missed this time

I didn't even know it was possible to defer marks for a year. Wow. I'm so glad I went to see him.

Comments

[bear.livejournal.com]

Hooray! ::hugs you closely::

I'm *so* glad the administration is going to be reasonable about this. Yay for you! :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

I'm *so* glad the administration is going to be reasonable about this.

:) :) Me too. Chris keeps saying, "I told you so" because he'd said they would be. He figured it was in their interest to keep me instead of turfing me out for silly reasons.

So yeah, OK, he was right. He told me so ;)

[jenniferjames.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I hope everything works out. :-)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[misstexan9821.livejournal.com]

Yay! ::hugs:: for good things!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

[bast2.livejournal.com]

yay! solutions!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yeah! And good ones, too. Other than automatically gifting me with straight A's, I don't know how he could have offered me anything better.

Whew.

[minnesota-anne.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: for good news.

(echoing) I hope everything works out for you. :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

Another "wohoo"!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sooooo glad for you! Nothing like a little understanding and flexibility to restore your hope in the world, eh?

Sarah

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does. Restore my faith, that is ;)

And I feel so much more able to work now. More energized, without this uncertain cloud of possible academic doom poised over me.

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a very good assistant dean, which is lucky and good. Yay for options!

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm feeling pretty lucky right now :) Lucky, and relieved.

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

I'm glad it's working out okay. :)

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Me too :)

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

This is great, but just one thing...

promise that if you *don't* feel okay, you'll defer? Seriously.

::squeez-o-hug::

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

promise that if you *don't* feel okay, you'll defer? Seriously.

I will. I hope I don't have to, but it's really, really nice to know that the option is there. Very safety-net-like :)

[ex-senza930.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad it's going to work out for you. :)