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This might be rudimentary for some folks, but anyone like me: meet with counselors regularly to make sure you're on-track for graduation!
I was my own counselor. I used the course catalogs to determine what courses I needed to take to graduate. I thought I was doing well til I found (during what I assumed was my last semester) that I needed additional math credits and anothet credit in some other weird category to graduate. I took summer courses of Pre-Calc and Bowling to graduate a semester later than expected.
Holy shit. Me, too. Yes, nothing quite so sad as Bowling For Diplomas.
Lol no kidding. Glad we made it out the other side! I'm assuming you're from the US as well?
Aside from the initial class meeting, my bowling credit was largely "independent study", meaning I just had to log 9 games a week at the school's rec center bowling alley.
I mistakenly did the math one day. I don't remember the figures (thank goodness) but I'd have saved a lot more money than I thought (for a cheaper state school) just....bowling 9 games a week at the local bowling alley.
But where's the prestige of a college credit approved by my professor, a fella that I think played Lollipop Chainsaw on the Xbox + "Party in the USA" over the PA every day I went in that summer? Lol
Yup. I am. My professor was pretty good about it, though, knowing a lot of us had to commute for his class. He calculated the average strings per hour, then let us comp out to an A. Some of us had to make up two gym credits, so he offered to let us comp out both gym classes just bowling, letting us skip the "lifestyle fitness" class.
But yeah, never do the math. The gym class is just a moneymaker for them.
Right, also be mindful with changing majors as it can mean there's new requirements. Had to go take another foreign language two years after taking my original major's amount. Was not the most fun trying to pick it back up
I switched majors and had to take a whole extra year because of when final level classes were offered.