Failure to Graduate
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
I missed the deadline to check why I didn't qualify for graduation! Darn it. The deadline was 30 Jan and I only read the mail yesternite. Screwed up. This is what happens if you don't check the most-of-the-time crappy NUS email box. Apparently, I have failed my faculty requirement check and major requirement check. Though I know very confidently that I have fulfilled both requirements, it was still a rather difficult-to-sleep night (you know when your mind is thinking and thinking about something and you just keep tossing and turning in bed). I slumbered early @ 2330 with the mind set on waking up at 0730 the next morning so that I can ask the Dean's office and Chemistry Dept office at the first instant they open at 0830.
I am already a regular "customer" at the Chem office. Ema knew me by name and she was quite surprised when she saw my failure to qualify for graduation. After checking the records, she found out that my ISM module was coded as "UIS" so there was a failure to register this module as a level 3000 chemistry elective. Phew... relieved. There was still the faculty requirement to check; afterall, things are more complicated with this requirement. What 3 groups of modules plus 1 from any other + the two CBMs which could be counted as two distinct groups... whatever.
Ok, went to the Dean's office. Lili was there. Just like Ema, she kind of find me familiar too. After I say "William", she went on the say "Wong Yu Kai"? Yup, I got into too much administrative trouble. After checking the records, she said that I am cleared for graduation. Whoa Ho! The reason why the system said that I have not cleared the faculty requirement was that I had not cleared the major requirement, so it was like an automatic thing to say I didn't qualify A, I didn't qualify B. Worries over.
posted byWilliam at 9:29 AM