PANIC!

[jillithian]

Email from my advisor to the MBA department:

Hi [redacted]

Jill is doing her Master's in Engineering Management. She has opted for MBA 634 as an elective in her program. Can you please accommodate her in this class?

Thanks.

Registration started last Wednesday and it will be my last semester of classes other than my research credits. I've had my program (including these elective credits) approved since spring of 2007. But I can't register for this elective without permission of the MBA department.

Email from MBA department to myself and my advisor:

Dr. [redacted],

We will consider your request, however, we need to allow time for our MBA students to complete their registration first. After December 1st, I will check the enrollment of the class to see if space is available. I will respond with an answer at that time.

Thank you.

As of right now, not even a week into registration and still 13 days from December 1st, the class has only 2 of 25 seats open.

PANIC!

Right now I am scrambling for some class, ANY CLASS, that will fit my requirements. The hardest part is that I think I need it to be a 600 level class - which there are few and far between that appeal to me. And if it's not on the standard approved electives list (which is short), I need to get approval from my advisor. Plus, if I don't get into this class, I'll need to file for a change in study program. And still find a class that's remotely related to something I'm interested in!!!

This one interests me but it is a 500 level class and has nothing to do with software engineering, but could be used in conjunction with the Facilities and Manufacturing classes I've taken: ETS 582 - Renewable/Nondepletable Energy - Evaluation of energy resources including environmental, social, political, and economic considerations; synthesis and evaluation of renewable resource potential/rationale.

That sounds super interesting to me, but due to previously mentioned reasons, I'm not sure I should even look at it any more. Plus its three times a week during the day, which is increasingly more difficult to schedule work around.

I am literally going department by department, looking for a 600 level class that remotely interests me and fits my schedule.

I'm already stressed and disappointed in the fact that I'm pushing my graduation out another semester, and this isn't helping!!!!

Comments

[viksin.livejournal.com]

Can you go to the Dean and point out your mutual interest in graduating on time? Sometimes the Dean can find open spots that dont' exist on paper. The magic pen could be whipped out.

[verucagonff.livejournal.com]

This seems like a good course of action.

whine

[jillithian.livejournal.com]

How does one do that?

I don't know if I have the balls to go up to the Dean's office and say "Hi. I'm not in your program and I can't get into one of your program's classes that I want to get into. Can you just let me into the class anyway, even though it's full?"

I'm just crabby because I can probably get into another of the MBA classes that involves legal regulations and that kind of crap, which is an approved elective, but I'm really not interested in that and much more interested in this class's material.

[verucagonff.livejournal.com]

What are the chances of getting approval from your advisor on non-standard electives?