Jan 7, 2009
Waste of Money or Waste of Time?
At present, I’m taking 2 courses for the Spring. 1 course is a distance ed course while the other is a lecture. The distance ed course I need for my minor (political science). The lecture course is something I don’t really need at all. It’s a Crim course on policing.
Why am I taking something I don’t need?
Here’s my current thought process right now.
I can drop my lecture course and save $700 on tuition. This means I will be enrolled in only one course for the Spring and it’s distance. I save a further $130 by surrendering my U-Pass (a university subsidized transit pass for me to get around the area).
My dad however thinks this is a bad idea. He wants me to take an additional course that I don’t need so that I can get out of the house and socialize with people that I would never socialize with anyway. My friends are in different faculties.
I told him I’d make a habit of going out to the library every day but ugh. I think this is a waste of time and a waste of money. Not only that, it puts my GPA in danger of dropping.
Reasons for lack of courses
I’ve about 80 credits. All 3rd year and higher level courses for Criminology are courses I can’t enroll in because I haven’t declared. I haven’t declared yet because my GPA wasn’t high enough until after the exams. There’s a minimum of 2.25 that a student needs to have. I found out after my exams that I had reached the required minimum.
Not only that? But the Criminology faculty is no longer accepting major declarations for the Spring semester. This means I have to wait until Summer before I can start working on it.
Sometimes I wish I were born white so I wouldn’t have the stereotypical Asian dad.