OMGT3HIDIOTAS

checked my email today before heading back to LA, and upon receiving three crapmails, i took time to read one of them. it says:

Dear Revelle Senior,

The University of California requires that a student complete a minimum of 180 units to graduate. Revelle College requires 184 units. On occasion, the College has approved petitions allowing students to graduate with a College shortage of up to 3.5 units.

The Registrar's Office has recently disputed the authority of the college to grant this exception. We are in the process of asking the UCSD Academic Senate for clarification, and we hope to report their decision to you soon.

Until we have a clarification, students requesting permission to graduate with less than 184 units (but more than 180.5) can not depend on a rapid College decision. If you are requesting to graduate with a technical unit-shortage of up to 3.5 units, you should now submit a petition to the Revelle Provost> '> s Office requesting this exception. The petition may have to be forwarded to the Faculty Senate Committee on Educational Policy. We do not know how they will rule on such petitions. While this issue is being reviewed, we recommend that you add an additional class, if possible, to eliminate the technical unit shortage. Please consult with your academic counselor if you have questions.

Daniel Wulbert
Professor, Mathematics
Provost, Revelle College

this is going to sound rather lame, but OMGWTF? looks like people these days just want controversy or something. not just the system, but also the players. what is so damn hard about getting 184 units in 4 years? i don't get it. the NORMAL load that students have take when enrolled in a 4-year institution in a quarter system is 16 units, and that's 4 classes. if you want to go easy, you take 3 classes, which adds up to 12 units, but this is a MINIMUM AMOUNT OF UNITS FOR BEING A FULL-TIME STUDENT. anything less than 12, your enrollment is considered part-time. if you think 16 units just doesn't do it, take 5 classes for 20 units.

of course, this depends on the person, but 4 classes every quarter should be a NORMAL workload for everyone in the UC system. if you think four 10-week classes are way too much work, then you either have no dedication and slack off too much, or are just one of those people who obey darwin's law of natural selection, with you being the one NOT surviving. now grab your fine-ass calculator and punch this shit in: 16*12. then hit the equal sign. or the ANS key if you're using one of those fancy TIs. lest your calculator is a fucked up one, it should spit out 192. yes, people. ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO. that's how many units you will get if you take four classes every quarter, focus on them, and pass them every quarter for 4 years. it is NOT hard. all you need is some dedication. if dedication does not work, try MORE dedication.

if you're complaining how your major is very fucking hard, then think about switching. if you're struggling while taking classes that are required for your major, chances are you won't be making much out of it when you get a job in that field in the future. then why bother suffering? do something that requires less suffering. like philosophy.

but that aside, i don't get what's bothering these people with the 180 vs 184 units-to-graduate requirement? it's just 4 extra units. that's ONE class. ONE. take some shit class with a P/NP option and you don't even have to worry about your damn GPA. get a C- in the class and BOOM, you're out. it is NOT hard to get a C- in college. it's super hard to get an A, but not a C-. i once took a linguistics class for a P/NP option: never went to class, hardly did any readings, did average on the midterm, failed the final, and ended up passing with a C-. of course no one will ever know because it will only show up as P in my transcript. but that's besides the point; the point is, it is not much of a deal to take one extra shit class for P/NP and pass it. stop making a big deal out of things like these. and if you're one of those people that wulbert mentioned as having "more than 180.5 but less than 184," HOLY MOTHER MONKEY, GO TAKE GOSPEL CHOIR! that shit is 3 units and you don't even have to sing. i mean, think about it: standing among 199 other people singing the same damn song, only god knows you're lip-synching.

this academic senate committee should be obliterated. if they get paid a shitload of money just to talk and discuss shit like this, that's utter bullshit. it's like they have nothing better to do than to discuss shit issues like this. why not talk about how the damn construction next to mandeville is ruining the taste of the sumatran coffee sold by the art of espresso? why not talk about how it is illegal for the bookstore to withhold public information such as the ISBN number of a textbook for next quarter? why not talk about how students need S spots more than faculty members do A spots? why not talk about cutting half the operation of the campus loop shuttles and allocating them to the cityshuttles since they only promote laziness anyway? and don't give me the crap about how handicap people need the loop shuttle. handicap people have their own campus golf cart transporting them from places to places, before and after class. if the committee does not have enough intelligence to discuss heavy issues, then i have a gazillion small issues for them to discuss. small, but not stupid issues like 180 vs 184 minimum units to graduate.

berate me, if you're in the senate, or knows anyone who's a member of that stupid shit.