Life’s full of irony, and today I was just hit with a heavy dose of it. Right after mak­ing a post about how I could just sit back and relax in regards to get­ting into col­lege, I real­ized that I had a major issue upon me.  Tues­day marks the start of the new semes­ter, and for seniors at my high school, that means switch­ing our reli­gion classes. Our school offers four one0semester reli­gion classes for seniors to choose from there’s Com­par­a­tive Reli­gion, Phi­los­o­phy, Peace and Jus­tice, and Chris­t­ian Lifestyles.  My two pro­jected reli­gion classes were Com­par­a­tive Reli­gion and Phi­los­o­phy. How­ever, upon get­ting my sched­ule yes­ter­day, it turns out  that I was enrolled in Peace and Jus­tice, as opposed to the Phi­los­o­phy course that I was sup­posed to take this com­ing semester.

Now as a stu­dent, I’m as low key as they come. I don’t care what teach­ers I get, nor do I fancy trans­fer­ring in and out of classes. Basi­cally, once I get my ini­tial sched­ule at the start of the school year, it’s set in stone. How­ever, with this sched­ule mishap I had to take an excep­tion. On all of my col­lege apps I put that I was tak­ing Phi­los­o­phy, which meant that tak­ing Peace and Jus­tice would cause seri­ous con­sis­tency issues in regards to my appli­ca­tion and tran­scripts. Hav­ing such a con­sis­tency issue would mean that my admit­tance to what­ever col­leges I got into, would be revoked once they reviewed my final tran­script and noticed that I had two com­pletely dif­fer­ent classes listed.

So I went to go see my coun­selor today to rec­tify the prob­lem but as it turns out, I’m shit out of luck. Basi­cally, with the way my sched­ule is, and with the lack of empty seats avail­able in other classes, no amount of muta­tions to my sched­ule would make it pos­si­ble for me to take a Phi­los­o­phy course. The biggest issue comes from the fact that I take jour­nal­ism which is only offered dur­ing my sec­ond period. Because of that, the amount of workarounds that could be done to my sched­ule were too few to get me into a Phi­los­o­phy class. It’s a long and com­plex thing to dis­cuss, but it basi­cally means that I have the one kind of sched­ule that can’t be fixed to solve the problem.

I am usu­ally the last per­son to absolve myself of blame, but this time I think I just got screwed by cir­cum­stance. First off, on my orig­i­nal sign up sheet I clearly listed phi­los­o­phy, and I met all of the pre-reqs to get into the class. I know this because my coun­selor and I looked it up just to be sure,  it was sim­ply entered into the com­puter wrong.  Sec­ond, I was under the assump­tion that I was tak­ing Phi­los­o­phy in the months lead­ing up to this event, so it isn’t like I saw this com­ing and just decided to act on it now. This basi­cally came out of nowhere, and aside from rais­ing hell about the issue, there’s not much that I can do about it.

Now the good thing is that I won’t have to change around my sched­ule to accom­mo­date a Phi­los­o­phy class, which is good con­sid­er­ing that I like my teach­ers, and all of the peo­ple in my classes. The other good thing is that Peace and Jus­tice is a UC and Cal State approved course, which means that chang­ing the course shouldn’t be an issue for most col­leges. What this does mean though, is that even if I do get accepted into a col­lege, it won’t be 100% approved until I call them and explain my sit­u­a­tion. If that doesn’t work out for some rea­son and my accep­tance gets revoked, then all hell will prob­a­bly break lose.

Sigh, some­times I just gotta vent.