what's the deal?

thanks to all my friends for all the well wishes regarding my GEORGETOWN acceptance. i'm quite pleased about getting accepted. i've been explaining all day about how getting accepted in this case doesn't mean i'll actually get to go, so i figured as long as i have this space to say what i want i may as well blog about the pre req debocle...

me (via gchat, fb, or text, natch): I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE SCHOOL OF MY DREAMS!

well-wisher: CONGRATS! I'm so happy for you/proud of you/excited that your dreams are all coming true! (i seriously have the best friends!) so what's the deal? when do you head off to DC?

me: oh gosh. the deal is, there's still no deal. it all started way back in july when i found out that my registration date at the local community college was pretty much 2 weeks before classes started. that might not be a big deal at a major institution but seeing as how california is bankrupt there's no money for classes or teachers at any of the JC's and if you're not one of the 1st to register you're not getting in.

ww: but i thought you spent 2 days down at Foothill college trying to add those last 2 pre reqs you needed?

me: oh i did. i just couldn't add them. apparently more than 8400 people DIDN'T get the classes they needed. i begged and pleaded with my potential professors, but they just didn't take pity on me. there was NO way i was getting those classes. and since the classes i need involve labs (so online isn't an option) and i'll always be at the bottom of the registration pecking order i decided i had to flee the state.

ww: so now you're in DENVER, huh? what's the deal?

me: the deal is, there's still no deal. i'm still not sure what's going to happen. i haven't told GEORGETOWN yet b/c there was a chance i could get a late add if someone dropped. i don't know what they'll say when i tell them i didn't get into my classes.

*scenario of my dreams: they tell me to come anyway. they'll waive the physiology lab i'm missing and somehow work microbiology into my insane course load.
*best case scenario (like one that's plausible): they let me defer until fall
*next best option: they take all my application info and slide it into the pile for fall applicants and reconsider me.
*worse case scenario: i have to reapply from scratch
*i just thought of another horrible scenario: they're so mad i didn't tell them about my pre req situation that they ban me from applying again.

for the moment i'm in DENVER with my brother's fam. it's looking like BYU is a more solid avenue to seek these last two classes that i need, so i might be heading back to provo in january. depending on my sis-in-law's job situation i could stay here and take care of the kids, or i could stay here and get another job, or i could go somewhere else. i have no idea.

the deal is there is no deal.

(photos: DC sad face, frustration in CA, possibility for good times in Provo,