This past week I've fallen even further in love with amazon. More specially, with how incredibly cheap you can find things there, not to mention their free two day shipping with prime. I've purchase some movies for the same price - or cheaper, depending where you go - than it costs to rent them. With so much time on bed rest while everyone else is at work, I've deemed this an investment in my sanity. Too bad I can't buy my physical health as well.
Right now I am in the midst of trying to get things sorted school-wise. It's a lot harder than I feel it should be, but then again, what in life isn't? I really just want to get a medical deferment, and I have the medical documentation and doctor's note - who knew you'd still need one in college? - to more than prove my qualifications for such. Unfortunately, everyone I've talked to in various offices around campus today has said that BYUH doesn't offer medical deferments and that my only option is to discontinue and reapply to return to BYUH when I'm well. There are several problems with this option. 1) I'd have to reapply several months ahead of time, so if I want to reapply for Winter semester, I'd have to discontinue and immediately turn around and reapply, HOPING that I'll be readmitted for Winter semester. Granted, they said that my admittance chances as a returning student would be higher. 2) I'd have to do that process all over again if, Heaven Forbid, I need to take two semesters off for more medical testing. 3) I would lose all of my scholarships, which are relatively substantial. If I write a letter of appeal and it's approved, I will be able to defer half of them for winter semester, and I'd only lose the other half because I discontinued and was no longer a student. If I try to take some online classes fall semester, than I'd lose all of my scholarships. Would it be cheating the system if I discontinued from BYUH and took some online classes elsewhere and just had the credits transferred once I returned? That way I could keep the scholarships and take online classes... So far, I've only spoken to student workers, and I've only spent one day trying to sort all of this out, so there's hope for a brighter answer tomorrow, or sometime in the next month. I need to do some more reading, but I don't believe that forcing me to discontinue and reapply due to medical reasons is legal according to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Good thing I know a good attorney who's passionate about my education. I'm really just hoping to get things sorted with relative ease and kindness; true to my independent self, I'd rather just figure things out on my own.
On the plus side, my movies should be here tomorrow. I'm definitely excited for something new to do. What's even better? The family cat of 10 years came back after being gone for almost a week! We all thought Zipper had become dinner for the coyotes or hawks. Even though I'm allergic, I was happy she's still alive and around. She's mostly an outdoor cat who serves as mouse-catcher, but spends nights and winters in the garage. It's been weird going out there and not being perpetually almost-tripped by a cat zipping between my feet. I doubt I'll be missing that in a day or two...but we all sacrifice things for those we love.
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