Back Into The Groove

I am getting back into my old routine now that school has started once again. Hopefully this will be my last semester. In fact I know it will be my last semester. For one, I am running out of financial aid. Apparently the federal government thinks it knows more about how to get a degree and the schedule for its completion better than I or the CS department of GVSU do. The other reason I know this will be my last semester is because I already have a job waiting for me. My internship in Key West went better than I could have hoped. They were impressed with my skill set and have offered me a position within the company.

You would think that GVSU would be pleased to see that their curriculum has created an individual who with his first experience outside of school did so well as to elicit full time employment. I would expect the faculty and administration to be overjoyed by such accomplishment and would do their best to hurry me along the program so that I can get out into the workforce and become productive. However this is just not the case.

The university is fighting tooth and nail to keep me in Grand Rapids for as long as they can by claiming I do not meet graduation requirements, General ed requirements, and even major requirements. Sadly, what they don’t understand is that I am paying them for a service. Up until now they have controlled the scope, schedule, and time of this project. Well not anymore. There is a new constraint in place, time. So they will either change the cost or the scope of my degree. Since I highly doubt they will create a new degree just for me that leaves cost. I fully expect this last semester to be the most expensive semester of my college career. Hopefully it will be my last and thankfully the next phase in my life is already waiting for me.