2008 Woodie Awards
Four more years!
(Not exactly what you're thinking)
Matt Altieri
Issue date: 10/1/08 Section: Opinion
It's senior year and mom and dad couldn't be any prouder. You've moved into five different apartments, made a ton of friends, explored the Boston area and beyond and now it's all finally coming to an end. That B.A. or B.S. is gonna look pretty good in a frame, too.
Well, guess what? Life sucks and you're not going to graduate this year. You're going to have to do an entire other semester to get that Philosophy degree. But wait a minute, now your in a panic, now your life's in shock. How could this happen to you, a perfect Suffolk student?
Well first things first, it's definitely not your fault…right? I mean you registered for those classes, maybe not at the time the school told you to. You just ended up with whatever was there but I mean hey, that's what showing up the first day is for. You notice a very thick book in the Donahue lounge with all the courses listed. You went by the book, how could you go wrong? What are these things even called? Undergraduate Academic Catalog? What does that even mean!?
A friend inquires to you that the reason you possibly didn't graduate was because you didn't check your program evaluation on Campus Cruiser or pay attention to what your advisor told you. You're sure alot of Suffolk students fall into this category. Who cares what the advisors say? The advising process is nothing but a joke, if you treat it that way. After all, you don't have to pick a major until what? Junior year? Senior year? You knew somebody that didn't even have a major until halfway through their senior year, first semester!
Some people do five years at Suffolk due to the fact that they have to, perhaps trying to achieve a double major or trying to do better in classes they must take again since they performed poorly in the first time, this I can completely understand. But the more I hear some History major complain about how he didn't understand how his 'Piracy' and 'Samuari' classes didn't contribute to the core courses of his overall education,the more it makes you realize that you should stay on top of what's on your program evaluation.
Alright so, it looks like you were wrong. It was your fault. Due to lack of either motivation or common sense, YOU forgot to keep track of your collegiate career. After all, Suffolk is a private school. They want us to make up our own minds on what we can do. It's very possible to graduate within four years yet, the flexibility the school offers us with the advising process makes it all too easy for the student to just overlook the process and drive a four year experience into five. Suffolk treats us like the adults we are and we abuse that privilege and blame the school for not keeping track of OUR lives. Doesn't that sound kind of ridiculous?
Stop blaming the University for the inconsistencies that you have created and take responsibility, for once, of your own lives. mommy and daddy can't help you graduate, only you can.
Well, guess what? Life sucks and you're not going to graduate this year. You're going to have to do an entire other semester to get that Philosophy degree. But wait a minute, now your in a panic, now your life's in shock. How could this happen to you, a perfect Suffolk student?
Well first things first, it's definitely not your fault…right? I mean you registered for those classes, maybe not at the time the school told you to. You just ended up with whatever was there but I mean hey, that's what showing up the first day is for. You notice a very thick book in the Donahue lounge with all the courses listed. You went by the book, how could you go wrong? What are these things even called? Undergraduate Academic Catalog? What does that even mean!?
A friend inquires to you that the reason you possibly didn't graduate was because you didn't check your program evaluation on Campus Cruiser or pay attention to what your advisor told you. You're sure alot of Suffolk students fall into this category. Who cares what the advisors say? The advising process is nothing but a joke, if you treat it that way. After all, you don't have to pick a major until what? Junior year? Senior year? You knew somebody that didn't even have a major until halfway through their senior year, first semester!
Some people do five years at Suffolk due to the fact that they have to, perhaps trying to achieve a double major or trying to do better in classes they must take again since they performed poorly in the first time, this I can completely understand. But the more I hear some History major complain about how he didn't understand how his 'Piracy' and 'Samuari' classes didn't contribute to the core courses of his overall education,the more it makes you realize that you should stay on top of what's on your program evaluation.
Alright so, it looks like you were wrong. It was your fault. Due to lack of either motivation or common sense, YOU forgot to keep track of your collegiate career. After all, Suffolk is a private school. They want us to make up our own minds on what we can do. It's very possible to graduate within four years yet, the flexibility the school offers us with the advising process makes it all too easy for the student to just overlook the process and drive a four year experience into five. Suffolk treats us like the adults we are and we abuse that privilege and blame the school for not keeping track of OUR lives. Doesn't that sound kind of ridiculous?
Stop blaming the University for the inconsistencies that you have created and take responsibility, for once, of your own lives. mommy and daddy can't help you graduate, only you can.
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