Primordial Chaos

That SHOULD be a song.

Ok, so, I stay up late last night to register for my classes to make sure I got what I picked out, had a very sweet schedule all planned out, decided to take a couple of fun classes that fulfill gen ed, was really excited. Midnight comes around, I can't register. I try until 12:30 then go to bed because I have to be up at 5:30. Last semester there was an IT issue and all honors students couldn't enroll, so I didn't stress it, figured it was the same retardedness. Oh no, they had to dose me with a fresh new batch of fucking stupidity. IT has to issue the exceptions for honor students to enroll early. I knew my exception had been cleared, got the email from IT, blah blah. As I find out today, every semester about 10 honors students suffer from a system glitch that removes the exception from the semester they are trying to enroll in. This happened to me. Alright, I think, I'll just tell IT I'm glitched and can they reissue my exception.

They tell me in no uncertain terms no. Basically, more like "no, and fuck you". I get some story about how they only run the exceptions one time, and if someone gets glitched or accidentally left off, namely it's IT error that it happened, too bad, that sucks for you. The 3 people I talked to at IT were rude, like I was bothering them about something that's not their problem. One of them even felt the need to call the honors office and gripe them out for my requesting my early enrollment be activated. So here I've been busting my ass in my classes to remain an honors student, fuck, I'm an honors student 5 different ways, and UNM isn't holding up their end of the bargain. So I now have to wait to enroll, and I'm behind honor students, grad students, seniors, and juniors. I believe a couple other special populations as well, veterans and the elderly. The honors class I specifically went to a boring ass 3 hour meeting to enroll early for is now filled. Chances are really good I won't get most of my classes, since guess what, they were mostly junior/senior level classes, and they're super popular and fill fast. That's why I was so excited, I was going to get into all these fun and interesting classes next semester. That's fucked.

I've seriously never been this pissed off. I'm not even exaggerating. I'm completely enraged. I've been scowling and walking around with my fists clenched ALL DAY. No one can help me, I tried all over the university. I cried in rage earlier, and I'm doing it again now. I'm the cream of the crop at UNM, and THEIR system fucks up, and I have to be penalized for it? No. FUCK NO. NOT ACCEPTABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

I was actually considering transferring somewhere, ANYWHERE, for spring. If they won't even correct their mistakes to take care of their best and brightest, fuck them. That's not an academic environment I am going to be happy in. If the good students don't matter, then fuck, NONE of the students matter. Here I am making them look way better than they are, and I get treated like I'm insignificant and they don't give a fuck about me as long as my tuition is paid. I've fucking had it. I was considering if I didn't get into one of the schools I was eying just staying here, graduating, then going to one of my preferred schools for graduate level study. NO FUCKING WAY EVER WILL I STAY NOW. No wonder the New York Times called UNM a "failure factory". They fucking are!

I will stay for Spring, mostly because it's rather last minute to transfer and I don't want to be stressed out more than I am with finals looking me in the face. I am not, for any reason, staying beyond that. There is NOTHING they can do that would justify my presence there a moment longer. I don't give a rat's dick if they offered to buy me a house, or a Ferrari, or crown me queen. I've suffered enough bullshit at the hands of UNM that redemption is beyond them.

I need a pomegranate margarita or 5. I'll continue this later.

~A.