Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Frustration

So today I set out to sign up for my spring semester here at our local college, Copper Mountain College....what a hot mess that was. I get there, have to hike all the way up the road with a heavy baby in my arms, wait in line for over an hour, only to be told that all of the classes I need are filled. Then to make matters worse, the woman behind the counter was beyond rude and said "Well this is your responsibility, we started registering 6 weeks ago" Okay, so I'll take that one on the chin..however, had the school gotten their crap together and gotten the schedule out on time without having to change everything at the last minute, I probally would have been better prepared. Furthurmore, we have like a tenth of the classes being offered this semester than what we're used to. Apparently we don't have the funding for teachers and classes. While I can appreciate that and even understand it, what I don't understand is why we have a freaking sports stadium, a solar powered parking lot, and some weird ass trash cans that nobody knows what they do.....other than cost a lot of money. Supposedly, the story is, the school was given an obscene amount of grant money that was only allowed to be used to build a sports stadium and make all kinds of changes to the campus. What really amazes me is that we are unable to fund education but we are able to fund a sport stadium to be built at a community college that is located in the middle of the desert. Most of us who are students at this college are adults who are going to school while we work and raise our families...We're not competing in school sports. That makes this stupid stadium completely unnecesary. If I were a politician in charge of handing out money to schools, I'd make sure it was used for important reality based things...like you know, education. We don't need a sports stadium, we don't need trash cans with cutting edge technology, we might need a solar powered parking lot though I don't know why.....What I do know that we need is better classrooms, more class offerings, quality professors such as Professor Cathy Itnyre, and for goodness sake, new carpet because that nasty glowing orange crap makes me sick to my stomach when I have to sit there staring at it for hours during my class.
To add to my fantastic day, I was already mad about my classes being full, which means I have to take this semester off, then I had to go to the grocery store. I was sitting in my car in front of an open spot waiting for this guy to pass so I could pull in. This jerk proceeds to pull into the spot I was waiting for, and then gives me a smug little "F You" look. I being the calm docile person I am, gave him the finger, yelled a couple of obscenities out the window, and decided to go to another grocery store because I knew if I ran into that dude, I was gonna clock him with a can of corn. As I'm driving away barking a few choice words I realize that my 10 month old, Matthew, is in the backseat trying to imitate the funny little four letter word Mommy keeps repeating...suffice the say, I felt so guilty so now I'm swearing to only use that word when absolutely necessary.
I guess if there's an upside to today, it's that I have about four months to catch up on all of my household projects before I have to dedicate myself to school again.

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