So today something happened to me that made me re-think my religious standpoint. (was a devote Catholic, but after the death of 8 people 6 family and 2 in Will's family all in 3 years, i became rather agnostic/atheist)Something actually is going my way for a change that is so utterly "lucky" that i'm starting to think again that maybe God does listen to me.
So today at my first day of senior sem our teacher pulled me and my friend aside because she is our mentor who we are suppose to be doing research with, problem was all last semester the equipment kept breaking so we couldnt do anything. She brings us into our office and tells us both she has bad news. With everything that went wrong we will not be able to have results for our Senior Thesis in time. So we are going to have to do a Library research Thesis... Now at most schools across the country this is the norm for students but at my University we have such small chem class that that NEVER happens. You have to do research with one of the only 5 chem professors end of question. BUT BY THE STOKE OF LUCK I DONT HAVE TOO!!! What do i get to do? A glorified book report/research paper!!!!! On what? ON ANYTHING!!! ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN! As long as it can tie into chemistry somehow!
Oh and the good news doesnt stop there! Next i finally asked her what the hell was with this new ACS exam (american chemical society, which is a national exam they give ivory league schools to measure overall college chemistry knowledge at top universities) we have to take. They tell us suddenly this year if we dont meet national average we cant graduate. I got second lowest in the class when we took it in the Fall. They are making us retake it. What i couldnt understand was they already added in that grade in our final grade for senior sem last semester... so i talked to my advisor who told me while rolling his eyes "No if you do better your grade will not be changed. Well looks like you need to brush up on all your chemistry and pass that test if you want to graduate"
What does L.M tell me today? That they cant fail us for not passing this test because our year was never informed about as incoming freshman. Why do we have to re-take it then? Because everyone did sooooooo poorly on it, it makes the chemistry department look bad... so they are hoping we boost our scores with the threat of "not graduating". Because if everyone meets the national average my school looks like its has the best chemistry department ever, and teachers like my man that ruin my life keep his job, they get more funding and more poor kids come here for school thinking its a good chemistry department.
HOW IS THIS ALL LEGAL??? HOW??? To lie to students with a threat like that, just so they cover there asses!?
Anyway this is a long post so completely disregard it, i just really needed to rant and get everything off my chest.