My school transcript, as of today, makes it official: I have completed all requirements for graduation, save for the need for 18 more credit hours. I have jumped through all hoops that need jumping through, from the language requirement to the arcane legal courses, the remedial classes to the 400-level classes. (Much of the credit for that goes not to me, but to kind and understanding professors and advisers, who eased my frequent suffering through judicious exceptions and favors, recognizing the need for alternatives when policy is slow to catch up with the ever-dwindling state funding.)
I figure I’ll take 7-10 credits on-line from VT, and get the remaining 8-11 from PVCC. It won’t be a leisurely final semester, but I’m restricted to 100-200 level classes, transfer-wise, so it shouldn’t be a particularly challenging one, either.
I’d like to know if you got what you came here for at Virginia Tech?
From reading your blog the past 16 months, I gather your experience
here has been less than satisfying.
I ask this because I came to Blacksburg myself in August 2003, and
am leaving in a few days having finished up a master’s degree. Looking
back at the short time I have spent here, I generally have positive
feelings about the friends, classes, and experiences I’ve had.
Thanks – Jesse
Frankly, I came here for a piece of paper, and I’m on track to get it, so, yeah, I’m happy about it. :) I’ve made friends, particularly among my professors, and I quite like the New River Valley. But living 150 miles away from my fiancee as a reluctant 26-year-old undergraduate…an eagerness to be elsewhere is inevitable, I suspect.