{"id":86,"date":"2009-01-13T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-01-13T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T05:25:05","slug":"1st-day-of-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/1st-day-of-school\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Day of School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished my first day of school about half an hour ago. Pretty brutal finishing at 8:30pm on Tuesdays but I&#8217;m thankful to be taking these classes at all. <\/p>\n<p>The reason I started classes a week later than everybody else is the result of an <strong>unfavorable series of events<\/strong> that went down between December and the start of January:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>registered<\/strong> for the Business Admin faculty early December<\/li>\n<li>finally <strong>received a letter 2 weeks later<\/strong> from the BA faculty<\/li>\n<li>letter said my <strong>admission was denied<\/strong> due to me not taking a certain course (BUS207)<\/li>\n<li><strong>talked to the BA advisor<\/strong> about my situation<\/li>\n<li>had <strong>BUS207 waived<\/strong>, was told that my <strong>problem was solved<\/strong> and to wait for an <strong>acceptance letter<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>received a letter<\/strong> beginning of January<\/li>\n<li>letter said my <strong>admission was denied<\/strong> due to me not taking BUS207!<\/li>\n<li><strong>talked to the BA advisor<\/strong>, who couldn&#8217;t really help me at this point<\/li>\n<li><strong>got mad<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>sent an email to the Dean<\/strong> of the BA faculty explaining my situation (on the last possible day to enroll for classes)<\/li>\n<li>received an email within <strong>2 hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>email said I was <strong>admitted to the faculty<\/strong> AND she had <strong>enrolled me<\/strong> into the 2 FULL classes that I needed to graduate<\/li>\n<li><strong>became happy :)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SO, thankfully, there was a happy ending. Now barring I don&#8217;t fail either of these 2 courses, I&#8217;m graduating this April! :):) <\/p>\n<p>Real world, start breathing less air because you&#8217;re about to share some of it with ROD! <\/p>\n<p>And guys, start getting ready for <strong>Vegas<\/strong> cuz it&#8217;s gonna be SWEET <\/p>\n<p><strong>And LUONGO, come back soon &#8211; we need you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished my first day of school about half an hour ago. Pretty brutal finishing at 8:30pm on Tuesdays but I&#8217;m thankful to be taking these classes at all. The reason I started classes a week later than everybody else is the result of an unfavorable series of events that went down between December and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,41,39,44,43,38,37,40],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","tag-course","tag-courses","tag-graduate","tag-happy","tag-mad","tag-rod","tag-school","tag-vegas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rodandmelissa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}