Meagan, Amber and I had a long day yesterday. First, we started out talking to Meagan's counselor at school. She told us Meagan should take Math 1050 or she'd have to take the math test again in a year and hope she passed again. If she took Math 1050, she wouldn't have to take math again, even if she decided to get a Bachelor's degree eventually. She also told us Meagan should take Chemistry 1010, not Chemistry 1110. Apparently Chem 1110 is a really hard class. So that totally changed Meagan's schedule, which we thought was pretty much set for this semester.
Then, we went to the main campus and Meagan got her *FREE* student bus pass. I wish they'd had free student bus passes when I went to school. We couldn't get the parking permit because we kinda forgot to take the suburban registration... Guess we'll do that Thursday morning.
We also checked out textbooks. If Meagan had to buy all her textbooks new it would cost about $600. That's about half of her tuition and fees!!! Man, textbooks are expensive.
We were going to go meet with the research company about Meagan's wisdom teeth right after that, but I kinda forgot to tell her that, so we had to go home and get the address. At least it gave us enough time to grab something quick to eat.
Then we went to the research company and had to read through 2 research studies, which took about 2 hours, by the time their staff consulted with us. The first research study required Meagan to have an iv in her arm for 24-30 hours and that kind of freaked her out. The consultant was nice and found Meagan a study where she'd just have to wear a monitor that was similar to a wrist watch, no iv. That made Meagan SOOOO much happier. Then we found out they didn't have any Friday openings until Sept, so we're going to have to go back for her screening on Sept. 1. At least we'll save lots of money by not having to pay an oral surgeon to extract her wisdom teeth, plus she'll get paid for her time... so I guess it's worth it.
Meagan's friend Brianna and her sister had their wisdom teeth pulled out by the same company and were pleased with the results, so that makes Meagan and me feel better about going to a research company for this...
Anyway, we got home and were able to trade Meagan's schedule around to the classes her counselor recommended. I was relieved, until I realized, right after Meagan left for work that her new schedule wasn't going to work with having her wisdom teeth pulled out! Ack!
After Meagan got back home, we went back to the drawing board and moved her schedule around for, oh, I don't know, the tenth time? We got it to where she'll only miss one biology lecture when she gets her teeth pulled. AND, even better, all of her classes except one are now at the main campus! Yay! Before, they were all over the place. I swear, every class was at a different campus, which was rather unnerving.
So, Meagan and I are both relieved and I am just about ready to hand the college reigns over to Meagan. Maybe I should have from the start, but she seemed to need and appreciate the help, so I helped her. I did tell Cameron that he HAS to decide which college, if any, he is going to by the end of the third quarter of his senior year! He looked at me kind of weird and said, "Okay."
The one thing I did learn from all of this is I'm probably not as stupid at chemistry as I thought I was, I just took too hard of a class in college. No wonder I was so lost. I'm glad Meagan's taking the easier chemistry class first.
2 comments:
How does one get in touch with this research company to get your teeth out? I think Ray might need his done and it would be nice to not have to pay for it!
Sorry about all the crap with college registration and whatnot. I went with David to help him buy his books and he spent about $350! Of course, he's taking anatomy, so that one was about $100+ USED. UGH!
Your dutch oven camping trip sounds fun. Maybe we can do one together for Labor Day? That would be fun! :D
You can probably just google "Jean Brown Research" to get their phone number. If you can't find it that way, let me or Meagan know and we can give it to you. Their address is 1045 East 3900 South, if that helps. Just call first.
When you call them, a receptionist answers the phone and says she'll transfer you to the department you want, then you get a voice mail. It took a while for them to call Meagan back (maybe a week?) and then they played phone tag for about a month before she could get in for her screening. Of course, Meagan went to camp for a week in there, so that set things back. Not having to pay to have her wisdom teeth pulled makes it worth the trouble, though.
Yeah, college registration is fun, fun, fun. Especially if you wait until a month before school starts (or less) to sign up! Meagan bought the college's planner at the book store with all the registration dates in it, so next semester should be much, much better!
Meagan spent $555 on books. I think she's decided to drop the psychology class for this semester because she's already taking biology, chemistry and math, which are all pretty hard/time consuming classes. Her one easy class is social dance. It's a good thing she got a pell grant to pay for all this...
Labor Day sounds fun for a dutch oven trip to the canyon. David and I were talking this morning about if we want to paint the boys' bedroom over Labor Day weekend or if we'd rather do something fun. We were leaning toward doing something fun. Do you think it will be crowded? Which canyon do you want to go to? Maybe if we get there in the morning or if we can reserve a spot it will be better? Do you think it's too late to reserve a spot?
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