Word: registrars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sicked out of a final exam. I inferred from my acting senior tutor that I would get a letter specifying the time and place of my make-up exam and I spent the first few weeks of the semester unconcerned. After a few weeks more I put "Call the Registrar's Office" on my list of things to do and promptly forgot about...
...days ago, a friend told me that everyone else she knew was taking their make-up exams that week. I called the Registrar's Office and was transferred three times. The man I finally talked to said, "Yep, they're all this week. You know, you're pretty lucky--your exam isn't until tomorrow afternoon." It was then 4:30 p.m. "Lucky" was not the word I would have used...
While I was having a stroke, the man from the Registrar's Office explained that "there was a list of all the times and places in your registration packet. You probably just missed it." I knew I hadn't missed it because I am the sort of anal-retentive person who goes through everything in her registration packet and even reads the drug and alcohol policy before signing...
After half an hour's research, a panel from the Registrar's Office concluded that it was in fact a full course for half credit...
...just to make doubly certain, I called the Registrar's Office. They, surely, would have up-to-the-minute information? Guess again. Even they had no copy of the Addendum. (It really is unpublished.) And the only person who knew its contents was on an extended vacation in the Bahamas...