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RU Screwed

By laelaps on December 17, 2007.

I apologize, dear readers, for the lack of posts. It's final exam time, yet again, and I've been repeatedly given the famous RU Screw in a number of ways altogether unpleasant and aggravating. I just have one more final to go (Living Primates), but I still have to fight the Man about changing majors before next semester kicks up again. If only I had known the horror that is Rutgers before I decided to come here, but now that I've gotten myself stuck in the academic morass that is this university I feel like a Smilodon mired in the Rancho La Brea tar pits with no way out. The only way to do the things I eventually want to do is through somehow getting through my undergrad years and eventually getting into graduate school, but given the experiences that some of the rest of you have shared here before I know many of you share my frustration for one reason or another. The worst part of it all, though, is that I'm actually paying them for this abuse...





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