NWR Dowling College, other things VENT

This college is seriously P*ssing me off!!!

Im in their quailifier program which means I am short 6 undergrad credits for language. Stonybrook where i did undergrad didntrequire you to take language. So what stinks is yu have to go to an advisor to make your schedule for you. So I go last Nov to make the schedule and the guy sticks me with the WORST classes!! Tues 8:30-11pm in brookhaven for sign lang ( ihave to take that) and the thurs night my 2 grad classes from 5:30-10pm in brookhaven! Since i have gotten sick I wanted to get out of one of the late thurs eve classes. I have been on the phone with counselors all week trying to get into classes. I look online and see one is open! So i call up hes like...the prof has to add u since classes already started. I was tried telling them I have docs note i cant got until monday, can I email the professor...the guys is like no no, go see him on monday. I called everyday and no one told me that! I work 6:30 to 2:30pm and dont want classes that late...getting over being sick, work full time, school full time...ive already driven myself into the ground. So while I have the counselor on the phone i complained about the guy who gave me my schedule in the first place, and the counselor asked me why i was given those classes, there are no pre reqs anymore... I told him the other counselor told me thats how I had to take them....he was like nononono you dont have to follow sequence! i was like ahhh!!!! Why arent ppl being straight with me. So now im stuck with these classes, unless doc puts me on medical leave from college...which i wont know until monday

im so sorry. This is my 4th week being couped up and tossed around with myu schedule. I havent gone out or had fun or really did anything with FH. You guys are the only ppl i have really been talking too, which is why i have been posting like crazy. I just feel like im breaking down....one months salary down the drain, and i went back to the doc today...a different on call doc then monday (my doc is on vaca) and she swears the pneumonia is gone i just have a severely irritated airway and chest infection (oh goody) and in addition to my cough medicine that has a painkiller in it and my avelox which is HEAVY duty and makes me all spaced out and dizzy, AND the advair to help me breathe...now this other woman who i never met before throws some steroids my way and says take these (its a massive dose) and youll feel better..but youll gain weight! I just lost weight and now i feel just overmedicated....cranky and lonely....depressed that I cant do anything and mad that FH got sick (im waaaay cranky..he was the only one who was really taking care of me) I feel like such a loser being out of work for so long and losting so much money for the wedding...my parents havealready gone above and beyond and now im in an even bigger hole...FH only gives so much $ but i know he could give more...i can only be stretched so far...and now all i wanna do is cry...which is hard bc im just all aaaaahhhhh from the medicine. I just wanna toss myself in to a corner from the restlessness.

Thanks for listening.

That sounds awful! I hope you feel better soon!

i'm sorry, the only comfort I can give is that my whole family (including my dad) seems to have had pneumonia in the past year and in all cases steroids were the last resort but they worked.

so hopefully they will work for you. and no one gained weight i had to take them once for some weird poison ivy skin thin and i didn't gain weight from them.

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Posted by snwb08

i'm sorry, the only comfort I can give is that my whole family (including my dad) seems to have had pneumonia in the past year and in all cases steroids were the last resort but they worked.

so hopefully they will work for you. and no one gained weight i had to take them once for some weird poison ivy skin thin and i didn't gain weight from them.

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really? Thanks for sharing...I feel so medicated and I cant go back to work until maybe monday, if I am feelign better...and if not then i have to go on disability and take leave from school. I think i am getting depressed from being couped up...i had it mildly to begin with, but its just getting worse.

how long did it take ur fam to get better?

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Posted by madseason

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Posted by snwb08

i'm sorry, the only comfort I can give is that my whole family (including my dad) seems to have had pneumonia in the past year and in all cases steroids were the last resort but they worked.

so hopefully they will work for you. and no one gained weight i had to take them once for some weird poison ivy skin thin and i didn't gain weight from them.

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really? Thanks for sharing...I feel so medicated and I cant go back to work until maybe monday, if I am feelign better...and if not then i have to go on disability and take leave from school. I think i am getting depressed from being couped up...i had it mildly to begin with, but its just getting worse.

how long did it take ur fam to get better?

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well, i think i fm'd you my sister had a really bad case - she was hospitalized. My dad is still coughing but it was the steroids that helped him get rid of the pneumonia. he's had it for about a month

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Posted by snwb08

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Posted by madseason

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Posted by snwb08

i'm sorry, the only comfort I can give is that my whole family (including my dad) seems to have had pneumonia in the past year and in all cases steroids were the last resort but they worked.

so hopefully they will work for you. and no one gained weight i had to take them once for some weird poison ivy skin thin and i didn't gain weight from them.

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really? Thanks for sharing...I feel so medicated and I cant go back to work until maybe monday, if I am feelign better...and if not then i have to go on disability and take leave from school. I think i am getting depressed from being couped up...i had it mildly to begin with, but its just getting worse.

how long did it take ur fam to get better?

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well, i think i fm'd you my sister had a really bad case - she was hospitalized. My dad is still coughing but it was the steroids that helped him get rid of the pneumonia. he's had it for about a month

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thats right!! Im on 4 diff meds...so im a lil loopy...the antibiotic is strtoong and makes me dizzy a nd the cough suppresant has painkiller in it...then theres the steriod and advair!

thanks so much

Gotta love Dowling. I needed 1 class to get my early childhood education certification in general and special ed because i already have my masters. I calledandwas told i cannot register for the class i want to take because i dont have the pre-rec which is literacy acquisition. So i explain that in order to receive a masters from dowling and a new york state teaching certification then i would have had to take literacy acquisition. They then proceed to tell me that i have taken literacy acquisition however the class i want to take is both a masters and an undergrad class. I took literacy acquisition on the masters level so the person on the phone told me i would need to take literacy acquisition on the undergrad level even though it's the same class to take the class i wanted to. I ended up flipping out and they finally allowed me to sign up. ***?!

Sorry you're dealing with this crap. I hope everything gets better!

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Posted by JoesFutureWife

Gotta love Dowling. I needed 1 class to get my early childhood education certification in general and special ed because i already have my masters. I calledandwas told i cannot register for the class i want to take because i dont have the pre-rec which is literacy acquisition. So i explain that in order to receive a masters from dowling and a new york state teaching certification then i would have had to take literacy acquisition. They then proceed to tell me that i have taken literacy acquisition however the class i want to take is both a masters and an undergrad class. I took literacy acquisition on the masters level so the person on the phone told me i would need to take literacy acquisition on the undergrad level even though it's the same class to take the class i wanted to. I ended up flipping out and they finally allowed me to sign up. ***?!

Sorry you're dealing with this crap. I hope everything gets better!

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thanks!!! Ive been so sick and on mon i called and asked to spw a grad advisor on the phone about my schedule and they guy was like we cant have u do that, u have to come in...i was like im sick....i cant....its not just flu or cold...he says theres one in right now...i sd ok and had my mom drive me (i cant drive on the meds) and we go the half hour trip there and i go into the offce and they tell me....no grad advisors here...they come in after 4. i was like whhhhaaaaaa thhhhhhhe fukkkkkk.....i was pissed!!!!

i could have been resting!