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I think the weather hates me.
Last Friday, when I was going to go out to DHS to see about MaineCare and food stamps, we got our first snowstorm of the year and getting on a bus seemed like a fool's errand at best.
Today, when I was going to go out to Southern Maine Community College (I still want to call it Technical College, they just changed the name a couple years ago) to talk to someone about my weirdass situation and fill out an application, we get hit with snow followed by sleet and I swear to god I hear tiny hail. So, getting on a bus has been upgraded to suicidal at best.
At least I can still fill out an application online, which I did, but of course with this weather my high school, about twenty minutes away from here, is closed, so I can't have my transcripts sent out till Monday. Heh, my transcripts are going to crack them the fuck up. See, I was supposed to graduate in 2001 but failed to do so because I pretty much spent my senior year with my head crammed up my ass (some people might call it depression, which it was, but looking back it was all just so stupid that I can't bring myself to give it a serious name). I started seeing a shrink that year, and about six months after I failed to graduate, she diagnosed me with Attention Deficit Disorder, which pretty much explained my entire life, including the part where I started to burn out on school my sophomore year. It had been assumed up till then that I would be going for my GED, but with this new information and on medication, I decided to go back to school instead, if only to prove to myself that I could indeed graduate.
At that point, the 2002 semester was scheduled to start shortly, and I required more credits to graduate than I could get in just half a year. Given that my birthday is in January and I wouldn't turn twenty-one till 2004 (you can't go to high school after age twenty, for obvious reasons), I was eligible to wait and start in the fall. However, I was afraid that if I waited for too long, I would sort of forget how to be in school, if you know what I mean, so I chose to start in January instead.
So, what you see when you look at my high school transcripts are four normal years of school, then half a year of being a junior again, and then a second senior year. I can't be the first person ever to go that route, but I bet they don't see that too often in SMCC admissions.
Last Friday, when I was going to go out to DHS to see about MaineCare and food stamps, we got our first snowstorm of the year and getting on a bus seemed like a fool's errand at best.
Today, when I was going to go out to Southern Maine Community College (I still want to call it Technical College, they just changed the name a couple years ago) to talk to someone about my weirdass situation and fill out an application, we get hit with snow followed by sleet and I swear to god I hear tiny hail. So, getting on a bus has been upgraded to suicidal at best.
At least I can still fill out an application online, which I did, but of course with this weather my high school, about twenty minutes away from here, is closed, so I can't have my transcripts sent out till Monday. Heh, my transcripts are going to crack them the fuck up. See, I was supposed to graduate in 2001 but failed to do so because I pretty much spent my senior year with my head crammed up my ass (some people might call it depression, which it was, but looking back it was all just so stupid that I can't bring myself to give it a serious name). I started seeing a shrink that year, and about six months after I failed to graduate, she diagnosed me with Attention Deficit Disorder, which pretty much explained my entire life, including the part where I started to burn out on school my sophomore year. It had been assumed up till then that I would be going for my GED, but with this new information and on medication, I decided to go back to school instead, if only to prove to myself that I could indeed graduate.
At that point, the 2002 semester was scheduled to start shortly, and I required more credits to graduate than I could get in just half a year. Given that my birthday is in January and I wouldn't turn twenty-one till 2004 (you can't go to high school after age twenty, for obvious reasons), I was eligible to wait and start in the fall. However, I was afraid that if I waited for too long, I would sort of forget how to be in school, if you know what I mean, so I chose to start in January instead.
So, what you see when you look at my high school transcripts are four normal years of school, then half a year of being a junior again, and then a second senior year. I can't be the first person ever to go that route, but I bet they don't see that too often in SMCC admissions.
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Anyway, maybe your situation won't be as tough as you foresee. I certainly hope it won't.