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A PhD is in progress…

Posted 6 months ago

According to myUCF, anyway.

A few nights ago one of my friends needed to know what the course prefix was for Abnormal Psychology, so I decided to take a little trip to myUCF (where I hadn’t logged on in quite a while) and look those up for him. I did find them, but after finding out that myUCF replaced my undergrad audit with the one for the Human Factors track graduate programme. That sounds like really fantastic news, no?

Well, actually, the story goes more like this…

A while ago I did apply to this particular programme, but my application got rejected. So I really have no idea on why myUCF would confuse things and switch out my undergrad audit for a graduate track programme that I didn’t even get accepted to in the first place. Of course, I realise that they probably did it when I applied to the program but still…yeah. And I am still looking desperately for my undergrad degree audit. Fortunately I had the good sense to print out a complete copy after graduation but I would still like to still be able to access it online, you know?

I posted this particular predicament on Facebook and apparently most everyone thought I had gotten accepted to grad school. While I am grateful and thankful for their praise in cheese, they simply misunderstood the whole thing. I have received about three comments*, one message, and many “likes” on this status update, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve face palmed myself. Hah.

But after thinking about this situation another way, maybe this is a sign. Who the hell knows, really. Right now I am vacillating between laughing, being proud despite the whole thing, and of course, face palming. It’s like, “Yay! I’m officially a graduate student now! But wait…I don’t recall getting in.” Damn. But at least I am taking this in stride and definitely not bemoaning the situation. Because, in a way, it is pretty funny. In any case, this is one UCF mistake that I can actually laugh at because it is surreal.

And again, to everyone who has liked my UCF status update or commented it up to now, I really, really do appreciate your congratulations and such but save it for the day I really do get a graduate degree in something. :)

*Some of these comments have to do with how my dad is doing, though, so more or less they are totally irrelevant to the status update itself.