Tuesday, September 29, is an important date in the fall 2009 calendar: the first day of withdrawal for full term courses. (Pause for bugle revelry) Please remember that every withdrawal needs a last date of attendance. This date needs to be input when you assign the withdrawal because you can’t go back into the record later and add it. Only R&R can add the last date of attendance if you forget it and we don’t like to do that.
I was pondering why a student might possibly want to withdraw from his classes. With the exception of a few departments, the courses are interesting. The professors are dedicated and friendly. All the support staff is supportive. The food is good. For window gazers, such as myself, the landscaping is beautiful. What’s not to like? Then I figured it out. Students stop attending when they discover that they are no longer able to attempt to kill me coming out of the parking lot. For seventeen years I have eluded death with each entrance and departure from campus. I’ve laid more rubber than Jeff Gordon avoiding students who appear to be shot from cannons out of the student parking lots. I’ve financed my mechanic’s yearly “Livin’ and Lubin’” conference trip with brake replacements. I’ve been sideswiped (paint job!), run off the road (flat tire!), rear ended (another paint job!) and terrorized (Valium!) just trying to make my way back and forth from Lot K to Brighton Henrietta Townline Road.
But no more. This summer the parking lot entrances and exits were changed. Everything makes sense now. It’s safe. No one can leave class and turn their car into a lethal weapon. I am safe; the students stop coming to class. I apologize.
On Tuesday you can feel free to withdraw those frustrated students who have left to pursue reckless driving in a more conducive location. For my part, I am thankful that the college spent so much time and money just to protect me. I’m feeling very cherished. Not sure why I still have to park quite so far away though. Maybe building me my own parking space right outside my office window is on next summer’s agenda. (Pretty tricky engineering because I’m on the second floor!)
P.S. Please remember to include the student’s last date of attendance when you submit a withdrawal!
Deborah Benjamin
Registration and Records
09/25/2009 |