The school will stand...for now

Maybe I won't burn down the school after all. I met with the "Executive Assistant to the President" the other day, and it turns out that I am only 1.5 credits short of graduating, not the 9 they had originally told me I was short.

How I understood it, if you go over the maximum allowable credits in activity/participation, the amount you are over (4 in my case) need to be made up. They don't just not count, they count against you in essence. So instead of needing 124 to graduate, I need 128.

While I am glad that I will be able to graduate on time by adding an independent study, I'm still frustrated and confused by the system of counting credits at this ass-backwards excuse for an educational institution. This is the first time in my four years here that I have heard about this, and we are told to register for the credits from sports every semester, if I had just stopped registering for those credits when I got to the max allowable, this whole situation would have been avoided...

Unfortunately because of the extra workload, I won't be able to run outdoor track this year. It sucks to end my running career at Cortland like this, I have learned so much and made so many amazing friends while on this team. And for any of those friends reading this, I just want to say how much you have all meant to me over the years.

That said, I will be around, it's not like I'm dying or anything. It was time for me to move on anyway, I feel like I've accomplished all I can in collegiate running, obviously I would have liked to run better, but now it's time to get to other things.

I'm training for triathlons now, so anyone at races this summer better watch out.