Colleges just want Money

You might say that I am very angry, and you would be 100% correct. I found out last week that I cannot graduate. I sent in my application to graduate to the college around Thanksgiving. Well before the start of my "final" semester. I got an email telling me that I am needing to take 2 more classes. I went into major panic mode, emailing, asking, calling. Now I only have 1 class that I need to take, hopefully I can CLEP macroeconomics. But that is the hopeful part. It is a shot in the dark, a longshot, something that I may not be able to do. Math has never been my forte, it has been my weakness. But that is the ONLY CLEP test available for me to take. I have taken all other courses.

What bothers me the most is that I sent my application in around Thanksgiving. It is right before Spring Break when they tell me I cannot graduate. All I am taking this semester is one class!! If I had known, I would have taken two! The University system is not there to help students, if it was I would not have this problem. Applications would be evaluated within a week or two of receipt. After all, my check was cashed in a timely manner. Within 14 days. But my application was not even looked at until it was too late for me to schedule extra classes.

I am sooooooo angry right now. The university system is out there just to make money for itself. Employers help the university monster get bigger and bigger. You are required to have a bachelors degree to answer the telephone and be a receptionist, especially if you want to have only one job. To flip burgers you probably need to have an associates degree. To do work that I am capable of I have to waste time in the school system and pay them money so they can give me a piece of paper saying that I withstood the initiation process of reading, writing, wasting time, paying money, traveling to and from class, and learning how to manipulate the system. It isn't what I learn, it is how much I pay, both in time and money.