UUURgh!!

[nibot]

Two weeks after submitting my ``please waive the senior residency requirement for me, since it is nothing more than a technicality'' petition to the dean of L&S, I receive the following enlightening (and enlightened) reply: ``I'm sorry to inform you that, after careful consideration, Dean Shun has denied your request on the following grounds: (1) the proposed plan for a simultaneous degree will not allow you to satisfy the College residence requirement; and (2) it will not allow you to satisfy the campus senior residence requirement. '' URGH!!! They are soooooo frustrating!!.

Comments

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

errrrrrrrrrrr. did they READ your petition?

[ankaerith.livejournal.com]

*comfort* I'd suggest trying to meet with them in person if you can. As they say, the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Some friends of mine who had been at Berkeley for a number of years imparted some wisdom on me. They basically said, if you raise enough hell long enough, you will get what you want eventually. Your request is not in the slightest bit unreasonable. If you pester them in person enough, I have faith they will grant your request.

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

'careful consideration' indeed.

Dean Shun

[(Anonymous)]

Does anybody else find the slightest irony in the name Dean SHUN?

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I did my petitions at Stanford rather than here. They turned down my petitions for course equivalency for the math and science requirements THREE DAYS before graduation, and I had to run around, write letters and get signatures, but they eventually accepted them the next day. I don't know what I could have done here.

What happens if they deny your request? Do you just lose the right to get any degree from Berkeley at all? The reasons they're stopping you don't seem to be the sort of thing you can make up next semester.