Trouble Graduating

I have a friend who is having some trouble graduating. Let's call him Mr. Anonymous. You might know him, he writes a blog that I read a lot. Well anyways Brad . . . err I mean Mr. Anonymous . . . is having some trouble graduating. It's not that he's stupid. I mean, jeez, he may be the smartest person I know based solely on pure intelligence. Brad's . . . err. . . ah screw it, everybody knows who I'm talking about anyways. Brad's problem is he is in a constant battle with laziness, and laziness is winning.

Brad is in the final quarter of his 5th year in college. (Or so he thought it was his final quarter!) Keep in mind he's taking 26 credit hours this quarter (the max is normally 20) so he can finish up and get out. Keep in mind he's been there for 5 years and he has to take this many hours in his final quarter to graduate!

Well Brad applies for graduation. He gets rejected. Panic ensues. It turns out he is missing a credit. But Brad was confused. This was a class he had taken. In fact he had taken it last quarter.

Upon inspection Brad discovers that he received an incomplete in this course. Of course Brad was unaware of this because unlike normal people, he didn't bother to check his grade reports (you know, why bother!).

Oh well, all he has to do is talk to the Prof and get him/her to fix this mistake? Right?

WRONG

unbelievably the last day to "fix" an incomplete was Friday, the day that Brad discovered this. So now he has to work the backchannels and get his advisor or an assistant dean somewhere to fix this and let him slide. If only he had established some type of relationship with his advisor by visiting him/her like his parents had so often asked.

Of course, since it took him more than two years to officially change his major I suppose it wouldn't have mattered much because he would have been talking to the wrong advisor. Anyways, that was today's edition of laughing at someone else's misfortune. Hope everyone enjoyed it.