CURIOSITY KILLED KATTEYCATT

wickedwookofthewest:

dean denied my freshman transfer history courses

dean denied 21 hours for fall semester

dean is making me wait an entire fucking semester to graduate for one fucking class.

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC THEORY… I am a fucking history major. fuck you music.

fuck you dean.

Whatever. I’m coming back…

I had a similar situation. I did an academy year in Germany (talked to the dean prior to applying there, he said it was fine) but when it got to the transfer credits approval, he denied more than half. I was so pissed… so I wrote him a long email about how our uni has always encouraged student exchanges and how that year was a super valuable academic experience and how it felt like I was being punished for pursuing my academic interests and blah-blah-blah. Also, professed my undying love to my Alma Mater and how I would, of course, love to take another semester, but since the transfer credits fill the credit requirements for BA it would be a good time for me to move on and start building my career and all.

He replied saying that he will review my transcripts again and in the end he approved all the credits. I don’t know if reasoning with your dean is even an alternative, but it might work! Definitely worked for me. Good luck with everything! ^^

This is going to be a long one, but I just can’t keep silent.  Especially after seeing offensive headlines and Public Shaming’s overview of moronic comments.

As a woman I feel very grateful that she shared her story. 

I have a history of cancer in my family and preventive double mastectomy is something that has been on my mind a lot. I guess I really started to think about it as a possible future option a couple of years ago. It was like a pre-decision that I made for myself - to go through with it if needed, after I have children.

I remember being obsessed with ‘Tomb Raider’ when I was a kid. I was mesmerized by Angelina’s Lara Croft - she was a character like no other I’ve seen before and I wanted to be intelligent, fierce, and strong, and confident, and feminine like her. That fascination with her never faded - watching her on screen, reading her ‘Notes from My Travels’ - she has always been that Woman (with a capital ‘W,’ you know.)

Unfortunately, mastectomy is a procedure that a lot of people continue to see as somehow making a woman ‘less.’ And it’s just sad. And that is why I’m very grateful to Angelina for sharing her personal experience and I hope that it will initiate a shift in the attitudes - 

It’s not a ‘boobs chopping off’ - it’s a procedure that could potentially get you years and years and years of being alive. As surprising as it may be to people like this, a woman is not just her breast tissue, not to mention that there are different types of mastectomy and people do it for treatment or prevention, not for fun or as an eccentric fit.

P.S. One last thing. It is especially sad to see women being so ignorant and cruel, putting other women down…