I am forced to drop 2 of my college classes.
I go to a technical college, and I have Financial Aid. After like a month or 4 weeks of going, the students who attend there gets a refund. The more classes you take, the more money you'll get.
In the first semester, I had took 2 classes because a directory of the college recommends I start with that and I fully agreed since I thought I would have butt-loads of work. I took up 2 classes in mechantronics (stuff to do with AC/DC, circuits, electrical currents, anything to do with electricity or if you want to get a job as your state's power company). The first class was an introduction to college and computers. The second class was learning about AC/DC and power currents. I only had classes on Mondays and Wednesdays every week. This meant that I had a lot of free time on my hands.
So, next semester, this semester I am in now, I decided to take 4 classes and to change my major. I switched over to cyber security, since I decide that I want to program computers and make a career out of it. I picked 4 classes, because with 2, I had so much time on my hands. I couldn't pick 3 because I just couldn't and I wasn't allowed to and I wasn't supposed to. It's the rules.
The directory told me if I was sure about my decision and I told her that I was. Then it got to the point in picking my classes. I had forgotten what I had wanted to take, so my teacher recommended me some classes and assigned me to them. Before he did that, I asked if he could assign me to classes that are face-to-face. He told me that most of his classes are virtual and it was at that moment my decision bit me in my ass.
How was I supposed to know that most of his classes are virtual? I picked 4 classes because I wanted to be busy going to campus. They don't tell you which classes are face-to-face and which classes aren't. But I guess that's only for the cyber security major.
I am horrible at doing virtual work. With my depression, a whole 2 days will go by and I'll be in hot water because I am unable to complete my work by the deadline. Besides, I do so much better face-to-face and physically than virtual.
The four classes, I have two that are regarding labs on our personal laptops and they both have the same ebook that I need to read, I have one class that requires me having a textbook which means physical reading (I am good at that, but when it's a book and not a novel, I am horrible at it. I won't be able to process what I'm reading and it won't stick to me like a novel does), and ny third class is not my teacher's class, but another teacher. I hate her class because it requires me to read both the ebook and textbook. It's basically a review of what I've learned. Going back to the lab classes, I have a smaller laptop (not one of those school Chromebooks), a Windows 11 and what I have to do with those labs, is to do some tech-stuff that'll be in a Windows computer format. I have questions within the labs and I have to find the answers through all of those pixelated words and letters, with my laptop being small (but big enough to know it's a laptop), I have an extremely hard time reading those pixelated answers. My male teacher recommend me going to the local library or come to campus to use the library. I hadn't really had transportation so I have been failing those classes.
On all of my classes, I am failing and I need to take off 2 classes. If I take off two classes, I'll be in Financial Aid Warning. With that Warning, im the fall semester, I'll most definitely have to pass those new classes. If I don't pass the two classes that I am going to keep, I'll be on Financial Aid Suspension, meaning that if I want to enroll, I'll have to pay out of pocket.
The directory person literally scolded me for failing. She even told me that there are tutors in the library that I could have asked them for help. She didn't even let me speak to defend myself. She even told me that I should go to a library to do my labs and she wouldn't even let me defend myself on that. I hadn't had transportation and she knows that I don't have a driver's license nor a vehicle. During the first 3 weeks of class, I even asked my teacher if he could tutor me. He told me to wait next week to see if I have been improving. He didn't even tell me that there are other tutors. I thought the teachers there are the tutors, so that's why I asked. He didn't even recommend me to anybody so I could get help on my work.
But I guess there's nothing to be done. All of this could have been prevented... The directory knew I have a learning disability. Apparently, that's what happens when you don't seem like you have a learning disability...
In the first semester, I had took 2 classes because a directory of the college recommends I start with that and I fully agreed since I thought I would have butt-loads of work. I took up 2 classes in mechantronics (stuff to do with AC/DC, circuits, electrical currents, anything to do with electricity or if you want to get a job as your state's power company). The first class was an introduction to college and computers. The second class was learning about AC/DC and power currents. I only had classes on Mondays and Wednesdays every week. This meant that I had a lot of free time on my hands.
So, next semester, this semester I am in now, I decided to take 4 classes and to change my major. I switched over to cyber security, since I decide that I want to program computers and make a career out of it. I picked 4 classes, because with 2, I had so much time on my hands. I couldn't pick 3 because I just couldn't and I wasn't allowed to and I wasn't supposed to. It's the rules.
The directory told me if I was sure about my decision and I told her that I was. Then it got to the point in picking my classes. I had forgotten what I had wanted to take, so my teacher recommended me some classes and assigned me to them. Before he did that, I asked if he could assign me to classes that are face-to-face. He told me that most of his classes are virtual and it was at that moment my decision bit me in my ass.
How was I supposed to know that most of his classes are virtual? I picked 4 classes because I wanted to be busy going to campus. They don't tell you which classes are face-to-face and which classes aren't. But I guess that's only for the cyber security major.
I am horrible at doing virtual work. With my depression, a whole 2 days will go by and I'll be in hot water because I am unable to complete my work by the deadline. Besides, I do so much better face-to-face and physically than virtual.
The four classes, I have two that are regarding labs on our personal laptops and they both have the same ebook that I need to read, I have one class that requires me having a textbook which means physical reading (I am good at that, but when it's a book and not a novel, I am horrible at it. I won't be able to process what I'm reading and it won't stick to me like a novel does), and ny third class is not my teacher's class, but another teacher. I hate her class because it requires me to read both the ebook and textbook. It's basically a review of what I've learned. Going back to the lab classes, I have a smaller laptop (not one of those school Chromebooks), a Windows 11 and what I have to do with those labs, is to do some tech-stuff that'll be in a Windows computer format. I have questions within the labs and I have to find the answers through all of those pixelated words and letters, with my laptop being small (but big enough to know it's a laptop), I have an extremely hard time reading those pixelated answers. My male teacher recommend me going to the local library or come to campus to use the library. I hadn't really had transportation so I have been failing those classes.
On all of my classes, I am failing and I need to take off 2 classes. If I take off two classes, I'll be in Financial Aid Warning. With that Warning, im the fall semester, I'll most definitely have to pass those new classes. If I don't pass the two classes that I am going to keep, I'll be on Financial Aid Suspension, meaning that if I want to enroll, I'll have to pay out of pocket.
The directory person literally scolded me for failing. She even told me that there are tutors in the library that I could have asked them for help. She didn't even let me speak to defend myself. She even told me that I should go to a library to do my labs and she wouldn't even let me defend myself on that. I hadn't had transportation and she knows that I don't have a driver's license nor a vehicle. During the first 3 weeks of class, I even asked my teacher if he could tutor me. He told me to wait next week to see if I have been improving. He didn't even tell me that there are other tutors. I thought the teachers there are the tutors, so that's why I asked. He didn't even recommend me to anybody so I could get help on my work.
But I guess there's nothing to be done. All of this could have been prevented... The directory knew I have a learning disability. Apparently, that's what happens when you don't seem like you have a learning disability...
