I think it’s worth mentioning that Katherine’s bad luck has followed her to Ireland.\u00a0 While taking a chemistry class during the summer a few years ago, the lab component didn’t transfer correctly and her general sciences category is a credit short.\u00a0 For this reason she has to take three classes in Ireland, not two, and she’ll have two extra credits that will count for nothing.<\/p>\n
When we were applying to this school it took the Limerick people well over a month to decide that Katherine was indeed an acceptable candidate.\u00a0 Once accepted she wasn’t given the free pass to the rec center like the other study abroad students and her acceptance letter included the wrong year.\u00a0 Months later, she finally received a letter with the correct dates.<\/p>\n
Once we got here Katherine’s room was infested with spiders, which she hates, and the key to her door is extremely finnicky.\u00a0 I had neither of these problems.<\/p>\n
Today at orientation our group left her behind because she “wasn’t in the system.”\u00a0 Rather than waiting, our tour guide gave Katherine her cell phone number to call once Katherine “was in the system.”\u00a0 Of course, Katherine’s phone doesn’t work because we haven’t put any credit on it.\u00a0 Once Katherine got her ID she had to ask a stranger to call the tour guide and direct her to the main building – which the rest of the group had already passed.\u00a0 By the end of the day Katherine’s email account still isn’t activated and her print quota has yet to be created.<\/p>\n
But wait!\u00a0 We searched the UL schedules tonight for when Katherine’s approved classes were offered.\u00a0 Of my three classes, all are offered and my favorite one meets only on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u00a0 Of Katherine’s eight, the four worst are offered and they meet every day – including Monday morning and Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
It can only get better, right?<\/p>\n
-Mark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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