March 2022
I was just 1 achievement away from getting 100%, and then they added even more achievements! The quest to perfecting Cozy Grove continues . . .
I didn’t play much else this month. I bought Lemon Cake, but then it turned out to be extremely repetitive and grindy, and not even the cute graphics was saving it, so I refunded it around the 2 hour mark. Since there is not much to say about my gaming, I will share a story from last month instead. So, I recently got accepted to a master’s program, and they require 3 documents before I can register as a student: certificate of graduation, transcript of records from my home university (1), & the transcript of records from the university where I spent a semester as an exchange student 2 years ago. Sounds easy, right? Haha . . . ha.
The catch is that the university (2) requires these to be “official copies”, which means hardcopy in a signed & sealed envelope. I contacted the university (3) where I went as an exchange student, but they sent me a PDF copy. When I asked for the “official copy”, they told me that it’s university 1’s responsibility to send it. I emailed back and forth with university 2 and 3 to hopefully get uni 3 to send a copy, but they did not change their position on this. So I contacted university 1’s International Office, but they also sent me a PDF copy. Then I contacted my department’s Senior Advisor, who told me to contact the Exchange Program Coordinator, who told me to contact the Registrar’s Office for the official transcript. R. O. told me they do not have transcripts for exchange programs, and told me to contact my department (which I had already done). Then Exchange Coordinator told me to contact the International Office, who then told me . . . they do not have the hardcopy of my transcript in my files. Ha . . .
But the story has a good ending! University 2 accepted a PDF copy to be emailed to them after this entire ordeal, thank god.
TL;DR Bureaucracy is hell and it took me a more than a week & 20+ emails to get a transcript mailed.
Congrats on getting into your master’s program! I’m a few years removed from my college experiences (I went to four different universities, so there was a fair amount of bureaucracy to wade through…), but it seems that the “official paper copy” policies should be a thing of the past. Have these people not heard about digitally signed pdfs?
I’m happy I got my degree but I hated my college, they would never answer their phones so I’ve had to go up there on occasion to ask a questions, and sometimes they were never there despite it being their office hours. My emails never got responded to, or there was a week delay. I ended up stopping once I got my first degree because it was such a hassle. I’m happy they accepted your PDF and it was a good ending!
Good luck on getting that last achi-…. good luck on those last few achievements! FIGHT!