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- $xhtml = array(
- 'title' => 'A new academic advisor',
- 'body' => <<<END
- <img src="/img/CC_BY-SA_4.0/y.st./weblog/2016/11/10.jpg" alt="Hot pink, daisy-looking flowers" class="weblog-header-image" width="811" height="480" />
- <p>
- Current countdowns:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>234 scheme-specific $a[URI]-parsing classes to write and add to <a href="https://git.vola7ileiax4ueow.onion/y.st./include.d/releases">include.d</a></li>
- <li>1 free elective left in my associate degree program</li>
- <li>4 free electives left in my bachelor degree program</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- Topics for essays that I want to write outside of school:
- </p>
- <ul>
- <li>How the $a[GFDL] isn't a free license, and is effectively nonfree even when invariant sections aren't used</li>
- <li>How the telephone number system is screwy</li>
- <li>How postpaid mobile plans are bad for customers</li>
- <li>How connections using "untrusted" $a[TLS] certificates are more trustworthy than connections without any $a[TLS] certificate at all</li>
- <li>The importance of free software</li>
- <li>The importance of free media</li>
- </ul>
- <p>
- I received a letter from my new academic advisor informing me that they would be replacing my former academic advisor in helping me through the university.
- I immediately wrote to them explaining the situation:
- </p>
- <blockquote>
- <p>
- I could actually really use your help at the moment.
- During the course registration period, the school website would only allow me to register for three courses: BUS 1101, POLS 1503, and UNIV 1001.
- Of these three,BUS 1101 is unrelated to my degree program and I was already finishing up the other two.
- </p>
- <p>
- I spoke with [my last advisor] and student services about the issue.
- [My last advisor] said to register for BUS 1101, despite the fact that I don't need it, and we'd clear this up during late registrations.
- </p>
- <p>
- I registered for BUS 1101 as requested, but when late registrations came, I was still unable to register for any actually-needed courses.
- I reached out to [my last advisor] and student services again.
- [My last advisor] told me to stay the course.
- Student services never got back to me.
- I later received a letter from the school, saying that by the end of the week, they'd have registered me for two courses related to my degree program.
- However, the week ended, the term started, and I'm enrolled in one course that I don't need and *zero* courses that I do need.
- </p>
- <p>
- Can you please help me get this cleared up?
- </p>
- </blockquote>
- <p>
- Will this academic advisor know what they're doing any better than my last one? We'll soon see.
- </p>
- <p>
- I had wholly intended to get a lot of work done on my <a href="/en/coursework/BUS1101/Leadership_Entrepreneurship_and_Strategy.xhtml"><span title="Principles of Business Management">BUS 1101</span> essay</a> today, but the letter from my new academic advisor threw me off a bit.
- Being in the wrong course and being in too few courses is stressing me out.
- Being able to talk about the problem with someone new offers potential for renewed hope for a fix.
- Between that and the horrifying election results, I'm a bit worn out emotionally.
- Hopefully, I'll do better tomorrow.
- Also hopefully, I'll get a response from my new academic advisor tomorrow, because I didn't get one today.
- </p>
- <p>
- I did get a little work on my essay done though.
- However, the essay length requirement is a bit vague.
- I'm supposed to write two pages.
- How much is two pages? That entirely depends on the font and the text size.
- Because our submissions are made by pasting our essays into a Web form, there's no concept of page length; this isn't a LibreOffice document, after all.
- In any case, I'm going to aim for about four pages in length, measured in LibreOffice Writer, using a somewhat-small variable-width font and the default font size.
- That should be enough to satisfy anyone that is measuring page length differently than me.
- </p>
- <p>
- Chris Zabriskie has just released another of their ambient music albums, <a href="https://chriszabriskie.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-neptune-flux">Music from Neptune Flux</a>.
- If ambient music is something that you're into, you might want to take a look.
- </p>
- <p>
- My <a href="/a/canary.txt">canary</a> still sings the tune of freedom and transparency.
- </p>
- END
- );
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