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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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26 August 2002 - 11:20 pm
I'm not sure if I mentioned this here already, but last spring I had a friend who got some dates confused and missed his graduation. It was a pretty funny story involving showing up a week late in cap & gown, but not nearly as funny as this.
As a consequence of missing the graduation ceremony, my friend didn't pick up his degree. He spoke to a secretary who told him that all the uncollected degrees would be mailed out to the degree recipients, and he didn't really think about it again.
Well, the summer progressed, and my friend searched for, and then found,a job. Most of the summer slipped by, and in mid-August, some what out of the blue, he began to wonder what had happened to his degree. He hadn't received it. His parents hadn't seen it. His brother denied doing anything to it. So my friend called someone at his university to find out when they were going to mail out the degrees. During the course of this phone call, he learned two essential facts. 1) The degrees had been mailed out in mid-June. 2) He hadn't received his because he hadn't actually graduated.
That's right folks, despite buying a cap and gown, putting Class of 2002 on his resume, and telling his employer that he had a degree, he didn't really have a degree. He was one class shy of a degree. One class and an exit exam shy of a degree, actually. The claims to have taken the exit exam (the university disagrees with him on this point), but doesn't argue the missing class.
As things currently stand, the situation remains unresolved. The university seems willing to work with him on this, perhaps realizing that they, in the guise of his advisor, failed to tell him he was missing a class. I'll update you when I hear more about the situation.
Posted by on 26 August 2002 at 11:20 PM
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