Hot Like Ebola!!!: Paying For Sins Forgotten

When I was 14, I learned that you could take a course at community college, even if you were still in high school. I was so excited about this that I quickly signed up for a sociology course at the college nearest my school. I loved the course and had a steady B+ average. Until the last two weeks, that is. During that time, my mom was diagnosed with HepC and also became very ill with arthritis. I was terrified with what was going on with my mom, and completely forgot about my college class. I stopped showing up to classes, and did not turn in my final presentation, a news journal I had been working on through the semester. I requested to recieve an "incomplete" for the course, to be made up at a different time, but was denied. I wound up with a D, and promptly put it out of my mind.

Senior year of high school, I took 4 courses throught a program my high school offered where I could get college credit for classes I took at the high school. I recieved an A in all four of those classes, and Whitworth accepted them as "transfer equivalency" courses: 2 psych classes, and 2 English classes. Incidentally, these were credited to the same college where the long-forgotten sociology disaster had occured.

College flew by, and soon I was turning in vet school apps. Last friday, one of the colleges (my 1st choice), told me my app was complete because I had not included my community college transcript. None of the other colleges had asked for this, since the credits taken through the college did not fulfill any requirements, and since it had been so few credits. They simply counted them as AP credits filled during high school.

But not this one school. They really wanted transcripts for those 12 100 level credits. So I went to the community college's website and looked at my transcript to see if I could electronically request them to send one to the vet school.

When I looked at my transcript, my heart sank.

There, for all the world to see, was that long-forgotten D from 8 years ago.

Sad. Of all the things I didn't want vet school to see...

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 10:54 PM
id="comments">4 Comments:

Is there no compassion in vet school? Silly question, huh? I'm sorry, Jeni. Something will work out - I'm sure of it.

Mariquita, at 5:08 PM

I can SO relate to this. My 1st semester of college, I was (unbeknownst to me) suffering from HepC. It comes and goes and I was barely able to move. I kept up with my classes, but I had a seminar, and I couldn't attend the small group end of semester event at the prof's house(which was evidently a BIG deal)and I got a friend to turn in my paper and tell her i was sick. She got mad as hell and gave me a D.

I never went and talked to her about it, because I just felt so bad, and then the semester was over and i just wanted to forget about it.

That D haunted me for ages-- kept me out of honor societies and such. I read that the prof died last year, and a part of me was glad that at least she was in heaven and knew why I had come across as such a dumb butt.

i say you write a note of explanation just like what you said in your post. I bet a lot of people have had that experience.

Best-- Anne