more finnish university adventures
30 Aug 2005 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneyesterday i sat through an hour-long lecture in swedish about the language-related graduation requirements for native speakers of swedish and finnish. when i went up after the talk the nervous little man who had given it told me that i can get my requirements (which apparently he was not at liberty to disclose) from the language center's secretary by visiting her monday through thursday between the hours of nine and twelve. i accordingly hied myself thence today at ten, and after getting lost in the building i went to every single day of the year last year, found the woman.
i suavely broached the subject of pre-registration for the finnish course i want to take this semester in embarrassingly stumbly swedish. ("hej! jag är int--heller--varken svensk- heller--eller finsk språkigande--och jag vill ta kursen i finska.") she pre-registered me in the computer and everything was good, and then i brought up--same painfully bad swedish--the "language study plan" concept and, as an example, one of the required courses for the swedish- and finnish-speakers.
she seemed to think i was a little slow--she told me i didn't have to take that one since i am foreign three times. of course what i really wanted to know was what i do have to take, and she was taken aback to finally discover that i had never heard so much as a whisper of this mythical "language study plan", which apparently i'm supposed to have already. so she looked me up in the computer.
do you know why i hadn't heard of the language study plan?
the university system has me listed with language of high school tuition--swedish. the language of this university's tuition, but definitely not the language of my high school tuition.
i... i... what?
jesus fucking christ. this university's bureaucracy is the most convoluted, serpentine, unhelpful, inconsistent, sluggish excuse for a bureaucracy i have ever beheld. luckily, the secretary woman said she would take care of it. grrr.
i suavely broached the subject of pre-registration for the finnish course i want to take this semester in embarrassingly stumbly swedish. ("hej! jag är int--heller--varken svensk- heller--eller finsk språkigande--och jag vill ta kursen i finska.") she pre-registered me in the computer and everything was good, and then i brought up--same painfully bad swedish--the "language study plan" concept and, as an example, one of the required courses for the swedish- and finnish-speakers.
she seemed to think i was a little slow--she told me i didn't have to take that one since i am foreign three times. of course what i really wanted to know was what i do have to take, and she was taken aback to finally discover that i had never heard so much as a whisper of this mythical "language study plan", which apparently i'm supposed to have already. so she looked me up in the computer.
do you know why i hadn't heard of the language study plan?
the university system has me listed with language of high school tuition--swedish. the language of this university's tuition, but definitely not the language of my high school tuition.
i... i... what?
jesus fucking christ. this university's bureaucracy is the most convoluted, serpentine, unhelpful, inconsistent, sluggish excuse for a bureaucracy i have ever beheld. luckily, the secretary woman said she would take care of it. grrr.
