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MAY 26th.

A certain someone had to go to Boston for a “program” that she miraculously got accepted into and here’s the part where I find out… this isn’t a program. This is one course. Great conversation, imo. Excuse the language again, but I was told the reason for moving away to Boston was to take this program.. and now, while I’m looking after her cat and he’s broken an XBOX and spilled water on a few hundred dollars worth of cards, I find out… she’s not getting squat from it.

I have yet to give up my apartment and I’m again trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

Convo after the jump…

me: There we go

her@gmail.com: Hi hi baby!

i’ve decided to switch to an audit of that course i was telling you about yesterday – the assignments are all stats-based

and i no good at stats

me: Haha

So what course are you picking up?

her@gmail.com: i’m not gonna pick up one – i’ll do the one for full credit, and then with this one (it’s interesting, and i want to know more about it, but i don’t think I’m at the level yet where i can get a decent grade in it) i’ll try and do a certified audit, so it’ll show up on my transcripts

and all the other courses are very finance oriented in nature, which i am no good at

me: So..

you’re taking one course?

her@gmail.com: yea, but to get a certified audit you have to do things, like the readings and all that and particpate

me: But aren’t there program requirements?

her@gmail.com: there are, but in order to get the certificate i would have to come back next summer and do 2 more courses…

blaaaaaah – i dunno

me: What?

her@gmail.com: maybe i should hold off – i was doing the assignment due tomorrow though and i had no idea what i was talking about

me: so what do you get ..?

from the program

if you just take the one course?

her@gmail.com: you get credits that can transfer to a grad school program and you get to go say yu went to fletcher – plus, apparently there are some mad connetions to be made here at there semi-weekly dinner thingys

me: so hold on..

her@gmail.com: i’m just finding the one course really really interesting and i would love to be able to really get into it

me: you’re not getting anything than a transcript for one course?

her@gmail.com: well, that and the pass/fail for a certified audit

you think i should stick it out with the course i dont like?

me: I was under the impresison that you’d walk away from this with a post grad degree of some variety

it said MA

and you said it was an intensive course

her@gmail.com: it is – very intensive. essentially what they do is take courses they teach for a year and then condense them for this summer program

i wish it was an MA – that would be awesome

me: what the hell.

you’re basically taking a single post graduate course

you get nothing from your months down there

her@gmail.com: kinda yea – it’s a way of testing the waters to see if i want to do grad work

school*

me: that is not how it was presented to me

I was under the impression that you were getting something out of this

her@gmail.com: i’m sorry i was unclear bubby – it’s a summer program

me: So you haven’t even been accepted into their post-grad program

if you door mediocre in this one course

they could say no

her@gmail.com: wha?

me: i dont know

her@gmail.com: oops – sorry, i got confused by “door”

me: do*

her@gmail.com: hehehe thats what i thought

yea… i dont want a horrible grade in it b/c it could hurt my chances later down the line

me: this is so stupid.

her@gmail.com: and it’s not at all what i thought it would be – i mean, “development aid in practice” kinda implies that it will be case studies rather than stats

me: Case studies are statistics

how would you manage efficiencies without statistics

her@gmail.com: i guess i was thinking more in terms of what a case study is in politics and history

i knoww – it was silly of me

me: no fucking shit

you did this on a fucking whim.

does your grandfather know that you don’t get shit out of this?

her@gmail.com: no i didn’t – its a great opportunity, and i love my other course

he knows what it is – i printed the stuff out and showed him the material

me: yah, for the whole program

her@gmail.com: no – for summer school

me: yah, does he know you’d have to do another round of it

to get something worth while

or two more rounds of it

her@gmail.com: yea, i told him

me: But you didn’t fucking tell me

whatever

i’m going to bed

this is stupid

her@gmail.com: baby i told you it was a summer program – i never said it was an MA

me: The program page said MA

but do you get anything at the end of the summer

that says, You’e completed the program

no.. because you haven’t completed the program

you’ve done part of the program

whatever.

So fuckign stupid.

her@gmail.com: i’m sorry i didnt make it clear….

me: yah no shit

You should’ve said, I’m going down there to take a few courses to see if i like grad school

not “i’m taking a summer program”

her@gmail.com: i thought i did

me: i thought it was complete after the summer

her@gmail.com: i thought i explained it as a way to see if i liked grad school, b/c that’s how i saw it

me: but it’s not a summer program..

it’s summer courses for a program

her@gmail.com: i’m sorry i didnt get the wording right – i guess in m head it made sense

me: yah no shit

whatever

i’m going to bed

her@gmail.com: okay

night

xx

me: piss off

night

her@gmail.com: come on kris

me: I’m in no fucking mood

her@gmail.com: okay then

me: This is the dumbest shit i can think of

unless you take more courses, you don’t get shit

this was just a fucking excuse to get to boston

her@gmail.com: no it wasn’t

me: and have your fucking family pay for it

yah, whatever.

her@gmail.com: i’m not some money-grubber

me: whatever. do your homework.

her@gmail.com: what i’m doing now!

night

me: fucking ridiculous

I highly doubt I’ll deal with this pleasantly.

you do what you always fucking do

make sure to be vague enough

to get me to do shit for you

her@gmail.com: how can you say that?? it really makes me mad when you seem to only be able to think of me as some user. it’s not doing any favors for you or me – i dont see you as someone to walk on and use as it suits me and it hurts me that you do

me: whatever

i’ll send your mom an email tomorrow (to pick up the cat)

her@gmail.com: kris, dont be ridiuculous

it was a miscommunication

that;s all – not some active thing on my part to mislead you

me: yah, it’s never an active thing

it’s always just innocent little chloe

that just says enough to not piss me off

and then gets surprised when I figure shit out

and get pissed off

You always say shit like “i didn’t tell you b/c i thought you’d get angry”

whatever

this is a stupid argument

her@gmail.com: yea, i agree

me: I just don’t understand

I asked you a million fucking times were what your plans were after this course and working

and you were like..oohh i don’t know i have no fucking idea.

you could’ve fucking said, WELL I COULD KEEP DOING THAT COURSE

her@gmail.com: i don’t, and that’s still the case

me: but i’ll lead kris to believe that I could come back

her@gmail.com: if i did that, i would come back next summer, but i dont really see that happening, and it’s me being straight with you

me: cause he’ll look after my cat for 5 weeks

so you’re taking the course for 1 or 2 credits

and absolutely no certificate of anything

her@gmail.com: yup

me: That is so stupid

ugh.

bye