On March 7th I got an e-mail saying there will be a hold placed on my account which will prevent me from registering for Fall 2012 classes if I don't take the Upper Division Writing Profinicy Exam (UDWPE). That same day I got an apology saying that there was a glitch in the system and to ignore the previous e-mail. I log into my student account on the 13th and notice I have a hold on my registration. I'm PISSED! They haven't given out registration dates yet, but I'm not trying to get left behind!

I was looking at the semester schedule and noticed that a registration appointment date was posted for March 19th and I thought that was for the Fall 2012. I was stressed out and I was close to tears when I realized it was for a college that is connected with the school. After finding that out I'm not as stressed, but I'm still feeling it.

I intend to pay the $20 on Monday so I can take the test on 4/28/12 and get it over with. I'm not trying to have ANY kind of drama.

I don't like it when people give me hints or tips if I don't ask for them. What I really don't like is when people feel the need to critique me when I'm not doing anything wrong. Like today at dinner, I coughed and I had my hand in front of my mouth, but it wasn't fully covering it and my dad said, when you cough you're supposed to turn your head away from people. I told him I was doing that, but I just got tired of doing it and I wasn't really coughing, it was more like blowing out air and clearing my throat. He does it too and I don't complain.

I just have a problem with being told and I need to get over that. I've told myself that if I don't want someone to correct me I need to do things the right way the first time. It's kind of hard for me to get used to, but I'm glad I'm realizing my mistakes now and taking the time to fix them before I go into the working world, because I need to be prepared to deal with the sharks.

I have a project due for my journalism class and my teacher wants us to get enough information from a police department to write a story. I could write about a crime report or any new programs or something the officers want to warn the community about. I called up my school's police department, hoping to make a meeting with an officer to talk about any recent crimes that were reported or any complaints, but I wasn't able to do that. I had to leave a message for the head of the department.

Today, the head of the department calls me back and I ask her if I could have any information on any crimes that were reported recently or any complaints and she starts off by saying there is a difference between a crime and a complaint. I know that. She said, I need specifics or we're going to have to put our meeting on hold. Basically she was saying, if you don't know what to ask me, then don't come in. She kept directing me to the website, but I told her I went there and the crime reports didn't give me enough information to write a story. She said I need more information, so I brought up a recent report about someone having marijuana. I told her I was looking for specifics and I gave her some examples; I said, maybe like the officer the crime was reported to, the time. She said that information was available on the website and it was, but those were just examples. She knew what I wanted to ask, I wanted the names of the people involved.

The fact that she suggested I didn't have my shit together made me upset. I told her I will take any information on any recent crime that was reported and to me, that was enough information. She could have pulled up something that happened last week or even last month. I didn't want to use a story that was a year old, but it looks like I'm going to have too.

I will admit, I didn't bring up the marijuana thing until later in the conversation, but the fact that I said, recent crimes or reports gave her enough to go off of. Maybe she felt like she was trying to do the assignment for me. I don't know, but that's not how I thought I came off.