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RU Screw Update: I was able to substitute one of my classes, so all of my requirements will be fulfilled. Hence, I am back on the track to graduating this May! Take that, RU Screw! (at the same time, I'm watchin my back and keeping my nose clean...this all won't be over untill that degree in in my hands) That's all for now...I got homework to do. :0)
Ladies and gentlemen, submitted for your observation is a tale of treachery and disloyalty. A case of what happens when sub-standard funding and big business politics affect the tax and tuition paying people of this world. We shall present to you a current and most heinous example of the RU Screw. (cue ominous music, like O Fortuna from "Carmina Burana") Amber was a typical college student. Like many freshman, she took her time getting accustomed to college life, and her grades suffered in the process. But she worked hard after that, and had lined herself up to graduate on time. Along the way, she had experienced screws, but she perservered. They were tiny screws...a class or two canceled, waiting till senior year to take Modern Dance, an evil fish killing roomate, a super-Asian roomate who made Amber feel like an exchange student in her own room, steadily increasing tuition, sharply increasing parking fees, and so on. They were uncomfortable screws, but they were hand