{"id":132,"date":"2004-04-29T23:49:01","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T06:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/29\/living_a_lie.html"},"modified":"2011-04-22T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T23:46:26","slug":"living_a_lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/29\/living_a_lie.html","title":{"rendered":"Living a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost two years without it, I decided on Monday that it might be a good idea to finally get my diploma from my MLS program at Simmons<\/a>. When I graduated in the summer of 2002, I remember being told I could pick it up, or pay ten bucks to have it mailed to me. I thought it was kind of cheap of them to demand another $10 just to mail me the diploma; it seems like the least they could do to just send it to you. So I thought I’d go over and pick it up sometime, which I never got around to doing.<\/p>\n

So imagine my surprise when I call the registrar two days ago, and I’m told that in fact, I haven’t graduated. Now, I’ve moved on, gotten a job based in part on the fact that I have an MLS, and have boxed up that part of my life, so to speak. Simmons thinks otherwise, apparently. I spoke with a helpful person in the GSLIS department who looked at my records and told me that for some reason some credits for history classes didn’t get transferred over after I dropped out of the dual degree program<\/A>, so I was short eight credits and had never graduated. What they thought I was doing, having stopped taking classes and having never returned to campus, I don’t know, but they never asked, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I was told that after a meeting of the deans, it was determined that I should in fact graduate on May 16, and that I had a half-hour to fill out and return a “petition to graduate” before the deadline. I feel like I’m probably that only student to ever take two years off before graduating after<\/I> having finished every class. I’ll be sure to put that on my résumé.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After almost two years without it, I decided on Monday that it might be a good idea to finally get my diploma from my MLS program at Simmons. When I graduated in the summer of 2002, I remember being told I could pick it up, or pay ten bucks to have it mailed to me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}