The Little Uncertainties

I never seem to get back to editing my posts as I would like. I leave them for later, but when later comes I'm too busy to edit them, I have forgotten entirely, or I have something else on my mind.

Right now the other thing on my mind is the transfer of grades from Uni Bremen to my home university. Not having the grades transferred and complete has cost me another year of school to make up for the credits. There has been a great lack of communication between myself and the professors at Uni Bremen. The short version? Unlike colleges in the US, where the teachers submit their grades to the Registrar Office, whose job it is to keep track of academic progress, in Germany the collection of grades resides solely with the students. They must collect the "Schein" at the end of the semester, which confers credit upon the completion of a course. Funnily enough, even though I passed my classes (as far as I know) and I know what grade I got, most of my professors asked me to come back later to collect the "Schein." And, because my schedule for being in a foreign land, and Germany's strange semester schedules/professor schedules, I never met back up with the professors to "collect the Schein."

Now, it's a year later, and when the professors haven't been unresponsive to my emails, they've been blank messages sent back (1 reply). My sponsor and I think we have found a workaround, but... at this point, I'm a little scared. I'm fearful that the paperwork we've drawn up will be rejected by the professors if it's submitted in the wrong manner. Then what will I do? I have a meeting tomorrow with my sponsor, to go over the final parts, but... it's a pain, and my stomach is turning somersaults. I have until the end of the week to get everything cleared and apply for graduation. The entire next stage of my life, my depends on this week, everything for the last 10 years comes down to the paperwork I'm so unsure about. It's amazing how much it's making me sick to my stomach. Normally I don't let things bother me enough to actually affect me physically, but now... I can't seem to help myself.

Go away fish, go far away... especially you big ones... swim far, far away....