🧵 University fucking me over

Anonymous at Fri, 1 Nov 2024 20:29:14 UTC No. 16458815

I'm a senior MCB student. Since last Spring I've been trying to get into an MCB lab course, you need one to graduate. I've completed all my major requirements and my gen eds but can't graduate until I have that course. Immediately when my registration portal opened I tried to get into an MCB lab course. There was only 2 or 3 of them being offered and they all required permission numbers. I emailed all the professors and for one reason or another they said I couldn't take it because I'm not an honors student or because the waitlist is full and they already have a waitlist full of MCB seniors in the same position as me.

I got accepted to a clinical research internship for the Spring. There are courses in the lab requirement called "Undergraduate research" and "Clinical research". The clinical research class involves going to Hartford Hospital and collecting data, pretty much the exact same thing I'm doing for my internship. However, I was told I can't get credit for it because I need to take MCB 3100 as a pre-req. And of course, MCB 3100 is an honors only course.

So, UConn wants me to delay my graduation and push back all my plans by an entire year, even though I'm only 1 course off from graduation just so I can take 1 course that they seldom offer. Is this not the biggest scam ever? What can I do in this situation? It seems my only other option at this point is to come up with an individualized major. I've worked so hard for MCB all this time and it seems ridiculous that I can't graduate with my major because UConn neglects MCB students by not offering the courses their students require to graduate.