BA...

BA? No, it's not what you're thinking.

I'll pause here, and say a big THANK YOU for all your kind messages offline about this. It's been a roller coaster ride for me and a learning curve. In all, even though it feels as though I'm drowning...

...I'm doing just fine. :-)

After a myriad of emails with academic support on this. I got to understand that WA (withdrawn academically) is just a grade given with respect to the module not with the entire degree itself. Ope o! 
So as at today, I'm still enrolled at the University, awaiting the notification for the opening of the module so I can re-register (by paying 800 Euros again) and retake the module. In order words, BA...Begin Again.

Honestly, I don' feel happy about this, but I am grateful that I will be given another chance to re-register for the module.

Is there anyone here taking an online degree and have had to retake a module? How did that feel?
I'll really like to know.  Please do share.

Till next week Sunday (God willing)...even when it feels like this...

Odeshi!!!!

WA...

Now this is becoming interesting. Need I say, scary?

I waited a week, hoping this was all a dream, that I would wake up suddenly and hear differently.
No such luck.

So I logged into my student profile on the University website, and noticed WA was stated next to the module I was told I had to retake.

Huh?

WA? I didn't understand what that meant. At the same time, I was scared.
I summoned up whatever courage I had left within me and sent an email to the Tutor for clarifications. His reply, referring me to academic support for further clarifications almost had me literally fall off my seat. Academic support? Na so e don be now? 
Abi na email? I sent the email to academic support. And their response?

'Dear Ada, WA is the grade obtained for this module which means WITHDRAWN ACADEMICALLY'

The hot tears just did an unrestricted free fall on my face. The Office suddenly became hot and the heat lay thick as a towel.
I didn't read the rest of the email. I honestly can't remember if anything else was said after that line above.

Withdrawn Academically???
Wait, does this mean I have been academically withdrawn from the module or the entire degree? 
Ha!
Oh, I read the email just before the close of business at work and a colleague remarked,

'Na wa o. When no be Harvard?'  

Words fail me. How did I get here? How did this happen? All of this is not familiar.
Now this is not about the money anymore as I am more than willing to pay 2,000 Euros sef to get back on the programme.

WA...withdrawn academically?


Till next week Sunday (God willing)...

...while I seek further clarifications on WA

800 Euros!!!!!!

It's been some weeks since I submitted the 1st assignment. I just got caught up with work (it was peak period for me at work), a few work related trips, fell ill a couple of times...the days just went by too quickly and I lost track of time.

One Saturday while I was taking break from anchoring a work event, I got an email from my Tutor in my gmail account. That was pretty strange, as I thought I had deactivated email notifications from the University in my personal email:

'Dear Ada, 
The deadline for Assignment 2 had elapsed weeks ago, and I'm yet to receive yours.
Kindly let me know what your intentions are, and when you hope to send it in.'

That email was sent weeks ago!!!

How I missed that still beats me as I type this.
Anyway, I quickly sent a reply to the Tutor letting him know I'll send in the assignment in the next of couple of days. Before the work event ended, I received a rather prompt reply from my Tutor explaining that he sent that email to me weeks ago, and the extra time allotted had also elapsed, as a result, I'll have to take the course all over again, as the first assignment is 50% of the final grade and I need a total of 60% to move to the next module.

In other words, I will carry over the module - Organisations and HR Management.

WHAT?????

 Instantly, my life became a turgid and suspended film. Everything thickened.

A module I struggled with?
Nights reading and developing a headache while at it???? All gone??? I have to do it all over again???
I think my worry isn't about taking the module again (I can live with that)...it's the cost!
So you know, I pay per module and it is deducted from my University bank account. The cost of this module is 800 EUROS!!!! Oh no!!!!! Not even now that foreign currencies are doing jangolova on the foreign exchange rate table. Let me bring this home (Just incase you think I'm shouting over N20K), I mean I have to pay N180,000.00 (One Hundred and Eighty Thousand Naira) again ooooo! My own don done! Oh dear, how did this happen? What will I tell Mr Hubby? There goes my Christmas gift!!   :-(

My colleagues at the event knew something wasn't right with me. I told them what happened. And one of them said, 'what if you were pregnant and had a baby? Abeg send them an email telling them you just had a baby joor'
But that would be a lie na. I can't lie.

I got home and sent an email to academic support, explaining how I got super busy at work and fell ill a couple of times, pleading not to have to pay another 800 Euros.

Sunday was soooo slowwww. Slowed by sadness. I was frightened by the endless stretch of day that lay ahead.

And they replied on Monday morning. All my story didn't work. I need to take the module all over again and pay another 800 Euros. 

Till next week Sunday (God willing)...God abeg, help me survive this week.

She knows it all.

I did say I was going to talk about this.

Ever had that 'oversabi' classmate way back in Secondary school or at the University who just knew it all?
Welcome to my world! I'm stuck with one. :-(

To ensure we're (online students) actively engaged in the course, we're encouraged to create forum posts to discuss topics relating to the course content, assignments etc.
There is this Kenyan babe...she can create discussion topics ehn!!!! Choi! From HR practices in Kenya to the colour of the Sun! The annoying part is not the creation of posts and the infuriating notifications I receive when I log into the University website, thinking it's a message from my Tutor, it is the fact that she creates discussion topics, asking questions she already knows the answers to. Who does that? How do I know that? Na she dey ask the question, na still she dey answer am...how actively she pursued airless discussions.

To what end, I have continuously asked myself. To prove to the Tutor that she is on top of the course? (so you know, there are no extra marks for this) Or to prove to us (her fellow classmates) that we're just a bunch of God knows what. Trust my fellow classmates (Africans...typical), we have just left her to be creating discussion topics and discussing them all by herself.

On one occasion, she created a topic about the emergence of bitcoin in an economy (a sub-topic on the course content that till date, I still don't understand what that has got to do with this HR module).
I desperately needed someone to talk about that as I have, sort of, indirectly asked the Tutor about this. I decided to reply the discussion thread by asking her how this relates to the course content. Her response? Not the answer I expected. Not an answer at all.

She was aggressively friendly...glad someone dropped by.
She talked about everything else but my question...not on the discussion thread by the way (for obvious reasons), but via a private chat message to me. She probably didn't want the Tutor and anyone else to know, as a first, that she didn't know the answer to that question.

Hmm...till next week Sunday (God willing)...like everything else, this too shall pass.