The big relief after the big scare
Nov. 2nd, 2004 04:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsarisYesterday (Monday), I was given one of the scares of my life, at the university, for two hours or so -- when I had gone to make the application for the graduation ceremony and they told me that it didn't seem I had gathered all necessary education points ("didaktikes monades") from classes. Now I definitely remembered calculating that I had fulfilled every prerequisite, but I had to ask for a list of what classes they *had* registered -- and yet that list didn't help me remember much which class it was whose results on me they *hadn't* registered. I went to talk with Cotronis (professor-in-charge of the 2nd direction, which I belong to) with whom I had had to register all classes I had taken the last years. I had to wait more than an hour and a half to talk with him since he'd been examining students, but he couldn't help me much because he had handed over all those papers of his for the time being and wouldn't get them back soon.
So then I just went to www.di.uoa.gr in the list of subjects and tried to figure out from memory which class I had taken whose result had been omitted. There were several classes that rang bells but some of those I had just watched some lessons and later decided to abandon -- or I knew they only reminded me of their equivalent undergraduate classes.
*Finally* figured it out -- it was the "Hypermedia and Multimedia Systems" of Martakos and Hatziefthimiadis that the secretariat hadn't registered -- even though I remembered passing it about 2 and a half years ago and even did a whole VRML exercise in that class. So then I had to go to find Martakos and explain the situation, and Martakos sends me over to Hatziefthimiadis who kept all grades in question. Going down stairs, through some doors and areas of the department I hadn't even visited before (wow -- 7 years in the school undergrad and postgrad, and I don't remember ever going to the NOC building before now.) and seeing Hatziefthimiadis, and he searches his own files and he first searches for my student code (M473) and can't find it, and I'm all cold-sweating and stuff, but he eventually finds my *name*.
Someone had typed out my code as M437 instead of M473, it seems. That's why the secretariat (is that a good translation of "grammateia"?) couldn't find my grade at that class. And somehow I had missed catching the absense of that class in the various papers (analytikes) I'd received since then.
Anyway, all good now, Hatziefthimiadis said he'll send the correction early Tuesday. After that scare, I certainly got one of the biggest *reliefs* of my life. Felt like skipping down the hallways. And did so for a couple steps. Would have looked quite ridiculous, I'm sure, but I hardly cared.
The funny thing is I have no idea who M437 is and whether my own grade has helped him graduate already. :-)
So then I just went to www.di.uoa.gr in the list of subjects and tried to figure out from memory which class I had taken whose result had been omitted. There were several classes that rang bells but some of those I had just watched some lessons and later decided to abandon -- or I knew they only reminded me of their equivalent undergraduate classes.
*Finally* figured it out -- it was the "Hypermedia and Multimedia Systems" of Martakos and Hatziefthimiadis that the secretariat hadn't registered -- even though I remembered passing it about 2 and a half years ago and even did a whole VRML exercise in that class. So then I had to go to find Martakos and explain the situation, and Martakos sends me over to Hatziefthimiadis who kept all grades in question. Going down stairs, through some doors and areas of the department I hadn't even visited before (wow -- 7 years in the school undergrad and postgrad, and I don't remember ever going to the NOC building before now.) and seeing Hatziefthimiadis, and he searches his own files and he first searches for my student code (M473) and can't find it, and I'm all cold-sweating and stuff, but he eventually finds my *name*.
Someone had typed out my code as M437 instead of M473, it seems. That's why the secretariat (is that a good translation of "grammateia"?) couldn't find my grade at that class. And somehow I had missed catching the absense of that class in the various papers (analytikes) I'd received since then.
Anyway, all good now, Hatziefthimiadis said he'll send the correction early Tuesday. After that scare, I certainly got one of the biggest *reliefs* of my life. Felt like skipping down the hallways. And did so for a couple steps. Would have looked quite ridiculous, I'm sure, but I hardly cared.
The funny thing is I have no idea who M437 is and whether my own grade has helped him graduate already. :-)
