Tuesday, March 3, 2009
CA Budget Crisis
I visited my counselor (or a counselor rather) today to evaluate my transcripts and to discuss my anticipated transfer to UCSD. [There's a Transfer Admissions Guarantee (TAG) program here at school which is basically a contract between PCC and certain UCs that guarantees students general admissions as long as they meet a certain criteria (GPA, units...).] After reviewing my transcripts and current schedule, the counselor said I was good to go as far as transfer preparation goes. Then came the bad news...well...I'll call it the "potentially bad news" for now...She phoned the transfer center and it turns out UCSD might not accept winter quarter students if the state budget crisis isn't appropriately resolved in terms of public education funding. That means I'll have to apply for fall and wait a whole flippin' year to attend a four year university! WHY didn't you take that block grant when the federal government put it on the table, ARNOLD? ?POR QUE NO?