Remind me never to go to an advisor who doesn’t want to help her students, especially if they’re not Latin.

Let me start at the beginning. I’m the type of person who didn’t know what to do with my life until recently. Yes, I know it’s late in my undergraduated career to suddenly decide that I want to go to Pharmacy school. But seriously though, not everyone knows that they want to do with their life right away. Some people studied art and suddenly decided to go to Law school. Who knows?

Anyway, so I decided to stay a 5th year here to take classes that I need for Pharmacy school. If everything goes well, that I should be done in a year. Well, I only have financial aid up until Winter 2009 and I want to stay until Spring 2009. So I went to go talk to my advisor today, hoping that she can give me some helpful suggestions on my situation, but what I got from her was NOTHING. She basically told me that if I wanted to stay that extra quarter, I’m going to owe more money since I probably will have mostly loans and no grants. She told me to go to a community college and take the courses I need there. That was her simple solution. Her solution to my problem was the solution that I came up with as well, however, she didn’t count on the fact that it’s not easy to take classes at a community college because everyone is trying to take them. I have priority here, but I don’t have the same priority at another schools.

I told her my story and my concerns and she basically said to me, “The college looks at this as uncareful planning.” It wasn’t uncareful, it was just unknown. I didn’t know that I wanted to pursue a career in Pharmacy. Now that I know what career track I want to be on, I’m planning this, aren’t I? I’m looking at my options and all that, am I not? The only problem is the money. I have the time to take the classes, that’s not the money to pay for them (if I take them here). So instead of trying to understand and give me other options, she just shrug me off as a dumbass who doesn’t know what she’s doing. She made it seem like my problem was so easy and can be solved by just going to a community college, but I don’t see it as simple.

She also said to me that my grades are not good enough and hinted at the fact that maybe I shouldn’t bother with this. However, she doesn’t know anything about Pharmacy schools. She asked me if I have to take the PCAT, but she didn’t know what it was called. Thanks a lot Mrs. SENIOR Academic Advisor for all your wonderful help.

What really pissed me off was that my friend, who is my year, just created his own major this quarter. When I asked her if I can do that because then maybe Financial aid will let me stay that extra quarter. She said to me that it’s too late and I can’t do it and it wouldn’t make a difference. It’s funny because unless you’re Latin, she doesn’t really care about you. My Latin friend came and asked her for money so he can get new glasses and she got him $500.

Anyway, if I want to do this, I have to do it on my own now because she’s a bias, unhelpful bitch and I can’t take advice from someone who doesn’t want to help me because I’m not Latina. My problem isn’t a hard on, I just need to know what to do or at least give me some encouragement and not put downs. And if you don’t know, tell me to go talk to someone else, but just do nothing.