I guess I was just basing advising on my previous experience in college. I went to a small private college (Hiram College) and the academic advisors were actually profs. in your major's department.
My major was Pre-Law/History so my advisor showed me my pre-reqs and the electives I should take each quarter. He explained it that this was subject to my desires, but that a majority of students with my major found this the most successful way to go. Of course it didn't take out the variables like not going to class, gambling my way out.
Smooth: that is cool about your wife and would like to open an e-mail corresponace with you/her about the MoC and the shared goals we seem to have in common. Drop me an IM and let me know.
Warrrrreagllll: It's cool that you are an advisor. Hope you don't truly lose faith and hope because some of us do appreciate what you have to say (so long as you are up to date with what is needed).
Personally, I want an advisor to be there for me to tell me if I need a class I might have missed or if some new rule or reg. has come up in my field and I need to take a class that I don't have to but will help me in the long run.
Finally, I wish to thank everyone for their responses. I appreciate the fact that a majority of you read my full rant and gave your honest advice without ripping into me and treating me like some scumbag or lower than you creature, because you would handle it better.
Sometimes, a person may rant just to get out some negativity and the rant may not have anything to do with the problem or the rant is just a transferrence of a bigger problem in that person's life. It helps to rant and helps sometimes to have people just listen and offer a reply to the rant, because perhaps sometimes the answer to the bigger problem lies in an answer given to the less important rant.
Hope you can follow that, and understand, for those who can.... a big thank you.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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