I am emotionally and physically drained. The departments keep changing the timetable so I started the term with every class during its allotted time, nothing overlapped and all was well. Now, I have three classes at the same time and one of which is a lab and the other two are lecture I can't miss. They say they are changing it again but I think no matter what I will have a clash. I asked my professor if I should drop the class and try and find something different and he said the class will discuss it on Monday. The only problem is this Friday is that last day to drop the class and unless I drop it I am stuck with it and I could end up doing quite terribly because I will be missing the first 2/3's of every single lab.
Last night all of the international undergraduate students were called to a meeting by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) for them to voice complaints about having undergrads in their residences. First they went on and on about how loud, disrespectful, and awful we were. How they knew we would be this way and that they never wanted us there and they we had no right to be living there and that to sum it all up they hate us without knowing us. After these rants I was almost to the point of tears. I was angry, upset, and now understood why I could not call my residence my home. That is because we as undergrads are simply guests, we have no place on the campus. The woman who made the majority of the accusations is a white and from Canada. She is probably in her mid 20s and has already made blatant accusations about members of my program that were not true as the girl she said she saw smoking pot was off campus at resturaunt at the time she was supposedly toaking up. After she finished I did something I do not and will never regret. I told her how I felt about her and the GSA and their discrimination against undergrad who were placed in the Grad Village by the University of Botswana due to our safety as foreigners. We did not ask to be put there but we were, and we were not prepared to be hated before we even arrived. She set a double standard asking for respect when she offers none. I have stood by and watched her ignore a simple question that would have only required a two word answer, walking by and refusing to make eye contact with the undergrad who asked it. She is a woman I house no respect for. She complains about noise yet grad students in my suite play their TV's and Gospel music at full volume during all hours of the day where as the myself and the undergrads I live with tiptoe around and try to be invisible because there are some roommates who have yet to share a pleasant word with us. They GSA said they want to welcome us to the university they just want us to play by the rules, and the undergrads reply unanimous, then why not stop the discrimination and the double standards. Be courteous and respectful because that is how you gain both.
Last night all of the international undergraduate students were called to a meeting by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) for them to voice complaints about having undergrads in their residences. First they went on and on about how loud, disrespectful, and awful we were. How they knew we would be this way and that they never wanted us there and they we had no right to be living there and that to sum it all up they hate us without knowing us. After these rants I was almost to the point of tears. I was angry, upset, and now understood why I could not call my residence my home. That is because we as undergrads are simply guests, we have no place on the campus. The woman who made the majority of the accusations is a white and from Canada. She is probably in her mid 20s and has already made blatant accusations about members of my program that were not true as the girl she said she saw smoking pot was off campus at resturaunt at the time she was supposedly toaking up. After she finished I did something I do not and will never regret. I told her how I felt about her and the GSA and their discrimination against undergrad who were placed in the Grad Village by the University of Botswana due to our safety as foreigners. We did not ask to be put there but we were, and we were not prepared to be hated before we even arrived. She set a double standard asking for respect when she offers none. I have stood by and watched her ignore a simple question that would have only required a two word answer, walking by and refusing to make eye contact with the undergrad who asked it. She is a woman I house no respect for. She complains about noise yet grad students in my suite play their TV's and Gospel music at full volume during all hours of the day where as the myself and the undergrads I live with tiptoe around and try to be invisible because there are some roommates who have yet to share a pleasant word with us. They GSA said they want to welcome us to the university they just want us to play by the rules, and the undergrads reply unanimous, then why not stop the discrimination and the double standards. Be courteous and respectful because that is how you gain both.
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