Typical Frustrations with Studying Abroad

This is definitely more of a venting post. Mostly because I have less than 30 days before I leave, I have been diligently working on making sure I am on top of everything before I go and it seems that I keep hitting roadblock after roadblock of problems of small details.

Yupp. Basically.

1) Classes Abroad. Probably the biggest and most consistent problem is that classes keep getting changed and my schedule keeps changing. When I originally applied, Union makes you apply so far ahead in advance to when you actually leave, you have no idea what classes you are taking but you need to make an educated guess of what you might be taking and get credit approval from the Department chair and the Dean of Studies. After I finally submitted my course requests in September, I had to get another course approved and go through the Union credit process again because some of the courses originally submitted were not going to be offered.

A few days ago, I actually had to register/enroll in the classes and another class I had gotten approved is no longer going to be offered and I have to get another one approved (go through the process all over again). This is even more difficult now that we are no longer at Union. What is even more frustrating is that there are even back-up classes that had been submitted as well so that this problem doesn't keep happening but the back-up class now requires a pre-requisite of a class that I will be taking in Australia and they don't let you take the pre-req at the same time.

2) Tech problems. For some reason technology hates me. Anytime a really important email comes in, it gets thrown in spam or when we get our log-ins to register for classes, mine out of 100 students is the only one that doesn't work and we have to call IT in Australia to get if fixed blah blah blah. Then I get locked out of some classes because I had to register later than everyone else.

3. Money abroad. I discovered that my credit card won't work in Australia and that I need to get a new one. What is nice about my current card is that there are no international fees, so I won't get charged an additional 3-4% every time I use it in Australia. However, applying for credit cards (without your parent's name on it) is REALLY difficult and you certainly aren't going to get a card with either a good limit or no international fees. #firstworldproblems I hate money.

I recognize that all of these frustrations I have are out of my control and there is nothing I can really do about it except take it one day at a time and do my best to stay organized and on top of everything.

LESS THAN 30 DAYS AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Also I hate packing and what it does to my room.