AAARGH WHY?
Apr. 4th, 2008 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beandelphikiWhy does school suck so much?! Why is it so difficult to go to one?
I finally got an electronic request for my high school transcripts sent off to Alberta Ed. What a pain the ass!
In order to request transcripts, I need to register for an "Alberta Secure Login ID" or something like that. (Which didn't save properly or something the first time, so I ended up doing it twice.) As part of that TOS-blah-blah you have to agree to, they have something about keeping your own information up-to-date. Haha, I hope they don't actually expect to hold people to that. Like ANYONE is going to remember to update their "Alberta Secure Login ID" information when you only need that ID to, oh, order transcripts!
And I have to keep entering my legal gender for EVERYTHING! If it's only for "statistical purposes," why is my gender attached to my goddamned name for everything, and why don't I have the option not to enter it? FUCK YOU ALBERTA ED!
And in order to create the aforementioned ID, not only do they require your gender, but they REQUIRE you to enter the answers to six of their own security questions. As in, you don't get to choose the questions you answer. One of the questions is "mother's maiden name" (!). Uh, what if you don't have a mother?
I got a bit creative with some of the stupider questions, e.g.
What is the location of your dream vacation?
Gallifrey
Although, as my mother said, it's a bit crispy there these days.
Now, off to SAIT and MRC. Hopefully I can make it to both places and back to Chinook in time for work. Hopefully they'll mail my bloody transcripts in time! Although really, considering that my previous college courses have been for either a) theatre or b) journalism, only my high school transcripts REALLY matter in applying to Biological Sciences.
Maybe I shouldn't complain. At least I don't live in Germany. *eyes friendslist*
I finally got an electronic request for my high school transcripts sent off to Alberta Ed. What a pain the ass!
In order to request transcripts, I need to register for an "Alberta Secure Login ID" or something like that. (Which didn't save properly or something the first time, so I ended up doing it twice.) As part of that TOS-blah-blah you have to agree to, they have something about keeping your own information up-to-date. Haha, I hope they don't actually expect to hold people to that. Like ANYONE is going to remember to update their "Alberta Secure Login ID" information when you only need that ID to, oh, order transcripts!
And I have to keep entering my legal gender for EVERYTHING! If it's only for "statistical purposes," why is my gender attached to my goddamned name for everything, and why don't I have the option not to enter it? FUCK YOU ALBERTA ED!
And in order to create the aforementioned ID, not only do they require your gender, but they REQUIRE you to enter the answers to six of their own security questions. As in, you don't get to choose the questions you answer. One of the questions is "mother's maiden name" (!). Uh, what if you don't have a mother?
I got a bit creative with some of the stupider questions, e.g.
What is the location of your dream vacation?
Gallifrey
Although, as my mother said, it's a bit crispy there these days.
Now, off to SAIT and MRC. Hopefully I can make it to both places and back to Chinook in time for work. Hopefully they'll mail my bloody transcripts in time! Although really, considering that my previous college courses have been for either a) theatre or b) journalism, only my high school transcripts REALLY matter in applying to Biological Sciences.
Maybe I shouldn't complain. At least I don't live in Germany. *eyes friendslist*
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Date: 2008-04-04 09:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-05 06:29 pm (UTC)I'd love to see the whole world, really, but there's nowhere in particular I'd like to go. So that question really stumped me at first for something I'd remember.