Page4 ~~ The Lion’s Eye April 10, 2006 Eye On Campus Beating The System: Late Adds and Independent Studies lear How to Use Penn Stade s Often Overlooked | hlhites of To Rather Yar Education | willing to By Dr . ANDREW A. W A LITER D.D. allow them aawld7@psu.edu entry . Next, the student Ever get bogged down in a samester with too must dbtain mary hard classes. But if you were to late drop a regular any, you'd lose your full-time status? Have you drop/add : : Mi : ever been one those students who in the mid- form from As . : : semester point and found out you need an te Photo by Dr Andrew Walter DD. extra couple credits to Registration of fice (105 Main) and graduate or accamplish [ER | fill out the necessary information sare other goal such as (including having their advisor's and changing assignment to professor's signatures). This is then University Park? handed back to the Registration Conversely, maybe you're a student who wishes to remain here all four years and wents to do everything possi - ble to accarplish this gal. Well, even if you fessor's own discretion as to whether or not the student will be allowed aren't and just are sameone locking for a few into a course. more classes or-ogeortunities not of fered on Branch warns, " [Professors] they may not the regular schedule of courses or through e- want to add a student into the class after Lin, this is the article for you. drop/add because it may already ke full, or, The answer to these problems and more can they may have other reasons." If a professor be solved by one or both of the resources often denies a student entry into a class, that student left untapped by the everyday Pan State stu- may then research to see if another professor is dent, late add and the kp study pro - tf ferirg the same class'or if there is another gram. professor qualified to teach Late add allows students to add courses to their schedules after the deadline for drop/add. At first, this seams trivial, but the goplications are far greater. Diana Branch, Registration Stef f Assistant, explains " [Unlike late drop, ] you can actually late add a course wp util the last day of class, [although] I don't encourage it." What this means, is that if at ary point during the sarester students need to boost the rum ber of credits they are taking, examples will be explained in detail later). The student Students who are attempting to avoid the part-time status should also double-check their late drop credit availability, & ally 16 late drop credits semester cbviously means a they have the means. This gare of tortoise and the cares particularly in handy for students who hare in terms of "catch-up; " make certain the either realize that they need certain other hare wins. One other thing students should be courses as reguirarents that they haven't aware of is that there is a $6 dare for all scheduled, or students who can't af fad to fall transactions made after the drop/add period, so into the realm of a part-time student. one must pay of £ that crippling kalance sare - ; In order to late add a course, students must time between the time of the transaction and took For The Paw and eooive A 10% Divot first find a course they wish to take. They then the next samester's tuition. At Certain Businesses Near The Campus! must speak with the professor to see if s/he is Continued Page 7, see “Beat The System” Tirege Courtesy of Sean Nidwols 67Bottles of Spock: A Comicby Daniel Delaney | really hate it , Irs en the artist when Yi break Fi) ER "they know the fourth wall. fe ow y What's wk Yeah that sounds pretty lame.
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