Freak-outs are okay, right?

Today I had the pleasure of running around like a chicken with my head cut off. :O

Why, you ask? Let's just say that my totally whacked out sleeping schedule is creating mayhem in my daily life.

I thought that my Pre-Departure Orientation Packet (PDOP) was due on Tuesday, May 6th. I realized last night, long about 11:45 p.m. that it was due on Monday, May 5th (TODAY)!!!

Normally, I don't freak out about these things, but I realized that I had NOT met with Allison Palmer (my favorite art history professor and mentor http://art.ou.edu/people/palmer-a.html) regarding my course equivalencies. Schedules for everyone are tight this week, as this is Finals Week. Like a trooper, she agreed to meet with me on the fly today and all is well.

Thankfully, being a Graduate student ended up being a major plus for me with the PDOP. If you are a Graduate student, the Graduate College doesn't sign off on your classes until your transcript is sent over from the exchange institution. Thus, the course equivalencies I selected can be changed in the future and I DID NOT have to track down a signature from the Dean of the Graduate College. I just needed Allison to sign off on it and, thankfully, she did! Yeah!

It looks like I will receive credit for ALL of my course work while abroad. Ironically, OU added a new degree program in Arts Management on April 19th and all but one of my courses may be equivalent to the courses offered in the Arts Management program (the other course will count as an Art History course). Talk about good timing! :)

Also, I am enrolled in 5 hours of Graduate Directed Readings this Summer with Andrew Phelan (http://art.ou.edu/people/phelan-a.html) the professor responsible by creating the Arts Management degree program. ;)

Isn't it amazing how things seem to be falling together?

-Vanessa