waterbird13:

Things that give me a heart attack: Finding out I am technically missing a graduation requirement that I literally do not have time to fill.

I mean, I will fight them to the grave that one of my high school AP classes should cover it, because they are the exact same thing as…

I’m, oh, almost 20 years out of graduate school and I still have occasional nightmares in which, for some reason, my home state decided to add an American History requirement to graduate high school. No problem, right?  Except they applied it retroactively.  That meant that while I was applying for board certification for professional specialty accreditation it was discovered that my postdoctoral fellowship was invalid because I didn’t officially have a doctorate, which was invalid because I didn’t have a BA, which was invalidated by the fact that I had never received that new retroactively applied American History credit and so hadn’t officially graduated from high school.  

Somehow I end up seated in a row among those plastic and pressboard desks trying desperately not to fall asleep and resenting the hell out having to back to friggin’ HIGH SCHOOL of all places.  And yet at the same time they were pressuring me to provide professional services to their students, because lord knows of course they were able to get the state to agree to uphold my license to practice even though at the same time they were saying I didn’t even have a HS diploma, much less a graduate degree and the many and various things you have to have after a doctorate in order to actually practice your profession.  

As you can tell, I may have had this dream one or two times.

Good luck!  I hope it works out.