u/queerandanxious42

Hey so I've emailed my student success coach but not heard back yet because she's busy, so I figured I might as well ask here.

I'm a culinary student starting my first in-person classes on Monday. I have ordered my Downtown ID online and was told to pick it up at the Downtown Campus, but it's a ghost town. I didn't find anyone to talk to when I went to both the Dr. Philips Academic Commons or the Student Affairs Building. Also the Student Affairs building seems to be...under construction? It feels very liminal to say the least.

School starts in a week and I do not feel prepared at all. I have my uniforms, my gear, and my books. But I don't know where my classrooms are. There is so little information about the Downtown Campus on the MyVC page that this feels like a prank.

Does anyone know when there will be human beings that I can talk to in person at the Downtown Campus? Or where exactly I get that ID card I ordered?

TLDR: The Downtown Campus is confusing and I feel like I'm being pranked.

So I'm in Restaurant and Food Service Management online with Professor Benet, and besides the quizzes I take that are through Canvas, almost none of my work has grades showing. She says that Canvas has had major issues this semester with grades and module scheduling, but my Food and Beverage Cost Control class has been completely issue-free. She is apparently grading our work in a separate gradebook until she can get the issue fixed, but I'm worried that she won't make the deadline to input all our grades for the semester.

Has anyone else had issues like this with any of their classes? Has anyone ever had a professor not meet that end-of-semester deadline, and if so how did it impact their grade?

Thankfully I have a pretty small list of contacts. I am leaving some time between starting my new flip phone and deactivating my old smart phone in case there are any issues that require my old phone number for something but I think I've covered it. It's so nice and T9 texting is not actually that bad once you take a couple minutes to get used to it. I'm hoping to have a more peaceful and less anxious relationship with the phone now.

One thing I was surprised by was how quickly I was able to set it all up. Usually smartphone setup takes up most of my day when I get a new phone, but this took less than 30 minutes and that includes manually adding in every contact I needed and changing my phone number in my banking and school accounts. When there's no huge updates to install and tons of apps to deal with, it's pretty simple.