At least the documents arrived.
How did I know? On Wednesday morning around 4am, my phone was ringing. (actually it was vibrating, but good thing I still woke up by it... now think of it, that's kinda miraculous, PTL!)A very helpful lady from TECO called. She told me TECO had received my paperwork but they were unsure what exactly I wanted them to do.
At first I was a bit irritated. On the application I put down I was applying for CSS, and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the first one to do that. So what do you mean by you don't know what to do?
Then there's the 4am phone call. She knew I live China because I wrote it on the application (she mentioned it too & apologized for waking me up). But com'on... I gave her my cell number, couldn't she have called at a somewhat more reasonable hour? OK, there's a time difference and maybe she's more concerned about this process than I am (she sounded like it). But I bet 99 out of 100 people would still be sleeping at 4am. How about a 5am call instead? :)
And then she was really helpful and good at explaining why she didn't know what I wanted them to do. But she kept repeating the same thing when I wanted to ask her a couple clarifying questions! She just kept going and going. So I was starting to get irritated. Good thing I didn't blow up.
Finally she was able to figure out what I wanted TECO to do and she was able to tell me what my next step is. TECO needs to verify my UCI diploma & transcript. If I want TECO to do it, they can but I would have needed to send them the required fee (from UCI) in cashier's check or money order. I hate going to banks in China because it's so inefficient and the service isn't very good.
PTL we can do it another way. I can request UCI to send TECO an official transcript. The only thing is the registrar's office at UCI doesn't accept debit/credit cards so students or alumni can only request an official transcript in person, by mail, or by fax. So fax is not a bad option, but I'll need someone to pay for me at the registrar's office. PTL a friend of mine who works at UCI is going to do me a HUGE favor by paying for me first. Today (thursday, 3/11/2010) I faxed the form and emailed my friend. We'll see how it goes.
This whole process is making me stressed... even though in my mind it's not very stressful. I'm really OK doing whatever. But I think I'm stressed over not wanting to go through all the work only to have me disqualified because I didn't submit the right paperwork, or missed something. I think I would be more OK during the lottery process I got a "bad" assignment. I think part of the stress is also from my "J ness" (myers-briggs). I just want to have closure, to finish the application process, and not leave things hanging or unfinished.
Anyway. A 4am phone call didn't help... I couldn't fall sleep after that. (but I did manage to have some reading time. PTL for that.)
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