I love Jerry Cain. He saved me $15,000.
The past month has been something of a crisis vis a vis scraping together 45 units of classes to count towards my MS degree without double-counting any of the classes I took to fulfill my CS BS requirements. Since all the upper level CS classes are only worth 3 units each, 45 units is 15 *hard* classes. Also, units here cost about $700 each. Yeah, I know.
Anyway, I made an appointment to meet with JC about two weeks ago to discuss the undergrad CS requirements. We talked for about 45 minutes, during which he gave me the idea to attempt to count several classes towards my masters that I had not originally thought to be likely candidates.
The guy that says what classes I can and can’t count towards my masters (my advisor, Ken) has been very illusive since I arrive at Stanford in September. I spent so much time (3 weeks…) stalking him to get him to sign off on my program sheet to no avail that his grad students took pity on me and put it on their stack of things for him to look at. Suddenly, towards the end of last week, Ken showed up to talk to a surgeon and my sheet was miraculously signed! Then just today, I got Claire to sign off on both my masters and undergrad program sheets — making it a done deal.
The end result? 19 units of classes I’ve already taken and got A’s in (good for that MS GPA) counted towards my MS. In fact, I only need to take two classes to complete my MS degree! Isn’t that exciting?
