My transcripts did not arrive on Thursday either. Before I learned that, I contacted Dominguez Hills and told the woman I spoke with that I would gladly pay to have my transcripts sent via FedEx overnight. Late in the afternoon, just before I learned that my transcripts that were supposed to have been sent the previous Friday, priority mail, did not arrive, she called me and informed me that FedEx had picked up the packet.
Yesterday afternoon, the transcripts sent via FedEx on Thursday did arrive. I put them in with all of the other required documents and took them whole thing to Office Depot to overnight them to USAFA on Monday. I have been following their progress since yesterday. (BTW, the transcripts supposedly sent last Friday did arrive today. Unfortunately, regardless of what I had been told about their being sent last Friday, the postmark was November 8. They were postmarked Tuesday, not last Friday. That is why they never got here on Wednesday or Thursday.)
At 2:32 AM early this morning, the application packet left the UPS station in Commerce City for Colorado Springs. Nothing has appeared to confirm that they have arrived in Colorado Springs yet. But the packet is supposed to be delivered at noon on Monday to USAFA. I can only hope that that happens. Until I get actual confirmation of delivery on that day, I won't rest easy.
With so many road blocks in the way, just to put the packet of documents together and send it all off, I have questioned whether or not this was the direction for me to take. However, after 32 years, I would never have let the opportunity pass without trying very hard to go back.
Again, the Academy can simply say that I do not have the required PhD, and I will have no further recourse. I only have a few years left until retirement. I, at least, want to have the opportunity to teach once more. But it's all out of my hands now.
When I tried to get accepted at UCCS for their teacher certification program back in 1988, I might have been beyond the deadline when I called about applying; however, the head of the program allowed me to apply anyway, and I was accepted, beyond their cutoff date. Even my horoscope the next morning said, after I visited the campus the previous afternoon, that I should consider returning to school to get a teaching certification. That certification didn't actually get me a secondary teaching job, but the additional education regarding teaching, and especially teaching English, might be enough to get me hired now. Or none of my experience and background will matter one bit.
Yesterday afternoon, the transcripts sent via FedEx on Thursday did arrive. I put them in with all of the other required documents and took them whole thing to Office Depot to overnight them to USAFA on Monday. I have been following their progress since yesterday. (BTW, the transcripts supposedly sent last Friday did arrive today. Unfortunately, regardless of what I had been told about their being sent last Friday, the postmark was November 8. They were postmarked Tuesday, not last Friday. That is why they never got here on Wednesday or Thursday.)
At 2:32 AM early this morning, the application packet left the UPS station in Commerce City for Colorado Springs. Nothing has appeared to confirm that they have arrived in Colorado Springs yet. But the packet is supposed to be delivered at noon on Monday to USAFA. I can only hope that that happens. Until I get actual confirmation of delivery on that day, I won't rest easy.
With so many road blocks in the way, just to put the packet of documents together and send it all off, I have questioned whether or not this was the direction for me to take. However, after 32 years, I would never have let the opportunity pass without trying very hard to go back.
Again, the Academy can simply say that I do not have the required PhD, and I will have no further recourse. I only have a few years left until retirement. I, at least, want to have the opportunity to teach once more. But it's all out of my hands now.
When I tried to get accepted at UCCS for their teacher certification program back in 1988, I might have been beyond the deadline when I called about applying; however, the head of the program allowed me to apply anyway, and I was accepted, beyond their cutoff date. Even my horoscope the next morning said, after I visited the campus the previous afternoon, that I should consider returning to school to get a teaching certification. That certification didn't actually get me a secondary teaching job, but the additional education regarding teaching, and especially teaching English, might be enough to get me hired now. Or none of my experience and background will matter one bit.
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