ASIAN STUDIES CERTIFICATE

++ I'VE BEEN TALKING to the director of asian studies here at uc, prof. not to be named. and he has led me to believe the past two years that i would be on track or could be on track to get a certificate in asian studies. this isn't an entry to deface or discredit him (although its turning out to be that) but he has been largely unhelpful and largely unaccomodating in helping me. i know i'm not one of his students who have asian studies as their major, but still he's a professor and a director, meaning he has an obligation to the students, to any student, right? i know professors have their own research and their own agendas and their own work, but the main reason why they are a professor is to what.. .. ..? teach students and help students and be a mentor to students and to direct students.. .. riiii-ght? you would think. i guess i'm just frustrated that he has not helped me at all and that i do not have enough credits to qualify for a certificate and after i submitted my application, he didn't even email me back to tell me that he had received it. so i emailed him today to verify he had received it and he more or less the only thing he told me was that he had received it, reviewed it, and i will not be receiving a certificate. which is fine that i don't receive it. i just have problems with him as a person in charge of helping students, when he is clearly not helping students as much as he could. but who am i to question him and doubt him. i'm only a student. 24 years old and naive. right? oh crap. i'm 24! i completely forgot that. wow. its time to get out of here. time to leave this place.. ++