In college, I was doing my own counciling, pretty much going through the booklet and marking off classes as I took them.
One of my teachers said, "You should go see a counciler because they can tell you different classes that you can take and still get the credits you need."
I went to the counciler and he said, "Hey, you're about to graduate." By my figures, I still had another 18 hours or more.
"No, no," he said, "if you take 10 hours this term, you'll be OK to graduate." I took his word for it and took 10 hours of easy electives.
When I applied to graduate, the person told me that I was still 20 credit hours short. I asked my original counciler what happened he said 'Well I can't do it all for you, mmyers!'
I wasted $600 of my own money on books and classes, a semester on doing nothing, and the whole thing didn't fucking count towards graduating.
