Robby,
Both June and Amy give good advice. I think if I were you, I would give serious thought to finding a college or university willing to work with LD students in a more constructive and helpful way. I know how really frustrating and infuriating all those double-binds and catch-22s are, but also how hard it may be to think about trying to start over somewhere else, let alone do the research to find the right college, and go through applying again. (I 'm thinking I most likely will not be back next year at the school I'm at now because the LD office is so bad.)
It really depends on how determined you are to stay where you are. Despite a lack of support from the LD office, I have found individual professors, instructors, and teaching assistants willing to work with me if they know what's going on, and in some classes this has made all the difference. I've started giving each prof/instructor/TA a copy of my LD documentation, including detailed discussion of specific problem areas. It seems to help them grasp my LD in more concrete terms, "get" that it's "real," and even think about different approaches (sometimes specific to the material) that may help me. But this is a personal decision, and different profs and the atmosphere of your school may make it more or less appropriate.
If you want to stay where you are, I'd definitely work closely with professors and TAs. Make sure they know what's going on. Show up at their office hours often, prepared to go over the material, so they know who you are and how determined you are.
(My freshman year I was such a regular at the early morning office hours of my math TA -- who was always eating breakfast when I arrived -- that after a while he started bringing coffee and doughnuts for me as well. Besides the free breakfasts, it paid off in my final grade . After all those hours of discussing the concepts and working through practice problems, he knew I understood the material, but just couldn't get through the calculations without errors. On the final exam I got half-way through a big problem, and I knew I had the numbers all tangled up. So instead of continuing the calculations using numbers I knew were wrong, I wrote an essay explaining what I would do at each step (if I had the right number), and why. The TA knew my pattern, and gave me almost full credit based on the conceptual understanding -- the essay -- even without all the actual calculations or the expected numerical answer.)
But even if you find good professors/TAs, if you aren't getting good support from the LD office or university administration, it gets really frustrating and tiring to always be at the mercy of each new professor, and of people who make and enforce Catch-22 rules that exclude anyone outside the norm. Think about how you are going to feel after 4 years at this school, given the level of support you can expect, and weigh that against. what it would take to find a more supportive environment and to make a move. There's nothing wrong with deciding that this school just isn't the best match for you. College is supposed to be challening, but it's not supposed to be hell.
Don't put yourself through torture that isn't necessary. There are good schools with good support for LDs. Lots of earlier messages on this forumn discuss good (and bad) schools, and ways to find information about them, so browse.
Good luck.
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