{"id":6661,"date":"2019-02-27T18:37:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2019-02-28T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:51:02","slug":"why-is-oip-so-bureaucratic-and-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/27\/why-is-oip-so-bureaucratic-and-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is OIP so bureaucratic and awful?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/022719-1.jpg\" alt=\"Why is OIP so bureaucratic and awful?\" class=\"wp-image-6651\"\/><figcaption>Why is OIP so bureaucratic and awful?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re having an unpleasant experience with the Office of International Programs. I would hazard a guess that any office that tries to arrange hundreds of students&#8217; travel and study to countries with a dizzying variety of visa and academic requirements might have a hard time providing perfect service. If you have a complaint about their personnel or procedures, I recommend contacting them directly: oip@bc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry you&#8217;re having an unpleasant experience with the Office of International Programs. I would hazard a guess that any office that tries to arrange hundreds of students&#8217; travel and study to countries with a dizzying variety of visa and academic requirements might have a hard time providing perfect service. If you have a complaint &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/02\/27\/why-is-oip-so-bureaucratic-and-awful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is OIP so bureaucratic and awful?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[500],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-international-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}