School burbling
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sereneThe other day, I posted about a night class I wanted to take but wasn't sure I wanted to deal with the commute for. Then shit got silly.
First, it turned out I didn't have the prerequisites for it. Then, oh, wait, maybe I did! Then my creative writing professor, who is married to the teacher who teaches the night class, says she told him he should let me in. Then I wrote to the professor, who is also my major advisor, and he DID let me in!
So now, I have an insane Spring quarter schedule, but I'm also insanely happy, not least because if commuting doesn't work out for me on the bus/train,loracs is going to be my shuttle driver for a couple months.
So here's my schedule, April through June:
Advanced Expository Writing;
American Women's Lit;
Advanced Fiction Workshop;
Senior Seminar (of English majors);
and I may squeeze a GE sexuality course in there, but they don't let you add more units until everyone else has gotten a crack at 4.
The good news: No online courses this time, or ASL (which exhausts me, but I will take it again after a quarter's break), or anything that looks vaguely boring.
The bad news: More time away from home: one 10am-4pm day, same as I'm doing now, and one day that goes from 10am to 9:45pm or so. It'll be hard, but then I can really rest up in the summer, and I'm hoping the excitement of being immersed in classes for my major will in some measure make up for all the time and energy this will take.
Also, I'm happy to be doing all my classes on campus; the online classes are surprisingly stressful, because there's no teacher to ask about stuff (they've all been really bad about answering email) and there's a lot of vagueness and uncertainty most of the time. I've taken 3 online classes so far, and I'll probably take them again, but they're not turning out to be as cool as I'd hoped. (Which, I suppose, casts my nascent plan to do an online Masters in a different light.)
Anyway, it's been really hard, but this quarter ends in THREE WEEKS! and then I have a week off before the new quarter. I'm pretty excited. Will probably not pull out a 4.0 this quarter because I have one tough grader this time around, but that's okay. I feel like she's really improved my ability to organize my thoughts when writing about literature, and that's going to be invaluable to me.
First, it turned out I didn't have the prerequisites for it. Then, oh, wait, maybe I did! Then my creative writing professor, who is married to the teacher who teaches the night class, says she told him he should let me in. Then I wrote to the professor, who is also my major advisor, and he DID let me in!
So now, I have an insane Spring quarter schedule, but I'm also insanely happy, not least because if commuting doesn't work out for me on the bus/train,
loracs is going to be my shuttle driver for a couple months.So here's my schedule, April through June:
Advanced Expository Writing;
American Women's Lit;
Advanced Fiction Workshop;
Senior Seminar (of English majors);
and I may squeeze a GE sexuality course in there, but they don't let you add more units until everyone else has gotten a crack at 4.
The good news: No online courses this time, or ASL (which exhausts me, but I will take it again after a quarter's break), or anything that looks vaguely boring.
The bad news: More time away from home: one 10am-4pm day, same as I'm doing now, and one day that goes from 10am to 9:45pm or so. It'll be hard, but then I can really rest up in the summer, and I'm hoping the excitement of being immersed in classes for my major will in some measure make up for all the time and energy this will take.
Also, I'm happy to be doing all my classes on campus; the online classes are surprisingly stressful, because there's no teacher to ask about stuff (they've all been really bad about answering email) and there's a lot of vagueness and uncertainty most of the time. I've taken 3 online classes so far, and I'll probably take them again, but they're not turning out to be as cool as I'd hoped. (Which, I suppose, casts my nascent plan to do an online Masters in a different light.)
Anyway, it's been really hard, but this quarter ends in THREE WEEKS! and then I have a week off before the new quarter. I'm pretty excited. Will probably not pull out a 4.0 this quarter because I have one tough grader this time around, but that's okay. I feel like she's really improved my ability to organize my thoughts when writing about literature, and that's going to be invaluable to me.
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