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Finalising my courses for this semester has been unbelievably complicated.
I thought I had it all figured out at the beginning of the year. Year-long IT project, Machine Learning, Morphology, and the compulsory Advaned Linguistics Research. Then next semester, I'd finish the year-long project, do my last Linguistics course (probably Generative Syntax), and my last History course (probably Modern Britain).
Then I discovered a cognitive science course called Language, Brain and Representation that's part of the Linguistics major. So I enrolled in it. I really don't want to do five subjects this semester. I'm going to be doing the year-long project, and I really need to have a job this semester, too. I figured I'd see how things went for the rest of the holidays, then decide which to drop.
After a while, it seemed probable that the cognitive science course wouldn't be offered. Enrollment never got above 5, and it said the course may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrolled. After talking with sly_cult_race, I thought I'd rather do Imperial Britain this semester than Modern Britain next semester. Imperial Britain is the time period I'm more interested in, really. But I already had five courses lined up. This should be my last year, I can't save up interesting courses until next year anymore.
Then something happened to force me out of one of the five. I wanted to do an independent study course with my summer research project supervisors during second semester. It wouldn't count, because I only have the year-long project left to do in my IT degree. I figured I'd done heaps of extra courses already, what's one more? But in looking into that, it was revealed that as a Commonwealth-supported student, they can't knowingly let me enrol in courses that don't count towards my degree. Now that I think about it, only one or two of my courses actually didn't count when I did them, and they were both Arts courses. So I shouldn't do Machine Learning. That's okay, I can do it as part of my IT Honours, next year.
Back down to four subjects! But I really wanted to do Imperial Britain, and it looked like the cog sci course wouldn't happen. So I enrolled in Imperial Britain. That leaves only two courses for semester two. That's okay.
So I was pretty certain that this semester I'd do the year-long IT project, Morphology, Advanced Linguistics Research, and Imperial Britain. Not a bad group of classes. Made for a very nice timetable, too!
And then this morning I checked my email and saw that Language, Brain and Representation is going forward as a small reading group. I want to do this course. It's perfect for the language and artificial intelligence stuff that I want to do.
I really want to do that course. I really want to do Morphology and Imperial Britain. I have to do the year-long project and Advanced Linguistics Research. This is my dilemma. I'm half inclined to be suicidal and just do them all. But that would be bad. The practical options are to do Modern instead of Imperial Britain, or to drop Morphology. I only have three more Linguistics courses to do, so I only need to do two this semester if I'm doing Generative Syntax next semester. And of all the linguistics courses I'm considering, Morphology is probably the easiest one to study by myself by reading. I think. Dropping Morphology is the logical choice. But I want to do Morphology.
Any suggestions?
I thought I had it all figured out at the beginning of the year. Year-long IT project, Machine Learning, Morphology, and the compulsory Advaned Linguistics Research. Then next semester, I'd finish the year-long project, do my last Linguistics course (probably Generative Syntax), and my last History course (probably Modern Britain).
Then I discovered a cognitive science course called Language, Brain and Representation that's part of the Linguistics major. So I enrolled in it. I really don't want to do five subjects this semester. I'm going to be doing the year-long project, and I really need to have a job this semester, too. I figured I'd see how things went for the rest of the holidays, then decide which to drop.
After a while, it seemed probable that the cognitive science course wouldn't be offered. Enrollment never got above 5, and it said the course may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrolled. After talking with sly_cult_race, I thought I'd rather do Imperial Britain this semester than Modern Britain next semester. Imperial Britain is the time period I'm more interested in, really. But I already had five courses lined up. This should be my last year, I can't save up interesting courses until next year anymore.
Then something happened to force me out of one of the five. I wanted to do an independent study course with my summer research project supervisors during second semester. It wouldn't count, because I only have the year-long project left to do in my IT degree. I figured I'd done heaps of extra courses already, what's one more? But in looking into that, it was revealed that as a Commonwealth-supported student, they can't knowingly let me enrol in courses that don't count towards my degree. Now that I think about it, only one or two of my courses actually didn't count when I did them, and they were both Arts courses. So I shouldn't do Machine Learning. That's okay, I can do it as part of my IT Honours, next year.
Back down to four subjects! But I really wanted to do Imperial Britain, and it looked like the cog sci course wouldn't happen. So I enrolled in Imperial Britain. That leaves only two courses for semester two. That's okay.
So I was pretty certain that this semester I'd do the year-long IT project, Morphology, Advanced Linguistics Research, and Imperial Britain. Not a bad group of classes. Made for a very nice timetable, too!
And then this morning I checked my email and saw that Language, Brain and Representation is going forward as a small reading group. I want to do this course. It's perfect for the language and artificial intelligence stuff that I want to do.
I really want to do that course. I really want to do Morphology and Imperial Britain. I have to do the year-long project and Advanced Linguistics Research. This is my dilemma. I'm half inclined to be suicidal and just do them all. But that would be bad. The practical options are to do Modern instead of Imperial Britain, or to drop Morphology. I only have three more Linguistics courses to do, so I only need to do two this semester if I'm doing Generative Syntax next semester. And of all the linguistics courses I'm considering, Morphology is probably the easiest one to study by myself by reading. I think. Dropping Morphology is the logical choice. But I want to do Morphology.
Any suggestions?