Life of a College Senior
Konnichiwa LJ! I overslept today. -___-; Last night I was like, "Ok. Go to bed after InuYasha at 6am (did that) and as soon as my alarm goes off at 12:30 call Izzy and tell her to take her pills then crawl out of bed and find stuff to do so you'll go to bed early = FAILED. I was so tired I don't even remember if my alarm went off or not. I think I heard it, rolled over, called Izzy, then rolled back over and conked out. lol Usually when I call Izzy after that time she'll jokingly tease me in that I forgot to call her (it happens sometimes) but she'll say she took her pills so yay! She's been getting pretty good at remembering but I still call her every day at 12:30 just to be sure. So since I slept til 3ish I'm finishing my 2 liter soda and I'll try to remember to get up at 12:30 tomorrow. :D
And I was right about my family not saying Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr. My aunt made a post on Facebook and she said, "Frohes Neues Jahr."
So onto the college that most of you are probably curious about from my previous post.
The way my college used to work is that we (the students) would meet every January and every July for a week to make new friends, talk with advisors, and pick a topic we'd like to study for the semester. After the week was up we'd all go home to work on our study plan whenever time permitted. I like working at night. :) There are no tests, quizzes, or extreme deadlines. All the students do is read 4 books in 4 weeks, write an annotation on each book, and send them to their advisor on the deadlines stated in their paperwork. 20 books will have been read when the semester is drawing to a close.
Now things have changed. The college I attend used to meet atop the hill in Montpelier where CCV and another college are. The Cycle Program got kicked to the curb and we are meeting at the Double Tree hotel this January cycle (I think for the time being?). The students are also stuck doing a trimester now, which is a real pain. A lot of hassles and arguments arose because of this new thing with lost paperwork and whatnot, and let's just say a lot of students weren't happy - me included - with what happened with the change.
So the students will be meeting on January 8th and we will be staying at the hotel til January 15th. We get free rooms and meals since it counts toward a dorm room and there's even an inside pool where we can have school meetings around the poolside. Izzy was all ecstatic about it but I told her I wasn't bringing my swimsuit. I'd rather focus all my attention on school work and not be distracted by the pool. She was disappointed but she has other friends during the Cycle Program; she can hang with them.
Check in will be at the Double Tree Hotel on Thursday, but the meal plan begins on Friday. For those students flying in, a Doubletree van will pick them up from the airport and drive them to the hotel. Nice, huh? The only problem is that the campus has a computer lab and for the hotel we have to bring laptops. For people like me and Izzy we don't have laptops and will have to rent one. I had an idea that Izzy and I split the cost of renting a laptop and just share it, but I believe there will be complications when the time comes for the other one to share. We could just make up a time schedule, but Izzy and I love to do massive research on our study topics and I spend hours on end looking up books and such for my study topic. So I think I'll just rent my own laptop. I could buy one but I've thought about it and I never really go anywhere, so why buy one? I have a computer at home.
Besides I'm not that obsessed with the online world where I have to carry a computer with me so I can check my email or other stuff. I actually enjoy having errands that will last all day so it keeps me away from the Brain Sucker. I used to have a schedule that I would stay up til 1-3am, sleep til 12:30, call Izzy and tell her to take her pills, then get up for the day to do errands and whatnot and then at 6pm turn on my computer and use it til bedtime. I need to get in that habit again.... lol But I find working on homework easier at night since I'm a night owl and I get more homework done. Hm.... I'll make up a schedule on the 18th and remind myself to stick to it considering goddess knows what torture awaits me this semester.
As of yet I don't know how the trimester will affect me. Before the whole trimester thing I would have the right amount of credits to graduate (we got 15 credits every semester) if it had stayed. But due to the trimester the students not only have less work to do but less credits are received and instead of meeting in July we meet every 3 or 4 months. I had calculated my credits when the news of the trimester arose in July and I found that if I had to do the trimester I would be graduating in May and I had told my family August.
I think the trimester may have started this semester because there are six students in my Cycle group and I think three of them - me included - are Seniors. The non-Seniors turned in their last packet on November 23rd but the Seniors had to turn in one more packet on Dec 14th. The students used to turn in 5 packets throughout the semester and now it's 3 or 4.
Sorry if my thoughts are jumbled like a dryer. I'm just trying to work this out in my head and also try to make it clear what's going on. ^______^ When I found out about the trimester and the new deadlines and credits, I sat down and calculated my credits if I had to do the trimester. If I had to do the trimester I would be one freaking credit short of graduating. And according to the paperwork I'd have to talk to my advisor about what to do about that one credit. I think it would be awesome if the Seniors didn't have to do the trimester and we got to do another full semester of 20 books and 5 packets.
Izzy and I are best friends and have been roomies every time the Cycle week came along. But because I'll be graduating whenever, Izzy's always pouting and whining (jokingly of course) that I should continue college and get my Masters so we can continue being roommates. I smile back saying I've had enough of school and that she should start making friends in the Jan cycle so she'll have a roommate she'll be comfortable around. But even with new friends Izzy wouldn't feel as comfortable as she does with me (we're like sisters we're so close) and she said she'd feel awkward. Sorry babe.
It's really a shame the Cycle program isn't meeting atop the hill anymore cause Izzy could do what she did last semester: go home when everything's over and come back the next day. I hope the college finds another place in or around Montpelier to have the Cycle program after I've graduated so Izzy can just go home afterward and not worry about the roommate. It shows how different we are. In my previous college I didn't mind being stuck with roommates I didn't know (I've always been a loner). Besides, my roommates didn't stay long and I got the whole dorm room to myself. ^_______^ People in Indiana are weird - at least the people I've met in my previous college were.
So as it stands I don't know if I'll be graduating in May or August, but when I've talked it over with the advisors and I find out I'll let my family on the news. If it is May I hope Mama or Jenny (twin) can be able to make it on such short notice (I know it's a 4 month notice, but when money's tight and all....). I'd love to have both of them there (even if Jenny is bringing the Brady Bunch with her aka HER family) but if it turns out that one can't make it I hope the other one can. The students get to choose who we want to give us our diplomas, and I would like it to be one of them.
And I was right about my family not saying Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr. My aunt made a post on Facebook and she said, "Frohes Neues Jahr."
So onto the college that most of you are probably curious about from my previous post.
The way my college used to work is that we (the students) would meet every January and every July for a week to make new friends, talk with advisors, and pick a topic we'd like to study for the semester. After the week was up we'd all go home to work on our study plan whenever time permitted. I like working at night. :) There are no tests, quizzes, or extreme deadlines. All the students do is read 4 books in 4 weeks, write an annotation on each book, and send them to their advisor on the deadlines stated in their paperwork. 20 books will have been read when the semester is drawing to a close.
Now things have changed. The college I attend used to meet atop the hill in Montpelier where CCV and another college are. The Cycle Program got kicked to the curb and we are meeting at the Double Tree hotel this January cycle (I think for the time being?). The students are also stuck doing a trimester now, which is a real pain. A lot of hassles and arguments arose because of this new thing with lost paperwork and whatnot, and let's just say a lot of students weren't happy - me included - with what happened with the change.
So the students will be meeting on January 8th and we will be staying at the hotel til January 15th. We get free rooms and meals since it counts toward a dorm room and there's even an inside pool where we can have school meetings around the poolside. Izzy was all ecstatic about it but I told her I wasn't bringing my swimsuit. I'd rather focus all my attention on school work and not be distracted by the pool. She was disappointed but she has other friends during the Cycle Program; she can hang with them.
Check in will be at the Double Tree Hotel on Thursday, but the meal plan begins on Friday. For those students flying in, a Doubletree van will pick them up from the airport and drive them to the hotel. Nice, huh? The only problem is that the campus has a computer lab and for the hotel we have to bring laptops. For people like me and Izzy we don't have laptops and will have to rent one. I had an idea that Izzy and I split the cost of renting a laptop and just share it, but I believe there will be complications when the time comes for the other one to share. We could just make up a time schedule, but Izzy and I love to do massive research on our study topics and I spend hours on end looking up books and such for my study topic. So I think I'll just rent my own laptop. I could buy one but I've thought about it and I never really go anywhere, so why buy one? I have a computer at home.
Besides I'm not that obsessed with the online world where I have to carry a computer with me so I can check my email or other stuff. I actually enjoy having errands that will last all day so it keeps me away from the Brain Sucker. I used to have a schedule that I would stay up til 1-3am, sleep til 12:30, call Izzy and tell her to take her pills, then get up for the day to do errands and whatnot and then at 6pm turn on my computer and use it til bedtime. I need to get in that habit again.... lol But I find working on homework easier at night since I'm a night owl and I get more homework done. Hm.... I'll make up a schedule on the 18th and remind myself to stick to it considering goddess knows what torture awaits me this semester.
As of yet I don't know how the trimester will affect me. Before the whole trimester thing I would have the right amount of credits to graduate (we got 15 credits every semester) if it had stayed. But due to the trimester the students not only have less work to do but less credits are received and instead of meeting in July we meet every 3 or 4 months. I had calculated my credits when the news of the trimester arose in July and I found that if I had to do the trimester I would be graduating in May and I had told my family August.
I think the trimester may have started this semester because there are six students in my Cycle group and I think three of them - me included - are Seniors. The non-Seniors turned in their last packet on November 23rd but the Seniors had to turn in one more packet on Dec 14th. The students used to turn in 5 packets throughout the semester and now it's 3 or 4.
Sorry if my thoughts are jumbled like a dryer. I'm just trying to work this out in my head and also try to make it clear what's going on. ^______^ When I found out about the trimester and the new deadlines and credits, I sat down and calculated my credits if I had to do the trimester. If I had to do the trimester I would be one freaking credit short of graduating. And according to the paperwork I'd have to talk to my advisor about what to do about that one credit. I think it would be awesome if the Seniors didn't have to do the trimester and we got to do another full semester of 20 books and 5 packets.
Izzy and I are best friends and have been roomies every time the Cycle week came along. But because I'll be graduating whenever, Izzy's always pouting and whining (jokingly of course) that I should continue college and get my Masters so we can continue being roommates. I smile back saying I've had enough of school and that she should start making friends in the Jan cycle so she'll have a roommate she'll be comfortable around. But even with new friends Izzy wouldn't feel as comfortable as she does with me (we're like sisters we're so close) and she said she'd feel awkward. Sorry babe.
It's really a shame the Cycle program isn't meeting atop the hill anymore cause Izzy could do what she did last semester: go home when everything's over and come back the next day. I hope the college finds another place in or around Montpelier to have the Cycle program after I've graduated so Izzy can just go home afterward and not worry about the roommate. It shows how different we are. In my previous college I didn't mind being stuck with roommates I didn't know (I've always been a loner). Besides, my roommates didn't stay long and I got the whole dorm room to myself. ^_______^ People in Indiana are weird - at least the people I've met in my previous college were.
So as it stands I don't know if I'll be graduating in May or August, but when I've talked it over with the advisors and I find out I'll let my family on the news. If it is May I hope Mama or Jenny (twin) can be able to make it on such short notice (I know it's a 4 month notice, but when money's tight and all....). I'd love to have both of them there (even if Jenny is bringing the Brady Bunch with her aka HER family) but if it turns out that one can't make it I hope the other one can. The students get to choose who we want to give us our diplomas, and I would like it to be one of them.