The two Bible studies are necessary, though the one I attend is only a 1.5-hour time commitment a week, which is not a big deal. And it's fun, so it's a positive thing. I *am* obligated to run one, which will take more time/energy, since I have to prep, poke people to go, pretend I know what I'm doing etc... but I've made a commitment, and it's something I'm excited about. More so than being SVP, I'm (somewhat) sad to say.
SVP's still cool though. I definitely prefer the hands-off. I like putting projects before brothers (via email or ch. meetings), and seeing which ones people are interested in. Then I'll approach someone to be a PC, but only if there's enough interest. For the most part, I think PCs will be doing little more than calling a place, arranging a time, and then spamming brothers. If anyone's interested in doing something more involved, I will work with them. So... hopefully I won't be doing too much. It will not be as stressful, since I've done it before, and hopefully not too time consuming, but still at least 3-4 hours a week or so. Maybe less, if I'm efficient!
The other classes are: 20.309, 7.06, 20.102. The first two are unavoidable. The last one I need for an RE... it seems almost more like a humanities: there are no exams, just a big paper at the end. I don't think it will be too hard, but it will take up time. I'd like to get one RE out of the way this fall... but taking them both in the spring *is* an option worth considering... hm!
The option I'm leaning most towards is dropping D-Lab, as insane as that sounds. IAP in Boston is fun. And I can definitely take a D-Lab course in the spring, although there's no trip included. It would leave me free to keep working on my D-Lab project from last spring, as well... Part of me is also concerned that too much of my motivation for taking D-Lab is to be able to travel and see those places. Like... I visit these folks, get a great learning experience out of it, but... what do they get? False hope, most likely. I dunno.
Fall junior year was pretty busy (APO presidency, 57 units including a lab). And it showed in my grades.
Each of my terms has been busy, but I've never had so many things I wanted to invest a lot of my time in. APO was always my "main schtick", but now there's TCC and D-Lab taking higher priority in my mind. But I've already committed myself heavily to APO, and I want to keep those commitments.
This is true what you say, about the 1.5 hours. But I think it's also important to consider "time-value", a sort of "value per hour". For me, Bible study has a very high time value, so it seems imprudent to give it up first (though I may have to, in the end). Where as classes, I dunno, a lot of time their time-value is very low, as a function of the sheer amount of time you have to spend on them.
SVP's still cool though. I definitely prefer the hands-off. I like putting projects before brothers (via email or ch. meetings), and seeing which ones people are interested in. Then I'll approach someone to be a PC, but only if there's enough interest. For the most part, I think PCs will be doing little more than calling a place, arranging a time, and then spamming brothers. If anyone's interested in doing something more involved, I will work with them. So... hopefully I won't be doing too much. It will not be as stressful, since I've done it before, and hopefully not too time consuming, but still at least 3-4 hours a week or so. Maybe less, if I'm efficient!
The other classes are: 20.309, 7.06, 20.102. The first two are unavoidable. The last one I need for an RE... it seems almost more like a humanities: there are no exams, just a big paper at the end. I don't think it will be too hard, but it will take up time. I'd like to get one RE out of the way this fall... but taking them both in the spring *is* an option worth considering... hm!
The option I'm leaning most towards is dropping D-Lab, as insane as that sounds. IAP in Boston is fun. And I can definitely take a D-Lab course in the spring, although there's no trip included. It would leave me free to keep working on my D-Lab project from last spring, as well... Part of me is also concerned that too much of my motivation for taking D-Lab is to be able to travel and see those places. Like... I visit these folks, get a great learning experience out of it, but... what do they get? False hope, most likely. I dunno.
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Each of my terms has been busy, but I've never had so many things I wanted to invest a lot of my time in. APO was always my "main schtick", but now there's TCC and D-Lab taking higher priority in my mind. But I've already committed myself heavily to APO, and I want to keep those commitments.
This is true what you say, about the 1.5 hours. But I think it's also important to consider "time-value", a sort of "value per hour". For me, Bible study has a very high time value, so it seems imprudent to give it up first (though I may have to, in the end). Where as classes, I dunno, a lot of time their time-value is very low, as a function of the sheer amount of time you have to spend on them.
Ack, I need to work out my priorities!
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