Loving the Wheel of Pain
When I finished my readmission contract, I was finally switched to Good standing for Fall semester. I must say I got a little giddy when I realized I could take more than four classes, so I started piling on extra classes on top of the four I'm already taking. U.S. History since 1877? Intro to Psychology? Yes, please!
I actually registered for a Music class as well, but I reluctantly dropped it today to avoid having a seven hour block of class from 10am-5pm on Wednesdays. In the end I'm taking six classes, for a total of 18 hours. Most people I have talked to, in fact all of the people I have talked to, have winced in pain when I mention this. More than a few have cautioned against it.
In the end, taking extra classes solely to further my knowledge in different subjects (because I don't need the History or Psychology courses to graduate) follows my policy since I've come back to school, which is to aim to do more than the minimum I have to do. When I've done this it has resulted in excellent grades. When I aim for the minimum I usually fall short.
It will be a lot of work, work I will happily do, even if it costs me a few idle hours. The grant I received this year from Georgia Tech for making excellent grades this past year (coupled with my "financial circumstances", which are likely connected to my being a non-traditional student) had allowed me to cut a day of work from my schedule, so really I am swapping theatre work for school work.
As I move slowly away from the idle work and dead end of the movie theatre, the possibilities of the future start to glimmer in the horizon. Even if I don't know what I want to do with this degree yet, it is still going to be better than the mental dead-end that is working at the theatre, as fun as it has been. I'm pretty confident I can crush all of my classes this semester, even if some are technically harder. This is what I want, you see. I've had enough of the bare minimum, of "getting by". I thought that is what I wanted for a long time, but those idle brain cycles were just turning inward and making me feel depressed.
In cat news, George is coming out of his shell-shock, slowly. I also received two sympathy cards from the two veterinarians I saw this past week regarding Bird, with a handwritten note in the card from the 24 hour animal hospital that ultimately performed the final procedure. I definitely took Bird to the right places, of this I am sure.
I'm still working on the Hella Gems. I've recently upgraded my participation to posting a song weekly (though I'm not sure how long I will be able to keep this up with my course load). If you would like to know when I post something new, you can add erf_hg to your friends' list, though I recommend adding hellagems instead for the full feed, particularly since 90% of the output these days is from Bill (billings), Kelly G (kdgalla) and myself.
I actually registered for a Music class as well, but I reluctantly dropped it today to avoid having a seven hour block of class from 10am-5pm on Wednesdays. In the end I'm taking six classes, for a total of 18 hours. Most people I have talked to, in fact all of the people I have talked to, have winced in pain when I mention this. More than a few have cautioned against it.
In the end, taking extra classes solely to further my knowledge in different subjects (because I don't need the History or Psychology courses to graduate) follows my policy since I've come back to school, which is to aim to do more than the minimum I have to do. When I've done this it has resulted in excellent grades. When I aim for the minimum I usually fall short.
It will be a lot of work, work I will happily do, even if it costs me a few idle hours. The grant I received this year from Georgia Tech for making excellent grades this past year (coupled with my "financial circumstances", which are likely connected to my being a non-traditional student) had allowed me to cut a day of work from my schedule, so really I am swapping theatre work for school work.
As I move slowly away from the idle work and dead end of the movie theatre, the possibilities of the future start to glimmer in the horizon. Even if I don't know what I want to do with this degree yet, it is still going to be better than the mental dead-end that is working at the theatre, as fun as it has been. I'm pretty confident I can crush all of my classes this semester, even if some are technically harder. This is what I want, you see. I've had enough of the bare minimum, of "getting by". I thought that is what I wanted for a long time, but those idle brain cycles were just turning inward and making me feel depressed.
In cat news, George is coming out of his shell-shock, slowly. I also received two sympathy cards from the two veterinarians I saw this past week regarding Bird, with a handwritten note in the card from the 24 hour animal hospital that ultimately performed the final procedure. I definitely took Bird to the right places, of this I am sure.
I'm still working on the Hella Gems. I've recently upgraded my participation to posting a song weekly (though I'm not sure how long I will be able to keep this up with my course load). If you would like to know when I post something new, you can add erf_hg to your friends' list, though I recommend adding hellagems instead for the full feed, particularly since 90% of the output these days is from Bill (billings), Kelly G (kdgalla) and myself.