So I'm a bit of a stressball right now. And I can see that it is completely ridiculous on my part to be worrying about things that aren't even on the horizon for several months, but I'm feeling under the weather today, and I guess that has made me more susceptible to stressing out about random nonsense.
The kids brought home a lovely cold-y/flu-y thing from school towards the end of last week, and apparently today is my turn.
I'm just so lucky I could swoon!
No really, my head is really fuzzy and if I stand for too long I start to get a little dizzy and, well, swoon-y.
It's been a fun day so far, let me tell ya! What with the splitting headache that makes me feel like someone is stabbing dull steak knives into my brain. Or the waves of nausea that make me feel like I'm trapped in a skiff on super choppy waters. Or the weak, floppy feeling I have, where just the effort to brush my teeth or blow-dry my hair left me needing to lay down for a bit.
Oh yeah, and the utter lack of an attention span!
(Well, I guess the attention span thing may actually be pretty normal...)
But I digress. So I feel like crap today. And it's an absolutely gorgeous day outside. And I can't go enjoy these last delicious days of summer because of the I-feel-like-death-on-a-stick situation I find myself in.
So the next logical choice?
Well, have an overwhelming desire to bake brownies, for one. And anyone who knows me knows that I hate baking outside of Christmastime, so clearly I'm not well in the head!
And also?
Start worrying about the fact that you have to take three classes winter quarter, instead of the usual two.
Yeah...
You know, because winter quarter doesn't start until the middle of January. As in, 2014. As in, four and a half months away.
Let me explain.
This is my last year of school before I graduate with my degree in business management and get that little piece of paper that says "Yay you, you're smart!"
I officially have three quarters left, and I could not be more excited about it! It's taken me, oh, about a bajillion years (choosing what you want to be when you grow up is difficult, okay?) but I'm finally here. The end is nigh!
But for whatever reason, my classes worked out kind of wonky, so I have seven classes left. Which means that I either extend my timeframe and take my business capstone in the summer, or I buckle down and take three classes at once in order to be done on time.
I'm opting for the three classes option.
It's far from ideal. After all, the two classes that constitute a full-time load are generally difficult enough, the idea of juggling three is certainly daunting. Each class generally requires at least 10-15 hours of work per week. And that's not counting the extra time required for research and writing papers and taking tests and all that. Those 10-15 hours are just for the reading assignments (the average is a minimum of 50 pages per week per class), the discussion question responses, and the peer responses.
The three classes that quarter are all going to be lower-level electives, so I'm going to try and take classes that are a little gentler on my sanity, but you can't really predict how that winds up, because there is so much variation between instructors. It's a total crapshoot.
So why not just bump the capstone back, you say?
Well, for one, because I want to be done as quickly as possible. And for two, because thanks to a little-publicized policy change that our lovely former president George W. Bush instituted, undergrads can only borrow so much for their degree, regardless of school.
So if you attend a community college? You can afford to go to school for probably ten years before you hit your cap.
If you attend a higher quality school? You barely squeeze in under the cut off.
And for those attending, say, an Ivy League school? Fahgettaboutit!
(Then again, aren't all Ivy League-ers rich to begin with? So like they're borrowing for their education, amiright?!?)
Anyhoodle, so yeah, because I'm squarely in the independent middle class, and because I'm attending a higher quality school, my loan limits will be reached spring quarter. Which means I'm squeezing in three classes winter quarter. And I'll still have to pay a bit out of pocket for the third class.
But it's still cheaper than paying for the capstone completely out of pocket.
That course is freaking expensive!!!
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