I’m nearing the end of my first full week back at school… $5400 in tuition, and $800 in books later… and… things aren’t bad actually. I’m really enjoying all of my classes, even the one I had issues with on the first day – HIS106, Making the Americas. I kinda thought the prof was a little boring, but that changed today… not that he was less boring.. or… whatever. LOL. I just ended up enjoying his class… and I think I’ll keep on enjoying it. Oh I did have issues too with POL208, Intro to International Relations… the prof is kinda annoying… or stupid… well I doubt stupid, but you know… It was just a stupid class today, but I kinda understand, it’s the first class ever… But yeah, it better be good… this is my specialty choice… almost all of the rest of the courses I plan to take involve International Relations.
Anyway, been working like crazy… I’ve had a ton of first days this week… first day of school… first day of like 3 different jobs… it’s pretty crazy. But I’m getting into the groove of things. As I mentioned before… actually I lied before… I’m eventually going to have 800 dollars worth of text books.. Right now, I have like $720, I have 10 already, and I have 5 more to buy :S. 2 of the ones I already have (and 2 more of the ones I still need to buy) are “recommended” only… Which, normally, I wouldn’t buy. But yeah, meh… I secretly believe that I can actually pull off a 4.0 Sessional GPA… which raises my CGPA up like crazy… Well now it’s not so secret, but meh, that really is my goal. And I’m gonna do everything to get it… Like actually read all of the recommended readings.
Then there’s my schedule… Which is just ridiculous… Well, not really. Tuesdays and Thursdays are ridiculous. Both days, I start my day at 5:30AM, and on Tuesdays, I end it at around 10PM, while Thursdays, I end it around 7PM. Crazy huh? but not really… Wednesdays and Fridays, I still have to wake up early (but only 6:30, instead of 5:30). But then after work (Teaching ESL to Korean kids over the phone…) I get to nap until noon or so… cause I don’t have to be anywhere again until later that afternoon/evening. Oh and of course there’s Mondays, when I only have 1 class.
Saturdays are completely free for me, but Sundays are pretty hectic. This Sunday I’ll be at church pretty much at around 7:30AM, and I’ll probably be there until 7:30PM (3 services + orchestra rehearsal). hehe. Fun. That’s pretty much the same every week, cause starting the 24th, I’ll have Orchestra and Trec (but I don’t play every Sunday).
So yeah, I still think that my schedule is actually pretty solid… definately not as bad as the Summer’s 50 hour weeks… I’ve only got probably 30 hours worth of school and activities. But when you factor in commute times (typically 2 hours a day), it does add up. But yeah, as I said in my comment to Biebs, at least I can still catch Prison Break on Monday nights, and House on Tuesdays (through time shifting). I actually will miss Don Newman, cause I’m out of the house every day 3PM to whenever… And Don Newman’s on at 5PM.. But it doesn’t really matter all that match, cause actually I’m supposed to start paying more attention to International News, and to American News (my two POL classes). So I’m actually going to start reading The New York Times more….
Phew, ok, so I was supposed to start writing a recap of my summer. It’s something I actually started last week, but then something happened, and my browser crashed after I typed so much already. So I got discouraged. But eventually I’ll get around to it. LOL.
I’m working tommorow and Saturday, but after Saturday, I’m almost never gonna work Saturdays ever again… So yeah… I’ll get on it sometime… Whee.