It has been awhile since I last wrote anything. This would be because between moving insanity, deciding to enroll in the summer semester, choosing a major, and putting in notice at Walmart, I haven’t really had time to devote to writing in my blog. I need to get back into writing more often, however, as I have to write speeches this fall for Public Speaking, and because I will be taking a creative writing class in the spring. I need to get my creative juices flowing so my crazy ass can write and learn all of the science at the same time.
Basically, everything is happening right now. I’m currently taking Intro to Earth Science. This is a 5 credit hour class. (Four hours for the lecture and one for the lab.) The summer version of this class is 5 weeks long. This is incredibly intense. My poor brain. Two days into this class, I decided I would in fact be choosing Earth Science as my major, which I have now done. I’m still deciding if I want to continue having it be a Bachelor of Arts or if I want to switch it to Bachelor of Science – I don’t particularly want to take ten hours of foreign language.
Today, I stayed after to ask my professor some questions about what I need to do to prepare for the Meteorology class I’m taking this fall since we’re going to zip right through the atmospheric science section in the intro class (primarily due to the extremely compressed nature of this class – we’re covering a chapter per day, on average, sometimes two), and she gave me some advice regarding that: scour the chapters in the book I already have, try to get the book for the Meteorology class as early as possible and read through it, that kind of thing. She also talked to me about some of the stuff that I need to worry about for the test I’m taking tomorrow morning (we have a test every Friday for the lecture and a test every Tuesday for the lab), particularly the geologic time scale because I’m a little fuzzy on that and that’s mostly what the test is over. Then she told me that I’m doing fine in the class (I feel like I’m not retaining this information well at all because I’m making more mistakes than I would like to be – I’m not used to making several mistakes on assignments), and that I actually have the highest grade in the class. I’m just floored by that, because I was completely convinced that I am not doing well at all, but apparently I’m doing amazing. She also said that I have definitely picked the right major, and that I’m doing very well in the accelerated version of this class, and that while she wouldn't recommend most majors to take this class in the summer (it’s a prerequisite for everything else), I am handling it very well because I’m so intelligent, and it shouldn't be a problem when I’m taking other classes related to my major.
I leave class giddy every day (or annoyed that I don’t understand topographic maps very well), and I just love all of this stuff. I’d probably love it more if I wasn't so tired, though. I’m working on fixing that, though, as I put in notice at Walmart (it’s just killing me to keep working there, and I feel like I’m doing something totally insane by quitting my job, but I can feel my joints breaking down and it’s killing time I could be spending doing homework or going to bed at a decent hour)… I have three shifts to go – tomorrow, Saturday, and next Wednesday, and then I’m done. I’m not saying more because I don’t really want to burn bridges in case I crash and burn and fail out of college (I’m basically becoming Hermione – my boggart would totally be a professor telling me I've failed everything), because then I’ll need a job.
Many people have asked me how I’m planning on supporting myself – I have financial aid and the best, most supportive boyfriend in the world. This summer is going to be kind of sucky, but I think we’ll be okay. At some point, I need to find the time to redo the budget I made a couple of weeks ago because it ended up not working on a pretty grand scale. It was great in theory, but lacked a gas for the car budget and would work better if we only had one bank account. So it’s a great individual budget and a horrible two person, two account budget. Plus, I’m not very organized.
We've been doing pretty well around the house – I've managed to totally avoid having to use the garbage disposal here because Matt is always the person who runs it. He’s such a good guy. I need to clean really bad because everything is so cluttered right now – we don’t know where to put everything. We lost my umbrella for a month because I forgot Heather put it in the furnace closet. We have a great symbiotic relationship here, though, and I can’t speak for Matt (he’s not even here right now, he’s visiting his parents today), but I’m very happy with being here and living with him. Having him not be here last night was like missing part of myself, everything was just wrong.
I don’t have much to say, sorry this is so boring. Too tired to be hilarious.
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