The Big Girl

I am about to finally go to bed....yikes...it is five in the morning. Jackson and Stephen came over tonight and we watched A Perfect Storm. Depressing.

I am pretty sure I rocked my Brit Lit exam. And I think my paper for Expository is pretty good. I then went and cleaned my parent's house, stopped off at the bank, and FINALLY went to renew my vehicle registration.

I didn't do any homework tonight. I had to force myself not to. I know that I needed one break to make myself emotionally feel better. I average about six hours of homework and studying a day. It is so exhausting. I remember during my first year of college in this class called ACAD 1100 (which is the same as APSU 1000 or an intro into college course where they teach you how to be a college student) my professor told us something like you should study twice how many hours the class outside of class. A three hour class warrants six hours of study time a week or something of that nature. Well, I am taking 19 hours. I am doing that and more.

I will say though, that MOST of that study time is spent reading. But, understand reading for school is not the same as reading for pleasure. Half of the time I am reading material I have no interest in whatsoever. Then, I have to make sure I understand and pay attention to everything for possible quizzes, tests, and discussions. And, you must consider the stress of reading multiple stories for different classes. I get really confused sometimes and forget what happened in which one and for which class, so I have to keep all of that straight and it is time consuming to boot.I can't just knock out 75 pages for one class in an hour- it takes awhile. A lot longer than pleasurable reading. Hell, I read the first Twilight book in one day- a what? 5-600 page book. One day. I could NEVER read that much for school in the same time.

I really miss Mike. Today is the 7th? 19 more days to go.

Like I said before, I have most of my stuff for Monday done...but I realized I have a pot load of German todo- a paper to rewrite- a paper to start- and a pretty long reading assignment.

Is it time to graduate yet???

The good news is I am not taking any literature classes next semester. I only have one left, but I am going to take it in the fall and give myself a break from all that business.

My tentative schedule for the Spring is:
Special Education
Instructional Technology
Instructional Strategies
Evaluation and Assessment
Diverse Students
Grammar and Usage

the first five are education course and the last is linguistics...although I won't have to read several pages of literature a night, I bet all of those classes have an insane amount of work to accomplish. Like actual written assignments.

Then in the Fall I will have 6 more classes to take and then in one year I will be getting ready to student teach.

AHHHH...then I will get a real big girl job making big girl monies...