Here’s a shocker for just about anyone: Grad school is very time consuming.
In the past week and a half, I have read hundreds of pages of policy related information. I say this without exaggeration. I also read stormwarden, which is, for the most part, not actively bad scifi, but not very good either.
I’m also in 7 courses. I’m one credit hour below the the point where they start charging you on a per-credit-hour basis again (otherwise known as the “stupidity tax point”), 14/15. I’m contemplating a drop and add scheme which would take me up to 14.5, while shifting some of my academic burden later into the semester, and covering a potentially more interesting & relevant topic.
I managed to churn out the minutes for the Federation of Workplace Democracies — Minnesota (FWD-MN) meeting in late september, and take them yesterday. I’ve been making friends with lots of my classmates, I played soccer, briefly, on a humphrey team on sunday. I’ve been eating so many clif bars that my morning protein shake started feeling like variety in my diet. I simply have not made it to the gym, and won’t today either, because I have an ill-considered shift at the coop (which is being changed right pronto).
Of the roommates, I leave the house first, and return last. I do need to rearrange my time commitments, but really, I need to drop some as well.
Oh, and Mesharr has received basically no attention. But I don’t think I’ll drop ff11 just yet. =)
And you know what? I’m feeling pretty good. Heh.
I took 20 credits my first semester here while working 15 hours per week. I win!
I suppose you get the grad school difficulty multiplier, though.
i did that my first semsiter at the u too.
now i am taking 9 credits and working two part time jobs. 😛