Summer Semester

[WindDancer627]

   Well I am three days into the summer semester and about to rip all my hair out.  There is no way that I will ever do these six week crunch courses again.  It is absolutely insane the amount of work, plus the two hours of sitting in each class.  I have no idea how people do it.  On top of school I am supposed to be working 20 hours a week, which is just killing the amount of time I have to do homework.  Basically I get home and do homework until my eyes start bleeding and I am falling asleep on my books then go to bed.  In the middle I get to get my daughter and make dinner, since I appear to be the only one capable of doing so.  I spent at least three hours on my functions homework yesterday and I am dreading what life will be like when we are learning something new rather than just reviewing.
    My anthropology class is pretty neat, the instructor seems a little scattered, but what he has to say is all pretty interesting.  It is a lot of reading to pile on top of my functions homework however.  At least two chapters a night.  My functions for calculus class seems like it could be a lot of fun.  The problem I am having with the class is that the instructor has a very strong accent, so I have trouble understanding him.  Also when he doesn't know exactly how to explain something he just moves on, so I kind of wonder what important things I am missing because I don't speak Russian.  One of my classmates pointed out that he is definitely a mathematician, but not really a teacher.  I think I agree with that statement.
    Work is going pretty well, soon I am supposed to get a computer at my desk, which means that I will be able to accomplish a lot more.  Tomorrow I have to go to a four hour training session on how to use the database program that they have, which unfortunately means that I am going to miss my functions class.  I did manage to get the assignments though, which is good.  I also learned that I have an anthropology paper to write this weekend, but I don't know what it is supposed to be about.
    As I said, no more six week crunch sessions for me.  Or at least if I do it again I am only going to do one at a time, this is just way too much stuff and I barely have enough time to work things out anyway.  Hopefully everyone is doing great, and good luck in all your summer plans.

[bigblueeyes]

May. 23, 2007 at 8:52 PM good luck with school......one of my sisters is in school too.....she's decided to go for her rn.....she says every summer that she's not gonna do that again.....lol