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my_window_seatIt looks like I'm going to bite the bullet and go from the 12 credit minimum for full-time and shoot up to (ulp) 16 credits for this next term.
Actually, I'm currently registered right now for 20 credits - but that's because I kept French class in my schedule, even though I'm planning to drop it if the rest of my classes come through.
See, last semester I got really screwed - one of my classes was dropped, I'm assuming because not enough people signed up for it - and by the time I was notified that it had gone bye-bye, nearly every other class that would be useful to me was full.
This time, I'm playing it safe. Er.
I hate doing that - 'reserving' space in a class that I really have no intention of taking, thereby possibly keeping someone else out until the last minute - but you know, that's the registration game, and I'm just going to go ahead and play it the way it's dealt.
Besides, I have a sneaking suspicion that the class I'm most jazzed to take - the German Expressionism & Film class - is likely to be dropped, for the same reason the Philosophy of Education class that got dropped last time was dropped - this is a Voc-Tech, not a Liberal Arts college, and this kind of class won't be in as high demand as all the other just-get-me-a-friggin'-job-already classes.
Anyway, so if I do happen to get everything I really want, I'll be taking two honors classes next semester with my other stuff. My schedule would be something like:
Monday:
Work at library - 9am-12pm
Biology for Non-Majors - 12:30-1:45
Math 100A - 3:00-4:50
Expressionism (Honors)- 6pm - 9:30pm
Tuesday:
Work at library - 10am-1pm
Musical Theatre - 1:30-2:45
(French class is plugged in here but I hope not to have to take it...)
Biology lab - 6pm-9pm
Wednesday:
Work at library - 9am-12pm
Biology for Non-Majors - 12:30-1:45
Math 100A - 3:00-4:50
Ancient Legacy (Honors) - 6pm - 9:30pm
Thursday:
Work at library - 10am-1pm
Musical Theatre - 1:30-2:45
(And the hopefully-to-be-dropped French class...)
Friday:
Work at library - 9am-5pm
Ugh.
Means I'll be at campus for 12+ hour days three days running every week, and have next-to-no time to study during the week. If there are assignments due from one class period to the next in either Bio or Musical Theatre, I'll have to try to cram them in in the middle of the night or take time off work and fudge hours in on Saturdays - and I really, really, really hate not having two consecutive days off a week.
Yeah, I know - whah. Poor effing baby.
Assuming I get what I want, I'll be taking two honors classes - and well, the thing to keep in mind for those is that I have to get at least an A or B for them to actually qualify as Honors credits. This may only be applicable if I transfer to UNM - which I have absolutely no intention of doing at this point - except, I'm keeping that as a grudging back-up plan if I can't get together a reasonably workable plan for transferring to Evergreen.
Unfortunately, I've recently discovered that Evergreen does not offer an undergraduate teaching degree - just a Masters in Teaching. On the one hand, I'd almost rather just stay in school and just go for the Masters anyway - but I don't know if this means that I have to go elsewhere to get an undergraduate teaching degree or if this is somehow waived if I have a Masters.
I'm discovering that I know next to nothing about what it actually takes to become a teacher.
This makes me feel like a complete idiot.
Neat.
And since TVI doesn't offer anything like this, they aren't equipped to tell me what I need - and I also suspect that the teaching requirements vary from state to state, sooooo - what would work in New Mexico may be entirely unlike what is necessary to teach in Washington state.
Bottom line - this whole teaching goal feels like it's getting more and more complicated every day.
And Evergreen, while they have some of the most neato-mosquito looking classes and curricula, is remarkably fucking IMPOSSIBLE as far as communication with prospective students goes. Fucking hippies. I've been trying to get them to send me a catalog since JUNE, and the stupid fuckers keep telling me to 'refer to their website' - which is a Skinner rat box of web design. It may be some kind of intelligence test to weed out undesirables - which tells me where I stand with that...
And I still haven't applied for a tutoring position for next semester - or started the process of getting hooked up with the Div. of Vocation Rehabilitation in Washington -
I've just been trying to keep my head above water with the depressing slog that this semester has been. I still loathe and despise all of my classes and my teachers, and I already know that my 4.0 is shot. I still haven't started my final paper for Poli-Sci - the 12-pager. In fact, I have an appointment with my Poli-Sci prof on Thursday, specifically because I think he wants to ream me a new asshole for challenging him in class today. Hey, I think it's valid to ask why it is that, 3/4 through the semester in a class called 'The Political World' we haven't once learned anything about, oh, the rest of the world. Hey, fucker - if you wanted to teach 'The Political World of Dr. X', you should have fucking written that in the catalog, you asshole.
I want this semester to be over.
And I'm more than a little freaked out by what I might be getting myself in for for next semester.
Not to mention all the little details about my prospective plans for the future that I haven't even come close to addressing.
I could go on and on and on...
And I'm not gonna.
Bleah.
Actually, I'm currently registered right now for 20 credits - but that's because I kept French class in my schedule, even though I'm planning to drop it if the rest of my classes come through.
See, last semester I got really screwed - one of my classes was dropped, I'm assuming because not enough people signed up for it - and by the time I was notified that it had gone bye-bye, nearly every other class that would be useful to me was full.
This time, I'm playing it safe. Er.
I hate doing that - 'reserving' space in a class that I really have no intention of taking, thereby possibly keeping someone else out until the last minute - but you know, that's the registration game, and I'm just going to go ahead and play it the way it's dealt.
Besides, I have a sneaking suspicion that the class I'm most jazzed to take - the German Expressionism & Film class - is likely to be dropped, for the same reason the Philosophy of Education class that got dropped last time was dropped - this is a Voc-Tech, not a Liberal Arts college, and this kind of class won't be in as high demand as all the other just-get-me-a-friggin'-job-already classes.
Anyway, so if I do happen to get everything I really want, I'll be taking two honors classes next semester with my other stuff. My schedule would be something like:
Monday:
Work at library - 9am-12pm
Biology for Non-Majors - 12:30-1:45
Math 100A - 3:00-4:50
Expressionism (Honors)- 6pm - 9:30pm
Tuesday:
Work at library - 10am-1pm
Musical Theatre - 1:30-2:45
(French class is plugged in here but I hope not to have to take it...)
Biology lab - 6pm-9pm
Wednesday:
Work at library - 9am-12pm
Biology for Non-Majors - 12:30-1:45
Math 100A - 3:00-4:50
Ancient Legacy (Honors) - 6pm - 9:30pm
Thursday:
Work at library - 10am-1pm
Musical Theatre - 1:30-2:45
(And the hopefully-to-be-dropped French class...)
Friday:
Work at library - 9am-5pm
Ugh.
Means I'll be at campus for 12+ hour days three days running every week, and have next-to-no time to study during the week. If there are assignments due from one class period to the next in either Bio or Musical Theatre, I'll have to try to cram them in in the middle of the night or take time off work and fudge hours in on Saturdays - and I really, really, really hate not having two consecutive days off a week.
Yeah, I know - whah. Poor effing baby.
Assuming I get what I want, I'll be taking two honors classes - and well, the thing to keep in mind for those is that I have to get at least an A or B for them to actually qualify as Honors credits. This may only be applicable if I transfer to UNM - which I have absolutely no intention of doing at this point - except, I'm keeping that as a grudging back-up plan if I can't get together a reasonably workable plan for transferring to Evergreen.
Unfortunately, I've recently discovered that Evergreen does not offer an undergraduate teaching degree - just a Masters in Teaching. On the one hand, I'd almost rather just stay in school and just go for the Masters anyway - but I don't know if this means that I have to go elsewhere to get an undergraduate teaching degree or if this is somehow waived if I have a Masters.
I'm discovering that I know next to nothing about what it actually takes to become a teacher.
This makes me feel like a complete idiot.
Neat.
And since TVI doesn't offer anything like this, they aren't equipped to tell me what I need - and I also suspect that the teaching requirements vary from state to state, sooooo - what would work in New Mexico may be entirely unlike what is necessary to teach in Washington state.
Bottom line - this whole teaching goal feels like it's getting more and more complicated every day.
And Evergreen, while they have some of the most neato-mosquito looking classes and curricula, is remarkably fucking IMPOSSIBLE as far as communication with prospective students goes. Fucking hippies. I've been trying to get them to send me a catalog since JUNE, and the stupid fuckers keep telling me to 'refer to their website' - which is a Skinner rat box of web design. It may be some kind of intelligence test to weed out undesirables - which tells me where I stand with that...
And I still haven't applied for a tutoring position for next semester - or started the process of getting hooked up with the Div. of Vocation Rehabilitation in Washington -
I've just been trying to keep my head above water with the depressing slog that this semester has been. I still loathe and despise all of my classes and my teachers, and I already know that my 4.0 is shot. I still haven't started my final paper for Poli-Sci - the 12-pager. In fact, I have an appointment with my Poli-Sci prof on Thursday, specifically because I think he wants to ream me a new asshole for challenging him in class today. Hey, I think it's valid to ask why it is that, 3/4 through the semester in a class called 'The Political World' we haven't once learned anything about, oh, the rest of the world. Hey, fucker - if you wanted to teach 'The Political World of Dr. X', you should have fucking written that in the catalog, you asshole.
I want this semester to be over.
And I'm more than a little freaked out by what I might be getting myself in for for next semester.
Not to mention all the little details about my prospective plans for the future that I haven't even come close to addressing.
I could go on and on and on...
And I'm not gonna.
Bleah.
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Date: 2004-11-17 06:06 am (UTC)Good luck with your German expressionists.
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Date: 2004-11-17 07:22 am (UTC)Any chance one of yur friends could smuggle a catalog to me...?
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Date: 2004-11-17 08:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-17 06:42 pm (UTC)Hey, lemme know when you want to see Paradise Lost. :)