I have rough mornings but I am settled into my classes and have my ■■■■ together. How are you all? @elizabeth, @CarolineC, whoever else is in school?
Class starts Monday the 22nd. One online class. I just want it to start already. It’s basically my last easy class before I have to take math, physical science, and communication.
Im in communication right now, it is easy for me because I am egotistical and have lots of confidence. For our first speech, I did not rehearse or have an outline, I just got up and rambled about lifting weights and got a B+ because I said the words “um” and “like” too many times. I saw my grading rubric, he gave it to me, and I did really well in everything but apparently said “um” and “like” and “but, uh…” too many times to have recieved an A
See, I don’t have confidence. So I’m naturally “one down” from 80% of the population at the get go. It doesn’t make me think anyone is braver when they take advantage of my lack. Anyway, I just went for a walk in the park and I’m a little wound up. Trying to de-pressurize.
This semester has been particularly rough for me. My classes are non stop all day from 10 am to around 6 pm on Mon and Tues, and 10 am-9 pm on Wednesday. But I’m barely taking any credits so I have no idea how that happened. It’s just because they’re all so far apart that the bus eats up all my extra time.
I’m just exhausted. I’ve been completely antisocial with my friends all week because they don’t understand that I HAVE to do everything as soon as I get it or else my anxiety will spiral out of control. It’s upsetting because there’s all this fun stuff I want to do with them that I just don’t have time for.
It’s Saturday and I’m still not even close to being finished with all my work. I have probably around 4-5 hours of it left.
I’m excited about this semester; I’m feeling pretty optimistic. I have an assignment due October 3rd which I started (and plan to work on today). I also have lots of reading to do, that will probably take most of my time up today.
I have one class that’s online some weeks, and in class some weeks. This upcoming week we “meet” online. I did 1/3 parts of it. Fortunately my job allows me to do homework while I’m working, since it’s a quiet time for us right now. So that’s where I do a lot of the work for that hybrid online/in face class.
I have to do some observations this semester, so on Monday I will have to call some audiologist’s and see if I can schedule a time to meet with them and sit in on a few sessions they have with patients.
I’m just a bit worried because I feel so tired. I slept 14 hours last night and I STILL feel tired. I hope I don’t fall asleep while doing readings or something today. I really want to stay on top of my work. I start off strong most semesters and fizzle out within a few weeks. I don’t want that to happen again. My therapist gave me some good techniques to cope with the stress, and my pdoc gave me a sleeping pill to help regulate my sleep. Maybe I’ll start that tonight.
I always did well in public speaking, I have no idea why. I think my eagerness to do well had a lot to do with it. I use interjections like that a lot in my normal speech but when I speak in public I’m pretty formal and clear. Are you happy with the B+?
I’m only taking 2 classes, so I’m only slightly in college right now. Next semester I’ll be at a bigger school, living on my own, and taking classes full time. This semester I have a math which I’m prepared for (it’s a professor teaching, not some grad student like at the school I’m going back to) and a business class which is conquerable. I still work. I’m on SSI. I’m somewhat ignoring the dating site I’m on, because it’s more fun to look for houses to rent than (or is it “then”?) guys to date.
I am very nervous about this semester. There are so many tests and quizzes, and many of them are piled on top of one another. I am taking Statistics, Intro to Biopsychology, Drugs Behavior and the Brain, and the Psychology of Learning. I think I did poorly on my Drugs exam. I’m calculating that I got an 84%, but I won’t know for sure until Monday. I got 100% out of 110% on my Psychology of Learning quiz, and I got 9/10 on my Intro to Biopsychology quiz. These quizzes are really more like tests. There is a lot of reading involved. I am behind in my Statistics readings. I just have to read for my tests and quizzes, and it’s taking up all of my time. Sometimes I just feel like I want to curl up in a ball and die. But I realize I have to study in order to have a hope of getting a good grade, which will be good for scholarships, and getting into a good grad school. But it certainly doesn’t leave me much room to be on this forum. I usually quite enjoy this forum, but this semester I am just knocked out with studying and tests and quizzes.
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Yeah but I felt like I deserved an A- lol. You might want to drink more caffeine if you are sleeping too much- I sleep a lot and drink tons of caffeine.
However it was a TA and he said it was his first time teaching and that was the first grade he had ever given, so of course it was a B+ lol
Sounds like you are taking some hard classes right now. Ive taken statistics, intro to neuroscience, and drug behavior, the same ones. They were not walks in the park. I was in the honors section of intro to neuro and also drug behavior
I want to finish my Audiology reading tonight so I can focus on Speech Pathology tomorrow. But it’s 15 pages left, and it’s all neuroanatomy. So confusing when I’m not looking at the brain to go along with the words. I’m thinking I can find a better resource than my textbook.
I’m glad I’m not in the honors section in these classes. I can’t imagine them being any more difficult. Good for you for having done well in them.
I had to drop the creative writing class… Between the Chem class with lab and my job that is still giving me over time… I already knew I was having a hard time keeping up.
I’d rather get A’s one class at a time then rush it through and get two C’s.
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I took off until my next session which starts in October. I will officially be full time status. I’m taking Intro to Java Programming 1 and User Interface Design. I’m really looking forward to this session. I’m finally getting into my major. I’ve taken pieces here and there, but will really focus now my general classes are through. I graduate next August if I’m able to keep my current course load. It’s exciting yet scary. I still battle everyday and when I get done school I only have 6 months before I have to start paying back my loans. 
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