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textualdevianceOne of the downsides to an otherwise-happy marriage? When you're upset and arguing, the first person you can think of to run to for comfort is the person you're arguing with.
Wasn't really an argument, though. Just my semi-annual late-night paranoid freakout, and his (understandable) impatience with that. The net result is that he probably didn't sleep well. And I know I didn't. I was up half the night sorting through some stuff because I was too wired to sleep. Which sucks because I have to drive tonight and then get up at the asscrack of dawn.
I'm heading up tonight to stay overnight because I have orientation tomorrow. This one is transfer-specific, so I won't be flooded with freshmen, but I'll probably be one of the few postbacs there. This is going to sort of be my trial by fire to see if I can really deal with the atmosphere there (hence said freakout.)
A big part of the session is advising -- one with a general adviser, the other with the department. That should be amusing. They finally put out the 05-06 class schedule, and so I started assembling a potential schedule, and found that it's going to be a giant pain in the ass.
First, there's no way for me to have an officially full-time schedule with just journo classes because of scheduling and pre-reqs and all that. The most I can manage is 11 credits, rather than the 12 I need to be considered officially full-time. Which means no student loans unless I can come up with other classes. But because the student loan stuff won't pay for classes which are not part of a specific degree program, I can't put in filler classes. My only maybe option is to go for that Psych minor. And the problem with that is how fucked up that class schedule is compared to the journo one.
I'd been hoping to avoid the stress and expense of getting an apartment up there by giving myself a MWF schedule, so I could come home every day. Since none of my classes would start earlier than 10, and most terms would be far later than that, I could handle a commute three days a week. (My biggest concern is traffic through Everett; rush hour can turn a 1:15 trip into 2 hours.) But the psych classes I'd need are all T/Th, or otherwise conflict with my J classes. I've been playing musical chairs with the schedule, trying to make it all fit, but no go. There will be at least three, if not all five terms where I have a M-F schedule with no way around it. If I do journo-only, there's only one term with that problem, but then I have several terms with few classes. One only would have two.
Of course, taking few classes would work in terms of my having more free time, and in terms of not being so expensive, since it's doubtful I'm going to get the student loans in any case (I certainly wouldn't get them for the first term, since I won't have been admitted to the major yet.)
The real bitch is that I have five terms required to work on the campus publications. And since they have the same schedule, there's no way to shrink that down. So I'm stuck doing a minimum of the five terms, plus the internship.
All this meaning that I may be taking 1-3 classes per term until March 2007.
Oi.
I guess what I can't decide is what makes more sense: saving the money and commuting three days a week in perpetuity, or filling out my schedule and getting the apartment so I won't be driving constantly.
Cheaper and more time with Mike, but a lot of driving for few classes.
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Expensive, and little time with Mike, but a fuller education and no driving.
Of course, with my luck, what's going to happen is that I bring in my transcripts tomorrow and they tell me I need to go back and do Math requirements after all, or some other horrible thing.
Wasn't really an argument, though. Just my semi-annual late-night paranoid freakout, and his (understandable) impatience with that. The net result is that he probably didn't sleep well. And I know I didn't. I was up half the night sorting through some stuff because I was too wired to sleep. Which sucks because I have to drive tonight and then get up at the asscrack of dawn.
I'm heading up tonight to stay overnight because I have orientation tomorrow. This one is transfer-specific, so I won't be flooded with freshmen, but I'll probably be one of the few postbacs there. This is going to sort of be my trial by fire to see if I can really deal with the atmosphere there (hence said freakout.)
A big part of the session is advising -- one with a general adviser, the other with the department. That should be amusing. They finally put out the 05-06 class schedule, and so I started assembling a potential schedule, and found that it's going to be a giant pain in the ass.
First, there's no way for me to have an officially full-time schedule with just journo classes because of scheduling and pre-reqs and all that. The most I can manage is 11 credits, rather than the 12 I need to be considered officially full-time. Which means no student loans unless I can come up with other classes. But because the student loan stuff won't pay for classes which are not part of a specific degree program, I can't put in filler classes. My only maybe option is to go for that Psych minor. And the problem with that is how fucked up that class schedule is compared to the journo one.
I'd been hoping to avoid the stress and expense of getting an apartment up there by giving myself a MWF schedule, so I could come home every day. Since none of my classes would start earlier than 10, and most terms would be far later than that, I could handle a commute three days a week. (My biggest concern is traffic through Everett; rush hour can turn a 1:15 trip into 2 hours.) But the psych classes I'd need are all T/Th, or otherwise conflict with my J classes. I've been playing musical chairs with the schedule, trying to make it all fit, but no go. There will be at least three, if not all five terms where I have a M-F schedule with no way around it. If I do journo-only, there's only one term with that problem, but then I have several terms with few classes. One only would have two.
Of course, taking few classes would work in terms of my having more free time, and in terms of not being so expensive, since it's doubtful I'm going to get the student loans in any case (I certainly wouldn't get them for the first term, since I won't have been admitted to the major yet.)
The real bitch is that I have five terms required to work on the campus publications. And since they have the same schedule, there's no way to shrink that down. So I'm stuck doing a minimum of the five terms, plus the internship.
All this meaning that I may be taking 1-3 classes per term until March 2007.
Oi.
I guess what I can't decide is what makes more sense: saving the money and commuting three days a week in perpetuity, or filling out my schedule and getting the apartment so I won't be driving constantly.
Cheaper and more time with Mike, but a lot of driving for few classes.
-or-
Expensive, and little time with Mike, but a fuller education and no driving.
Of course, with my luck, what's going to happen is that I bring in my transcripts tomorrow and they tell me I need to go back and do Math requirements after all, or some other horrible thing.
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