registering for classes

[jennickels]

Registration for Term 1 (August 25-October 22) starts today. I had already decided what I was going to take so it was simple.

My scheudle:
Term 5 (now: April 28-June 22): Intro to Sociology (100 level course) and Literary Theory (300 level course)
Term 6 (June 23-August 19): Context of Writing (300 level course) and Digital Photography (200 level course)
Term 1 (August 25- October 21): Fiction Writing workshop (300 level course) and The English Language (300 level course)

My head is spinning. The classes only get harder after that
Term 2 (October 27-December 23): probably Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop (300 level) and not sure
Term 3 (January 5-March 3): Advanced Fiction Writing Workship (300 level) and (probably) Popular/Contemporary Fiction (300 level)
Term 3 (March 9-May 5): New Media Writing/Publishing (400 level) and ??

The other 2 courses I need are a 400 level Lit course (I'm going with American Lit) and a 400 level interdisciplinary course about how things today will affect our future (or something to that effect).

If I don't freak out and drop to part time I will graduate in May 2015 with the rest of the school.

But right now I'm seriously doubting my ability to handle all the stress. I worked on Sociology a the library today. Got first part of reading done and a quiz. Then I tried to work on my paper. Then next two hours I grew more and more frantic as I understood it less and less. Then I spent the next three hours on the verge of tears. Ugh. I also have a Lit paper to write on The Great Gatsby due Sunday.

My homework/assignments for this week:

• Read 2 chapters of Literary Theory (psychoanalysis and Marxist Criticism) which is 70 pages.


• Read 130 pages of Ceremony


• Read 32 pages of Sociology text


• Create post in Sociology discussing the text due Thursday


• Create post in Lit using one of the new Criticisms we learned to discuss a passage from Ceremony due Thursday


• Watch 3 short videos in Sociology and take quizzes after due Sunday


• Read a short paper in Sociology


• Write paper about how social structure and my family shaped my socialization process (no clue) due Sunday


• Write short paper analyzing The Great Gatsby using either reader-response, Psychoanalytical or Marxist criticisms due Sunday

So far I've read the first chapter 14 pages of Sociology and taken 1 quiz and tried to figure out the Sociology paper. I spent all day at the library doing this. I've read the chapter on psychoanalysis and 63 pages of Ceremony.

I'm becoming way overloaded already and these are "easy" classes. Ugh.

Tomorrow I have to take Brenna and Nora to school for "Muffins With Mom" at 8am. After I'm supposed to go to the library to spend the entire day working. Part of me wants to drive way up into the hills to Dougan Falls (hopefully there won't be a ton of people there until it gets hot--maybe in the 90s tomorrow) and just read and relax. Sigh.

Next week it more of the same except I have to come up with an annotated bibliography or the final paper on Ceremony even though I have no idea what I'm going to write about.

And all I really want to do is write. But there's no time. Or when I do have time, I'm too tired to concentrate.