20 credits next semester? Me so crazy...

[bicentennial_baby]

I know I must be certifiable, but it looks like I'm taking 20 credits next fall, in addition to my 10-15 hours a week of tutoring appointments. Sigh...

Intermediate French I
French Film and Language
Queer Literature
American Politics
Art History II
Intercultural Communication

I think I'll start stocking up on strong coffee now...hey, who needs sleep anyway? :shrug:

[LynzM]

1. Sounds about right

I had lots of 18-21 credit semesters. Stock up on coffee, make good friends in some classes so you can skip a few to nap and make up for it, and remember that this, too, shall pass. Good luck!

[hippiepunk]

2. Ouch..

that's quite a load.

Edit: I can't type

[Fridays Child]

3. To be young (sigh)...

I took eighteen hours one semester, back when I was in my 30s, and it wore me out.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Heh...I'm 28

I was a late starter, and believe me, I wish I had the energy of some of my 16-18 year old classmates!

[taught_me_patience]

5. "queer literature"

:wtf:


nothing like that when I was in college!


taught.

[Arkana]

6. Here's my junior year fall semester:

Computer Architecture
Discrete Data Structures
Biomedical Ethics
Foundations of Theology
Elementary Italian I

Oh yeah, it's gonna be a fun year...

BTW, what's "Queer Literature?"

[bicentennial_baby]

7. ooh, have fun in italian!

I might take elementary italian I over the summer, if I don't go to France.

Queer Lit is a course that focuses both on works by queer authors and on works that deal with issues specific to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people.

[Arkana]

8. Oh, cool!

I go to Providence College...Roman Catholic, run by the Dominican Order. The chances of a class like that ever appearing here are about as good as a snowball's in Hell.

[bicentennial_baby]

10. Your profile says you're a fellow Masshole!

Hail! Hehe...I'm over here in wacky liberal western MA. I'm just cramming all these courses in one semester so I can transfer into UMASS next spring. There's a program through my community college where if I get my associate's with a gpa over 3.0, I get instant admission into UMASS Amherst with a 1/3 tuition reduction and only 2 years to finish my bachelor's. I can't wait to get there, doing a double major in PoliSci and French Language/Culture

[Arkana]

11. A Masshole I am indeed

but I went to RI for skule. :silly:

My mom's from Rhode Island, so she was excited when I picked PC. Where in Western MA do you live?

[bicentennial_baby]

14. Greenfield!

Crossroads of Rts. 91 and 2. Frightfully boring place, but nice scenery!

[SmileyBoy]

9. Jesus Christ... I can barely handle my 12 credits per semester.

I'm on the 12-Credit Plan, and I can barely keep up with that. If I did 20 in a semester, I would go insane.

[amazona]

12. madness

I'm glad I was a simple physics major. All those "soft" subjects require too much paperwork for me! I used to sign up for 18 hours a semester and drop the course that seemed most ridiculous to get down to 15 hours. It worked out fine and I graduated on time but I did take a couple of summer classes to be sure.

One thing my super-smart friend does is she talks to the professors in advance and she finds out the reading material involved, so she can actually get ahead on the reading during the break. You do have time so maybe if you can talk to one or two of these instructors, you can get a heads up. Do you already speak French? Or did you have it in high school? Plan a way to be sure you can speak and hear a lot of French over the summer, that will help you big time.

My idea of "Intercultural Communication" is being able to mumble "Konnichiwa" or "Buenas" or "Bonjour" so I shudder to think what that's about. But it's cool to be super-smart. I admire that!

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Hopefully going to France this summer

I'm a finalist for my school's Travel Abroad Scholarship. I started French in September, and am progressing rapidly. The French film course is actually a 300-level course, but my teacher let me in because she thinks I'm good enough for it and will benefit from it greatly.

[amazona]

15. you'll love it

I speak no French but went there recently on an airfare that made it too cheap to stay home, brought a Rick Steves phrasebook, and had a blast! It is so cool. And if you actually are making an effort to speak French, they're super helpful. They are really tickled when Americans try to speak French. I think I provided more amusement value than anything but someone who can actually speak well is even better. Go for it, I hope you are the winner of the scholarship.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[carpetbagger]

16. It's not that bad.

I had 18 and 19-credit semesters with sometimes four lab science classes, and still had time to drink heavily, sleep in the middle of the day, take road trips, and to have 48 hours nearly every weekend from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon where I didn't touch work, unless it involved music performance.

1st and 2nd years of medical school were the equivalent of 30-credit semesters.

At college orientation, some dean type said you could do all the work of college in an 8-12/1-5, M-F week. I ran into nothing in my three years of college that would negate that argument.

Add the 10-15 hours of tutoring, and you'll probably be working harder than most of your classmates. Watching them fuck around in the middle of the day and having the weekend-starts-noon-thursday mentality will be the hardest part, not the work itself.

[NoodleBoy]

17. no more supersemesters for me

one semester I took 15 credits (3 condensed 5 credit math classes lasting 6 weeks each), the next I took 16 because I thought I needed to load up to graduate. Turns out, I could have taken 12 or 13 last semester and would have only to take 9 or 10 credits this semester, but no one told me that when I registered, and I paid for not asking by D'ing a course and having to retake it.

So now I'm transferring to a real university, where I am not taking anything more then 12 credits for my first couple semesters. I might get adventurous and try another 15 credit semester after that, but that depends on if I kick ass.

Good thing is, I won't have any gen ed classes to take anymore, which means straight PoliSci and History, and I've rarely gotten a B in any of those classes.

All I can say to you is.... buy stock in No-Doz. Or start using speed. Just kidding. Although a friend of mine did have a teacher who confessed to him that in college he took speed and was able to do mountains of classwork.

When he wasn't freaking out, that is.

But drugs are bad.

[amazona]

18. drugs are bad but

for "long sleepers" they are the only realistic alternative. A person can be a smart, aware person but if their genetics says they must sleep 10 hours a day, they are screwed in the liberal arts or in medical school based on my observations.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[NoodleBoy]

20. DON'T SAY THAT!

I need around ten hours a day, but have slowly been bringing that number down. Like today I only slept about seven hours and I'm alright.

Damnit.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. At my college, 16 credits was part-time, and we needed permission for it.

I had 20-21 credits every semester, except my first one - I had 18.

We needed 180 credits over 9 semesters (plus one more semester to write the four credit thesis) to graduate.

When I went to grad school, I was taking 12-15 credits and having an awful time - then I started taking 16-18 credits, and did much better.

I found the extra stress of having a lot to do made me buckle down and do all the work. Otherwise, I wasted too much time saying "I can do that tomorrow".

I think you'll love your 20 credit semester!

But even if you don't, I wish you great luck! Adding in the tutoring time will make it a very full workload indeed.

[NoodleBoy]

21. you're insane... what degree did you get?