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Originally Posted by cyberina  Nah.. Haven't really talked about the why's behind my classload.
I'm just now finishing the end of my 3rd year of school. My degree plan is a 4.5 year degree if you take an average of 16 hours a semester. I've varied between 13 and 19 semester hours. I've done 19 once before at the tail end of my core classes (biology and psych classes out the wazoo), and yes it was hard, but that was 2 years ago, and life was much different then. I still got straight As.
The reason that I piled so many on this semester is because I'm in the final semester of all of my multi-semester classes, which was enough to fill a load on their own. Then, a lot of my required classes that only come around once in a blue moon came available this semester, too. Viola... Huge classload.
My final two semesters I can get away with 15 or less easy... Even retaking the classes I am dropping this semester. |
ooff girl, sounds like terrible class timing! why is it a 4.5 year plan? and do you never do summer sessions? i did 12 hours each regular semester, plus 1 class each summer session, and i was done in 5 years. whats your major?
also, what is it that you want to do in grad school? i'm finishing up my first year on a master's degree through an online school called Capella University. i'm not sure how different online grad courses are from physically attending grad courses, but i can tell you right now full time grad school plus full-time work=absolutely NO FUN! full-time in grad is only 2 classes; i did that my first quarter and in the last week broke the fuck down at work. wound up sobbing in my boss' office for a good half hour, and had to go home early because i couldn't pull myself together. god that was so embarrassing.
anyways, my point is: its great that you're so dedicated to achieving these degrees, but it is NOT great to kill yourself trying to get them. try to lessen the load as much as you will allow, because it only gets harder and more stressful as you move up the Higher Education ladder.
BEST OF LUCK DUDE!!