Today I went to the academic counselor to talk about officially changing my major from English Education to the composite major of English Education/ Creative Writing. I've been planning on doing this for quite some time. As soon as I heard that the composite major would be offered I jumped right on that wagon. I had some concerns about changing catalogs, because when I started at SUU it didn't exist yet. I like to plan my future. I mean, this isn't weird in and of itself. Lots of people go to get counseling about their academic careers, right?
The weird thing is I have spent hours upon hours pondering my schedule for the next 2 1/2 years. I should be graduating after the Fall semester of 2013 if all goes according to plan. (Woohoo!) Anyway, I have a color coated schedule that I organized that tells me what classes I will be taking what semester so that I can graduate by then. I created the original schedule about 1 1/2 years ago, but it has undergone many revisions. I just can't go with the flow. I have to know what I am taking when! I didn't need any prompting at all to create this schedule. I just did it.
My problem is that as soon as I decide on this schedule, some loophole is thrown in my path. Usually it is a schedule conflict. I love SUU and all, but at times it drive me crazy. Because of the small size of the school, classes (except for the GE classes) are only offered one time; if you can't do it that one time, well then, no class for you! Of course, there are also tons of great benefits of having such a small university. But when it comes to my organizational ways being disrupted, I forget all of those benefits and just want to pull my hair out.
Another problem that disrupts my planning is that I just want to do too much. If I could I would go to school for forever and just keep learning and learning and learning. I want to do more than just the basics while in school. I want to get the best experience possible. This results in my schedule being full and sometimes overflowing. I haven't had a semester with less than 17 credits. Am I crazy for that? Maybe. But I'm okay with that. I love being busy.
Anyway, I pray that the schedule I have now will not be disrupted again. My brain can only handle so much change when it comes to my school schedule. I am also planning on making an effort to keep my extra curricular activities to a manageable level so I don't fall over and die of exhaustion while working on school.
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You're not crazy. I did the same thing in college. I tried to plan and make sure I'd graduate when I wanted to an took 18 credit hours a semester. And now that I'm graduated, I wish I had taken more classes and done more.
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