Another original title :P

I thought I would make an update...or make excuses for not updating...something along those lines.

School is crazy hard right now. I have so little time to be online doing anything "fun", it's just not funny. The scary/sad part is that I think this is only a preview of things to come! I have gotten one grad school application in, am working on three more. When I get into grad school, it will be into an accelerated program for the first year, and then "regular" grad school pace for two-three years after that. I'm afraid my updates my turn out to be instead of every few months, every few years!

Right now I am taking two upper division classes, one lower division class, TA for Microbiology, and doing these grad applications. It sounds like a lot, but it doesn't sound like as much as it actually is. The lower division class is Art History-Renaissance to present with Asian art also. I absolutely love the class, I am learning so much cool stuff, and it really fits with Sociology (my major). Instead of simply learning who did what when (art appreciation) we are learning who did what when, why, and what cultural factors contributed, and why. Nice. But it's hard to keep up on the homework...very hard. We have homework due every Friday online, by 11:59 pm. The problem is that Friday is the only day I have to schedule anything at all that isn't related to school, and it's also the only day to fit that homework in since it's online! I thought of doing the assignments on the weekend, ahead of when they are due, but that doesn't work because I need the class lectures we haven't had yet in order to complete them. *sigh*

Here is how my week goes...Monday get to campus at 730 and meet with Sociology major friend for 15 minutes then go open the Microbiology lab for students from 8-930, go to art hist from10-12, eat ( a must), go to my own upper division Biology lab from 1-345, Bio lecture from 4-515, go home. Tuesday TA in actual Micro lab class from 925-12, run (literally) downstairs for my Bio colloquium lecture series from 12-1, this used to be the end of my day but starting next Tuesday I will then have T at 3. Wednesday is a repeat of Monday except from 1-330 I run Micro lab for students instead of attend my own lab. Thursday is nightmare day! TA Micro from 925-1215, appointment on campus 1-2, used to have T from 3-4 but changing to Tuesday, pick-up partner from work and take her home at 5, rush back to campus for Senior Seminar 6-950 (yes, pm). Keep in mind, my campus is in one town, my home, T, and partner's work are in another! Meanwhile I am doing my senior thesis. It's a Sociological study using my own topic and research, meaning I have to find time to do my research, write up notes, code, and begin figuring out what it all means. So yeah...I am overwhelmed.

I am finding little time to get to others' blogs, let alone do anything with mine. However, I do read all those on my list, usually very early in the morning while procrastinating. Just wanted to let you all know...I do read, though I rarely comment. I am still around, just not in the way I used to be. (aspects of that could be another post completely! Maybe in a few days I can fit that in).

Sera