Well as most 0f you know I plan to graduate this summer (August). I got approved for 19 hours (max w/o approval is 15 hours) and so far I am signed up for 16 hours.
I need to find a professor in the Political Science department to do an independent study course with to get credit for the second half of the government requirement. They have had many faculty leave lately and it has been difficult. I e-mail all the profs that have an interest in American politics because it has to be an American topic to get credit. No one had mailed me back.
That is issue one.
Because I am taking so many hours, the price tag is enormous! So far the tally is over $3,000. I have a grant for $750 and I am waiting to hear on another $400 one. I wish they gave out more money for summer school! The other class I need will be another $600 to the bill. Last summer I got close to $2000, I wonder what happened?
If I cannot scrounge up the money or approval for a loan or get a government class going I will have to go ANOTHER semester. In one way I would not mind; I have become a “career” student and the thought of getting a real jobs scares the bejesus out of me.
On the other hand, I have senior-idus really bad, of which the only cure is to graduate. That mainly comes from the lack of learning I have been doing the lat 2 semesters. After 2.5 years of school, they stopped teaching me anything new. No matter what class I am in, the topic is something I already know.
That sounded really uppity after re-reading it, but it is true. I am not trying to toot my own horn at all, I am just board as hell with school. MMmmmmm Grad school!
Well I do not know if I should start the loan paperwork now or if I should wait till I know if I can get a government class. Suggestions?
April 22nd, 2006 at 7:48 am
That’s a toughie. Of course Dean did that super-tough last semester of 19 hours. But if you spread out the classses into the fall, wouldn’t that actually work better for timing with Dean being at kind of a “stopping place” in the game for possible change in job and even relocation? And if you graduate in December, wouldn’t that still be “on time” or even early, considering when you started? Perhaps the senioritis wouldn’t be so severe if you didn’t push yourself trying to finish this summer. What about if you took the bulk of your remaining classes in the fall, and treated yourself to an easy summer? Maybe even a part-time summer job as a contrast to the non-stop academic push?
April 22nd, 2006 at 7:50 am
P.S. Didn’t you say you saved a lot of lower-level basic courses to the end? Maybe that’s why you feel you’re not learning much new at this point — if most of your hardest classes are behind you.
April 22nd, 2006 at 10:41 am
Well Dean will be 100% done with the game in one of the J months (June or July I can never keep it straight!).
I dropped a class in May I wanted to tae about the politics of the abortion debate and put in a political science class I needed. I REALLY wanted to do that class so I e-mailed the prof and ask her if I could do it as a special problems class in summer I. Her and I will get together this next week to discuss it!
Dean had it a bit harder at 21 hours his last semester, I would get 3 semester to split them up: 3 hours in May, 9 hours in Summer I, 7 hours in summer II.
Yeah I started in Fall 2002 so graduating this summer would be 5 months early if 4 years is the norm (which I think 4.5 to 5 years is what most are doing these days).
If she says yes to the special problems/independent study then I can graduate this August. I hope she does agree to do it!