Many of you have been patiently reading all my whiny posts about school for a while now. However, here’s the last pre-fall semester update you will have to endure!
Huzzah!!
The Stickittoyou U academic calendar tells me I have just 70 instructional days in this, my last, fall semester.
After this fall then, naturally will follow my last spring semester, which apparently is 72 instructional days long. Why the difference you might reasonably ask? Don’t. It isn’t reasonable or logical. But the long and the short of it is that I am just 142 days of class away from completing my Bachelors of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology and my Bachelors of Arts in Biochemistry and being a bona fide college graduate. By May 6th, or possibly sooner, I will be done with college.
Unless of course I do get into the Integrated Biosciences Cell, Molecular and Physiological Graduate Studies Program I’m applying for, but in that instance I will also be getting paid so I have high hopes I will feel a little more like a real person and less like a whiny college student. Or at least that’s what I tell myself so I actually can pretend to be excited about more college education.
Anyway, I digress. This is about my last fall semester as an undergraduate student which begins tomorrow, Monday, August 31st. My personal D-Day of education. A day that will live in infamy. Or soon be forgotten in a mushroom cloud of homework. I am both petrified and excited about tomorrow.
It seems like the entire university has picked up on my eagerness to be done. Normally, fall semester doesn’t begin until after the Labor Day holiday, which, my dear overseas friends, is the first Monday in September. Stickittoyou U has decided, in their infinite wisdom, that the semester will start before Labor Day this year. Who knows why. But the calendar does allow for a four day weekend in October labeled so euphemistically as Fall Break and a four day weekend for Thanksgiving a month later. I think I will need both those long weekends. This is my course roster:
Biochemistry
Biochemistry Lab
Genetics
Genetics Lab
Virology
Virology Lab
Note, there is no physics or math courses included in this semester’s schedule. I am officially done with *all* my math and physics requirements. I am so very, very happy. Can you see this big stupid grin on my face? Can you see the happy dance I’m doing? No doubt there will be some sneaky biochem and genetics math creeping in now and then, but did I mention I am officially finished with my math and physics requirements? From here through next spring I will only be taking biology and biochem courses. I fully expect to be completely and utterly overwhelmed by 10am tomorrow, but it will be in the thick of the stuff I have been wanting to study since I first decided to take this plunge into the realm of real science.
So, I fully expect there to be a bit of ongoing whining, but hopefully it will be the kind that stems from having not enough time to read that extra chapter or do one more homework because it’s just so damned interesting and down right fun. Hey, a girl can dream, right?
Oh, and fair warning, most posts will probably include a count down of those 142 instructional days. It’s a BIG FREAKIN DEAL after all.
Well, happy Sunday to you all. I am going to go celebrate my impending first day of class by- can you guess?- doing some of the homework assignments that have already been assigned.
No joking around.
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