Feh.

[kitsap_charles]

It's almost time to register for the next (and FINAL!!) quarter of classes.

The good news is that the two classes I really want, C/C++ Programming and Introduction to TCP/IP, are both being offered next quarter. The bad news is that one is from 8:00-10:00 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday (plus an hour on Friday, 9:00-10:00), and the other is at 6:00-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

That's right, kids: I'll be on campus for TWELVE AND A HALF FRIGGING HOURS twice a week. Plus travel time (bus, bus, ferry), which means I won't be getting home until eleven-ish at night. And I'll be waking at four-thirty ack-emma. Bleh.

Oh, well... at least the class for which I hope to be the lab aide (and thereby earn my Internship credits) is also on Tuesday-Thursday. And I'll have Monday and Wednesday to myself, unless I have to serve as an aide on those days as well. (I need three credits of Internship; each credit requires 33 hours of time on the job, which means 99 hours for the entire quarter. The quarter is nominally 11-1/2 weeks, from January 5 to March 24, but the last week is consumed by finals. So I'll have about 10 weeks to garner those 99 work hours, or basically 10 hours per week if nothing goes wrong. And I don't know if there'll be enough need for lab time in the Cisco class to justify my putting in that much time as an aide. Sigh.)

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

The final quarter can be a real bastard.

Cause I been there, done that, learned what I should know,
Got the footprints on my T-shirt, got the bruises I can show.
Yes I been there, done that, learned to recognize
When it's time to call for backup by the frenzy in their eyes.

-- Cat Faber (Echo's Children)

Sympathies!

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

Sounds a lot like the hours Woof was putting in while he was in school and working full time. At least you can get the two classes you really want. So often school will not schedule the one you want at all, cancel it due to low registration, or put the two at the same time so that you have to make a really hard choice.

Re: Sympathies!

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

He'd signed up for at least one of these (TCP/IP) before, and had it cancelled. In fact, it might have been *twice* before. I sure hope he gets it this time.

Re: Sympathies!

[kitsap_charles]

…cancel it due to low registration…

That happened to three of the classes I wanted this quarter, at literally the last minute. I found out on the first day of class that I'd need to scramble for credits. Fortunately, I was able to find enough to keep me in full-time status and make progress on my degree, but it was a damned close-run thing.

Oh, and my daily schedule which had me in class from 8:00 to noon at the latest, with the afternoons completely free for getting a job or doing stuff? Now it's 8:00-10:00 Tu/Th, noon-4:30 M/W, and 9:00-10:00 plus noon-1:00 Friday. Yech.

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

My heart, would it help if I were the one to get up at 4:30, not you? Would it help to take a car over (well, probably not...)? Would it help to have a friend with whom you could crash? Would it help to be able to take your supper? How can I make this easier on you, beloved?

[codevixen.livejournal.com]

Hey - you'll be on campus at the same time as me. (Japanese, sci building, 6:00-8:20PM Tue/Thur) Huge chances for meet-up-and-talk, especially since I usually get there twenty minutes early. If you want.

[kitsap_charles]

Yes, that would be nice. Unless my internship schedule dictates otherwise, I'll probably be in the library until shortly before six.

Unless the evening course gets cancelled again due to not enough students registering for it. Bleh.