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olorielYay, I have a schedule.
In one way, I love making my schedule for the new term. Everything's still full of opportunities and shiny excitement and good intentions.
About as long until I open uk-online - the university's registering system on the web - and sift through the list of courses and find that a) there are none that I really want to attend, b) there are a few that I really want to attend but that won't get me further, c) there are some that I want to attend and that actually will get me further, but they're all at impossible times, or, if they're at decent times, they're all at the same time, d) there are some that I want to attend and that will get me further and that are at decent and distinct times, but they're all full.
Frustration.
I now have a schedule. It's a lot of compromising as every year. It has 18 hours of classes per week, if I get into the class I only made the waiting list for, and if I'm actually going to attend all of those classes until the end of term.
That's another thing that frustrates me. SWS (Semesterwochenstunden, the amount of hours you spend in classes per week per semester). I usually end up with a total of something between 15 and 20 (I had 22 one time, although I didn't actually attend that one lecture after the first few times..., and only 12 another). 20-24 is officially supposed to be a good sum. According to the student representatives, 12-15 is healthy. As I have to work 20 hours a week, I rather tend to agree with that. (I did before I had to work, and now I definitely do.) So my 18's somewhere in the middle.
One of those seminars is from 6 to 8pm, which is a time I decided I'd never take classes at. But if I didn't take that one, I'd have only one Japanese class - the one I have to repeat because I failed the exam last year, moreover. And the only alternative to the late one would be one starting at 8:30 am, which is not a time at which I am capable of reading, translating and/or understanding Japanese texts. Even though that's the class I still have to take at some point, and the late one isn't. But I can't deal with anything much more complicated than breakfast at 8:30 am, I really can't. So it'll be another seminar instead of a reading course, and the hope that there'll be a reading course at a more civilized time next semester.
*sighs*
Bah.
But! At least the Creative Writing class is at a just-so bearable time this year. And because it rarely is, I'll take that as a hint and just take it, damnit.
In one way, I love making my schedule for the new term. Everything's still full of opportunities and shiny excitement and good intentions.
About as long until I open uk-online - the university's registering system on the web - and sift through the list of courses and find that a) there are none that I really want to attend, b) there are a few that I really want to attend but that won't get me further, c) there are some that I want to attend and that actually will get me further, but they're all at impossible times, or, if they're at decent times, they're all at the same time, d) there are some that I want to attend and that will get me further and that are at decent and distinct times, but they're all full.
Frustration.
I now have a schedule. It's a lot of compromising as every year. It has 18 hours of classes per week, if I get into the class I only made the waiting list for, and if I'm actually going to attend all of those classes until the end of term.
That's another thing that frustrates me. SWS (Semesterwochenstunden, the amount of hours you spend in classes per week per semester). I usually end up with a total of something between 15 and 20 (I had 22 one time, although I didn't actually attend that one lecture after the first few times..., and only 12 another). 20-24 is officially supposed to be a good sum. According to the student representatives, 12-15 is healthy. As I have to work 20 hours a week, I rather tend to agree with that. (I did before I had to work, and now I definitely do.) So my 18's somewhere in the middle.
One of those seminars is from 6 to 8pm, which is a time I decided I'd never take classes at. But if I didn't take that one, I'd have only one Japanese class - the one I have to repeat because I failed the exam last year, moreover. And the only alternative to the late one would be one starting at 8:30 am, which is not a time at which I am capable of reading, translating and/or understanding Japanese texts. Even though that's the class I still have to take at some point, and the late one isn't. But I can't deal with anything much more complicated than breakfast at 8:30 am, I really can't. So it'll be another seminar instead of a reading course, and the hope that there'll be a reading course at a more civilized time next semester.
*sighs*
Bah.
But! At least the Creative Writing class is at a just-so bearable time this year. And because it rarely is, I'll take that as a hint and just take it, damnit.
