It's that time of the semester again, the time when I decide how hellish my life will be for the next 5 months. Time to register for Spring courses. Also, time to meet with my advisor and figure out what i'm going to do with my life. And it's also time to worry and panic about whether or not the University will even let me come back next semester.
So, next semester, I will be taking:
1-Calculus II. For the third time. If I don't get it this time, I'm seriously gonna give up on life.
2-Biochemistry II- Assuming I pass Biochemistry I. Who knew I would ever worry about passing a class more than passing Organic? Certainly not me.
3-Microbiology- Should be fun, at least the lab should be fun. I've heard not so fun stories about the exams.
4-Genetics-Should be the easiest course I've taken in a while. I have a really strong genetics background, and the lab is supposed to be really easy.
The advisor did what he does best and made me feel like this was a huge course load, and started talking about what I could drop in the worst case scenario. I was like, WTF? If I can get through the past couple semesters of hellish course loads, I can get through this. Oh, and thanks for having confidence in my abilities. It's not like I'm at the top of the class in your Cell Biology course or anything. douche.
The advisor was also not as helpful as I had hoped in the grad school planning area. although he did tell me that I should skip the Masters degree and go straight into the PhD. And apparently I'm supposed to take the GRE in May.
I'm realizing more and more each day that I'm only 3 semesters away from graduating (hopefully) and that means 3 semesters closer to the real world. 3 semesters from committing myself to something for 6+ years. Is this even what I want to do? do I want to be in school until I'm 28, probably longer? Can I take this life for that long?
Fucking scary.
I was gonna write about the fact that I'm worried about even being allowed back next semester, and my worries about passing all my courses this semester, but that would involve confronting my fears, which would make them real possibilities. Not gonna happen today.
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I loved micro. Microbiology profs tend to be a bit more dynamic than say, cell biology profs or immunology profs. :D
Genetics rocked my socks. I love genetics. I even ended up taking advanced genetics.
I only took one biochem though. The second one was only given in the summer. Tsk.
If you ever need help with cal, I aced it so I might be able to help somehow. Hopefully, I remember enough. :D (I didn't do so hot in cal 3 though, lol).
And if I could do five third year biologies a semester, I'm sure you can. I'm not all that bright. :D And I definitely have no self-discipline.
Oh and shop around for help. Advisors, in my experience, know next to squat. If I hadn't read the course calendar properly, I might not have graduated based on the advisor's advice.
The life will change. It's not going to be like the undergrad. And trust me, if you stop at the undergrad, you probably won't use it.
(hugs)
Thanks for all the advice and encouragement! I think I'll be alright next semester. my second time around with calc, I didn't pass simply because it was a summer course and they we're compressing a 14 week course into 6 weeks. It was way to fast for me, but I did understand the concepts.
I can't imagine going beyond Calc 2. My brother was a math minor. sometimes I wonder if we are really related, 'cause our talents and interests are so different (he's a mechanical engineering grad student)
Yeah, I only passed cal 3 on the condition that if I ever took any math again, I'd redo cal 3. lol
"Don't go thinking that me passing you means you understand any of it," the prof said. :D
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