Everything Works Out and I'm Happy

I'm so excited to have finally figured out my schedule! Next semester I'm taking fine arts, group counseling, children's lit (an Ed, not English class), and two English classes (literary studies and Renaissance Brit Lit). Fine arts is my only core class next semester. My group counseling and children's lit classes are one afternoon a week each for three hours. I've never had a three hour class, but my friends who have say it's not as bad as it sounds. Since these classes will be subjects I'm interested in, I'm not too worried. For the first time in my college career, I'm looking forward to all of my classes (yay for only having 4 core classes left!).

Since I couldn't find any classes that interested me that started earlier than 4:10 MWF, I decided to switch from my T/TH multiethnic lit class to an English class that met MWF. My first choice was Contemporary American Lit because am I ilike American Lit, would start earlier, and I'd have the professor I have this semester, whom I really like. Because the class is a 400-level (longer papers and more in-depth research) and my literary studies class will require a fair amount of work, my advisor discouraged me from taking it. On Wednsday, I talked to my current professor and had him tell me about the workload in the class. Even though I would be able to do it if I had to, the workload felt over my head, so I decided that I would wait until after I had taken the literary studies and more 300-level English classes before tackling the challenges of a 400-level class.

I finally settled on Renaissance Brit. Lit (1400-1600). To be honest, I initially wasn't sure how interested I'd be in the class, as I'm more into American Lit. Luckily, I realized that this could be a good class to take before I go to London in the summer, as the readings will relate to a lot of what I'll see/read there. I really love learning about England, and prefer learning about it through literarture rather than a history textbook. I'm required to take three "historical lit classes," with one of them being before 1900, so this class knock one of those three classes out of the way. I start at 11:25 MWF, so I can still sleep in but not feel like I've wasted the whole day. Oh yeah, should I mention that I get to have another class with MY FAVORITE PROFESSOR EVER? That factor alone already makes me excited!

Despite this week being stressful with figuring out classes and having WAY too much to do, I still managed to have fun. Wednsday afternoon I attended a meeting for the Writers journal, a literary magazine that publishes poetry, short stories/essays, and photos, and we may even accept blogs and short plays this year. In Feburary, I'm going to help decide which submissions will go in the magazine. Last night my friends and I went to a "nacho crawl" where we got the different ingredients for nachos from each floor. Tonight was "kiddie night," where we watched Disney movies, played with Play-Doh, fingerpainted, and colored in coloring books. I had a lot of fun, and while I enjoy the freedom of being an adult, I really miss being a kid sometimes, especially when I have so much to do.