What am I doing???

Bree has made a great point – along with my parents last night.  I was kind of sick last September as well.  The cause?  School.  of course.  It makes too much sense.  This semester I’m far sicker (I’m guessing) due to the fact that I’m far more stressed.  This semester here are the things I have going on this semester:

• 21 credits of engineering electives/mathematics courses.  This includes such glamorous titles such as “CPU Design Lab”, “Parallel Programming”, “Scientific Visualization”, “Discrete Structures and Mathematics”, “Low Level Computing Systems” and many others.  It’s either that or postpone graduation until a YEAR from December, as opposed to May.  Considering the potential income lost, a conservative price tag for postponing graduation would be in the neighborhood of $19,000 (less taxes).  That puts things into perspective.
• A thesis that I have no clue about.  Enough said.
• Work at 20 hours per week.  Otherwise we lose benefits and tuition reimbursement.  Again a wise investment to keep.
• LotoJa.  At least that day of reckoning is only two weeks out.  Still a little nervous about it, though.

It is obvious that this schedule WILL be detrimental to my health and well being.  I think it’s worth it for just two more semesters though.  I suppose I’ll just have to hold on tight and see how this goes…

~ by bnjmnmrtn on August 30, 2009.