Well, the bright side is that I got a spot on the Jubilee Fellows program! Yippee! :) I'm looking forward to the learning and growing that will happen through that seminar & internship.
On the not-so-bright side, I'm trying to figure out my schedule for the next semester (and inevitably, that involves figuring out the rest of my college career--when it's best to take what) and I can't say that it's much fun.
It's especially difficult, because I am doing my student teaching during the Spring of 09, which means that there are absolutely no other classes that I can take during that time, except the required concurrent Ed seminar.
The pickins are slim at this end of the college lump, that's for sure, and I'm trying to avoid taking very similar classes in the same semester (ie, American Lit I/Am Lit II or Linguistics/Sociolinguistics) which only complicates things further.
Not to mention that I'm not looking forward to Shakespeare (read: lots and lots of reading) so I've put that on the end of my list, and I'm still trying to figure out whether it's possible for me to take all FIVE FALL-ONLY classes during the fall of 2008, or if there will be scheduling conflicts that will force a few more credits onto Fall 2009, which I've recently accepted as fate.
So long, May '09 graduation. It was nice hoping for you. Looks like I'll be doing a victory lap around here. Maybe I should do two or three victory laps! :P Ha.
That said, at the moment I'm quite perturbed at the fact that I'm looking at 20 credits for this coming Spring, (including J.Fellows) which is actually quite ridiculous, considering that I'm a Barnabas as well, and I can't imagine that there's even actually time left in my schedule to get close to the "15 hours a week" we shoot for. I'm pretty sure something will have to go, or I'll go insane (or at least seriously hurt my lovely 3.6 GPA which I've had for this long, so why would I give it up now?)
If anything, I'm avoiding 8am classes. The least I can do is help myself get sleep.
Oh, and if anyone is wondering, Jubilee Fellows really doesn't change scheduling one bit. I'd still have to do at least an extra semester, and the program is helping out in other ways.
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It's almost impossible to get out of Calvin as an ed. major in 4 years. I was one of the last to do it, but then again, I took 3 summers of classes so technically I didn't. All I can say, is, embrace it! I missed Calvin a lot that first year or two out. I wouldn't have minded having an extra year there. And, it's much easier to not have to look for a teaching job in the midst of student teaching. You can sub, do Resumes and work on the job in Spring of 2010 if you want. Man, that sounds far away, but really it's not. Good luck with scheduling! -Becky
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