Techosaurus

^^Part of my hypothetical fall schedule.

I’m in a bit of a pickle right now. I just registered 12 credits in fall semester (which is still about 3 months away). Following my usual habit, i lay everything out on a calendar thinking of everything normal that I will need to do every week. I lay out all of my classes including room numbers, sleep times, study times, work times, etc. Then I do some math about income, macro schedule (how long it’s going to take me to finish my degree, etc), and micro schedule (daily timing). I have pretty much narrowed it down to three major issues that need to be planned out before the fall semester ever starts: Money, Time, and Sanity.

My goal is to retain full time school status, and hopefully full time work status, but this will be difficult on the time and sanity requirement. After I laid everything out on the calendar, I came out with about 3 hrs of down time on school days, and about 45 minutes of down time on work days. That isn’t very much, even by swamped college student standards. This crazy busy schedule gets time and money out of the way, but I’m worried my sanity would go out the window after a few weeks of this. Not to mention, this all hinges on my work giving me the schedule that I need to even take these classes. Right now I have Sundays and Mondays off, but in order to even take some of the classes that I require, I would NEED to have Tuesdays and Thursdays off, so the Time aspect in this situation isn’t fully resolved yet.

Some would say that the answer to all of these problems is easy, get a part time job, sell your car, and focus on school. I did entertain this idea in my head for a bit. The problem is that I have a sought after, hard to get job, in my field of interest. Right now I’m getting experience in the same field as my degree, which means that I will graduate with real life experience on my resume, that is HUGE in today’s world. No company wants to hire someone with no experience; factoring in that the job market is terrible right now, and that it doesn’t look like it’s going to get much better for a while, it is probably in my best interest to stick with the job that I have right now. Time and Sanity and sanity are still both a problem though. If I did choose to get a part time job, that would take care of time and sanity, but money would become an even bigger issue. I would need to sell my car in order to stay afloat (and I just purchased it about a month ag0), and I would need to continue to live with my parents; even then, things would be tight. I would also lose the experience I’m getting as well, which could end up costing me jobs in the future. ugh, there are so many options.

I did some math and found that with my 71 credits left, taking 9 credits per semester (part time), would take me about 8 semesters to finish. There are 3 semesters per year, so that comes out to about 2.5 years to finish my degree. Taking 15 credits per semester (full time), would take me about 5 semesters to finish, so about 1.5 years. I guess what it really comes down to is, what is the worth of that extra year. Is it worth it to give up experience in order to finish school 1 year faster? At the moment, I’m leaning more towards sticking with my current job and working scheduling out with them somehow. I’m curious to know what someone else thinks though.

-Eric

I have been lying down trying to get tired for the last 4 hours. I started off reading a book about the lies that the government has told us, which was pretty boring. I ended up drifting off after about 20 minutes of that, but the sleep was light, and I awoke easily after about thirty minutes. Then I moved from the couch to bed and read the hunt for red october. Two o clock hit, and I set the book down and tried to drift off. It’s ten to three now and i’m wiring this.

It’s not the staying up that I don’t enjoy. I like the alone time I get when I’m the only one conscious in the entire house. It’s a special time when all of my responsibilities just drift away. There is no work to be done, because the work that needs to be done requires noise, which I avoid at all costs in the wee hours of the morning. I feel terrible when I wake up my parents, because they have to go to work so early. One of the definite perks of living alone is the ability to do whatever you would at any hour of the night (within reason of course). Anyway, it’s not the staying up that bothers me, I rather enjoy it, it’s the next day that is going to be painful.

Waking up with less than eight hours of sleep is probably the most uncomfortable thing I experience regularly. The feeling of tiredness overwhelms my entire body and mind. Thoughts drift through my head at uncontrollable speed with zero focus, my brain literally feels like mush. My eyes sting as I fight with them to stay open. Ugh.. I’m going to have to feel that in about 6.5 hrs.

Here goes attempt number two at getting to bed.. good night world.

Well, today is my second day missing work. I really detest being sick, and this sick is bad. I think what i wrote about in one of the recent posts about it not being too bad was just the beginning of the sickness. Since then it has just gotten worse. Currently the left side of my head is about to explode from the sinus pressure. My ear has been under pressure for four days now, and i currently have mucous leaking into my eye (not pleasant, btw). The doctor prescribed me a new medicine today, which should help. If I’m not feeling better by tomorrow though, I’m not sure what I’ll do.

Well I probably should get off to bed. I’m getting crazy tired anyway.

-Eric

I’m playing around on my new ipad right now.. I’m even typing this from it, and it’s super easy. This thing is amazing, for sure.

Now I’m off to look for an ipad case. I forgot to pick one up at the apple store today.

-Eric

PS. I know I’ve posted some mean things a out apple, and I’m not going to take them back.. Deep down, apple has some serious issues, but this product is awesome..