{December 5} How long will it take?

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So it’s 1am, I was stuck in a ditch for an hour getting back from work because the roads…wait..WHAT roads were a giant mess. Two cars infront stalled, everyone behind stalled..people getting out to push each other out..it was terrible.

I’m wondering how long it will take me to finish uni -- so far I’m completely confused. No one told me which classes to take first year and how important it is to structure everything to meet the requirements for your second and third year courses. What I do know is that many people are far worse off than me though because I think I’m about 2 or 3 classes short of what I should have done last year. It was nearly impossible to manage, I had lost my job and was also taking a class online which added up to 5 classes including waking up early on weekends to take face to face tests along with online tests and assignments along with university assignments, lectures and exams. Maybe I need to give myself a break, I pushed myself to tears last year.

I know which classes I need now (well, more or less) and I think I may end up doing 4 years and a couple of months instead of the standard 4…hopefully I won’t have to do 5 years because that sounds like such a long time. The thing is that, I don’t want to give up my job. I hate the thought of being broke, utterly dependant on my parents and on top of that taking a full course load at school. There needs to be a balance and as you get older you want more control. Having a job gives me that control and break from books so even though a lot of people (including my old self) would say that education is more important then a job, I kind of feel like it depends on who you are, what kind of a stress level you can take and how much you are willing to sacrifice.

Next semester I’m taking only 3 classes because one of them  is calculus wich for someone like me is a double stress load. I’m bad at math…so instead of taking 4 classes, failing math and doing bad on everything else as a result I’m going to try my best to focus on calc because its worse to fail and lower your GPA than not to take on a huge load in the first place. I know a guy who’s getting like 20% on his assignments in calculus because he underestimated the load that class . Even though I feel capable enough to be taking 5 classes (without work)…at the same time I refuse to kill myself and hate life for however long that would last. I have to decide what’s right for me. I mean I know a girl who crashed her car in a parking lot from stress of class overloads -- you have to be careful.

*Big Yawn* Hopefully the roads to work are better tomorrow. Here’s some Alison Iraheta for you: