10.05.2006, 11:37 am
I've been a "student" of UVA for less than two weeks and already my obsessiveness shines through. As I am coming into the program during the third year I have missed four courses the native UVAers already took. I have to double major, and as yet I'm not quite sure what that's going to mean as far as course load, but I am trying to prevent being disadvantaged by my late start.
I signed up for two summer session courses, and I decided I would like to try for a third. (all three are not during the same term) I called and spoke with someone in the teacher ed office and he told me to just wait and speak with an advisor. He said that I could just take all of those classes in the fall and spring, and told me not to worry.
Well, I've spent the past two years doing it all on my own. J. Sargeant Reynolds doesn't fucking have any "advisors", if you want to get anywhere you have to advise yourself. Therefore, the concept of waiting to talk to ANYONE gives me hives. I anticipate that everything they say will either be obvious or false, perhaps just obviously false, and I really don't want to wait. As far as taking things fall and spring? Why take them fall and spring when I can take four courses now so that I WON'T have to take them fall and spring? I have trust issues. It will be hard to lay them aside and relax.
I feel good because I'm coming into the program with my TB all done, Praxis I finished, VRA soon-to-be squashed. I'm ahead of the game. Now I have to stay ahead of the game and take the GRE this year and I'll be gold.
Yes, in my usual style I'm obsessing and I'm not even THERE YET. I am hoping, however, that I am now at an institute of higher learning where my type-A academic personality is at the lower end of the general spectrum, rather than way out in left field. That's what I'm thinking. A whole army of type-As who are even worse than I am. lols, to dream!
