...a new cycle of pain. Actually, I was looking forward to this semester. Really. New classes, new schedule, a nice change to my current life. Not that, you know, I should complain. I'm going to work, making money, going to school, learning stuff, going home, building relationships, etc etc. But one does tire of it rather quickly. So, again, I was excited for fall semester. No, I haven't transferred yet, nor have I figured out an adequate solution to my current schooling issue, but nonetheless, I was excited. That is, until I signed up for classes.

So I stay up on Saturday night to sign up for my classes. I hadn't planned on staying up originally. In fact, I figured it would take me ten minutes, tops. Oh how mistaken I was. Three hours. It took me three hours to figure out what classes I wanted to take and in the end, I didn't manage to finish because apparently the system forgot I had already taken the three math and two physics pre-reqs required for my electricity and magnetics class. In any case, that wasn't really the problem. You see, about half way into my whole, "Ooo this looks interesting!!" I realized I had forgotten to take an important thing into account, work.

At the beginning of summer I officially became a part-time worker. Meaning I actually qualified for paid time off and workers benefits. Woohoo right? Sorta. You see, in or to keep these benefits I have to work minimum 32 hours and including lunch times that's about 34 hours a week. Not bad right? Yea, sure, it isn't, really. I recall a period of time where I was actually working 50 hours a week plus school (how I did it, I don't know). But the problem was that this time, I'm planning on taking a physics class, plus two other GEs. Now to the everyday reader, you may be thinking, psh, only three classes? Too easy. But it isn't quite that easy. I guess I should emphasize on which classes I'm taking, Sociology, Art Concepts and Phsyics. Yes. Physics. To me, one physics class is equivalent to the difficulty of taking three computer science classes, simultaneously, adding in the fact that the only thing I would understand is that e = mc^2 (and even that would be a bit of a stretch). Now I may be exaggerating just a tad bit but you get the point.

Physics = pain of 1000 needles x 9

So after I managed to grab hold of myself and calm down I focused on registering for classes and making things work. I was trying my best to cram all the classes onto the same day so I could just concentrate on working all the other days. Too bad that didn't work out too well. You see, since I have to meet the 32 hour requirement, it means I need to work at least four full days of work. So Monday, Wednesday and Friday were dubbed full work days. Twenty four hours down. Now I needed to fulfill eight more hours of work plus I needed time for class, not to mention driving time as well. So, of course, I put four hours of work on tuesday and the remaining for on thursday. Not bad right? Sure. Now I just needed to cram all my classes onto tuesday and thursday....oh but of course, not all the classes I wanted were offered at that time. In fact, if I got the schedule I wanted then I would be doing this:

Wake up
Class
Class
Work
Class
Sleep
Repeat

Or something similar to that. And that's not even considering the amount of time I'm going to need studying for my physics class or doing my homework. Joy. In any case, it took me about another hour until I finally decided on a schedule. Yay!!! So I guess it's time to celebrate now guys! Because apparently, I won't have time to celebrate next semester. In fact, I doubt I'll even have much time for sleep. But hey, that's the life of a college student no?

My schedule as of now:

Mon - Work all day, help with dinner and study frantically before falling asleep
Tues - Physics class, Art class, work, help with dinner, and sacrifice sleep for physics lab
Wed - Physics lab, work work work, and weep while trying to finish all homework for thurs
Thurs - Physics class, Art class, work, help with dinner, pass out from exhaustion
Fri - Work all day, help out with dinner at grandparents house, and regret not finishing all homework for sat on thursday
Sat - Sociology class, weekend chores, study, help out with dinner at grandparents house, crash from not getting any sleep during the week
Sun - Run errands with family, finish homework for tuesday, help out with dinner at grandparents house, cry self to sleep in preperation for the new week

I guess it really isn't that bad...