another rant about school

I decided a few weeks ago that I wasn't going to take classes over the summer like I had planned. There's a couple reasons. First of all, I have to add some language classes which will push me into a 3rd year anyway. Second, if we take the money I have saved back for summer term and put it with the money we've been saving for an apartment, we can get out of here 4 months sooner. I want to move. I need peace and quiet and some space that's mine. And now there's another benefit of having the summer off. I can relax and rest my brain!

This term is seriously pissing me off. Two of my professors went too slowly at the beginning of term and are now trying to crunch everything into the last few weeks of class. I had a psych test today. (More about that later.) I have an assignment due for my test anxiety class tomorrow. I have to write a 5 page paper on a subject I don't want to write about over the weekend. I have to read 2 chapters for psych over the weekend. I have a math quiz next Wednesday, the 2nd. I have a writing assignment and powerpoint presentation due for my test anxiety class on the 4th. I have to write a 6 page paper for psych and another 5-6 page paper for my writing class that are both due at the beginning of final's week. I have 2 more psych tests sometime in the next 3 weeks. I have a math final and a writing final to study for too. I feel so overwhelmed.

Now about the psych test. Once again I will state that I hate taking those tests online. Seeing that little timer counting down freaks me the hell out. I got a B on this test, just like the last one. And while you might say, "Oh a B, that's good!" I say, "Crap, a B." I need an A in this class. The psychology program at the college I want to transfer to is very competitive, if I don't get an A in all these prerequisite psych classes there's not much chance that I'm going to be accepted. Plus, it's frustrating to me that I know the material and can talk about it for hours, but still can't get an A on the test. Partly I blame my test anxiety and partly I blame the wording of the questions. They're not trick questions exactly but they're worded in ways that don't really make sense to me and make it difficult for me to figure out what it's asking. And this prof. likes to throw in answers like "both a and c" or "all of the above". Those throw me off. One of her questions had 6 choices, 3 possible answers and 3 combos of those kind of statements. I really wish she would just let me take paper tests at the school. It totally sucks that I have to take the 2nd half of this class with her next term. (Since it's a term based school some classes are split into two terms because there's too much information for one term.)

Speaking of next term, it's going to royally suck too. My schedule is going to be all jacked up. The psych class is only offered as a Monday-Wednesday class from 9-11 am. The math class I need is only available as a Tuesday-Thursday class from 8:30-11 am. With those two classes it was hard to fill in a Bio and English classes that fit. I ended up with English 106 (Poetry) on Monday-Wednesday from 1-3pm. The only Bio class/lab that worked for me is a night class. So I have lecture and lab back to back 6pm to 10pm on Thursdays, with some work to be submitted online during the week. That really sucks!

What also sucks is that we're going to be moving part way into next term. I'm hoping the move will be quick and that settling in will be easy. I really want to move but I don't want it to adversely affect my classes either. At least I will finally have a quiet place to study!