My head is going to explode.

[katekat]

And, poor Neil tried to help me out and I'm sure his is just as achy as mine.

Let me see if I can explain this intelligibly:

UT has a Summer Session I & II. I want to take Japanese I & II over the summer, but only if I can do it with financial aid. Since they haven't completed processing my financial aid application yet, I don't know if I can do that. If I can, and I pass the classes, I'll be able to start 2nd Yr Japanese I in the fall. That'd be great.

However.

Since I don't know if I can do that, I also have to figure out a schedule that works with all three stages of Japanese classes (because what if I pass Japanese I, but don't pass Japanese II? Or, if I only get enough money to do one summer session? Or if I need all the money for fall and can't take anything till next year?). The annoying thing is that all three Japanese classes have different schedules - JI is earliest, JII is end of day, and 2nd Yr JI is middle of the day. Which means that I can't plan around them all! So I've got three schedules and half a dozen contingency plans...

The only silver lining is that the schedule I worked out for 2nd Yr JI will allow for JII to substitute in. Unfortunately, the thing I'm not exactly certain of, yet, is whether the vaunted automated system will even let me register for either JII or 2nd Yr JI because I won't have satisfied the requirements yet!

Tomorrow morning, when I sign up for both sessions of Summer School and Fall all in one fell swoop, I guess I'll see.

grrrrf.

There are two other things that still make this all ok.

The first: In all schedules there is room for this class...

ANS 372 13-GYPSY LANGUAGE & CULTURE: LINGUISTIC INTRODUCTION TO ROMANI; RELATIONSHIP TO LANGUAGES OF INDIA; HISTORY FROM 280 BC; MODERN DIALECTS AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARD LANGUAGE; HISTORY AND CULTURE AS REFLECTED IN THE LANGUAGE.

The second: If I'm stuck taking Japanese I because I can't do it over the summer, I will also get to take ANS 372 BUDDHIST ART!

Comments

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

My only word of advice to you? BREATHE. It will all work out, I promise.

[katekat]

lol - thanks! Now that I've written it all down I'm far more relaxed. Besides, it's only classes. *grin*

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

And what I want to remind you of...because I didn't realize it fully until I left UT for other, lesser schools...do you realize the richness of the offerings you get to choose from? It's incredible...thank you, Lordy, for all that oil money! Enjoy it while you have it. With apologies for sounding like a shill from the alumni assn, but it really is quite amazing. OK, signing off now, no more shilling.

[katekat]

lady, shill away! that's actually precicely why I picked UT - becasuse the school is big enough (and funded well enough) to even *have* an Asian Studies department. Because most don't. I was spoiled by going to Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz, though, and their catalogue was similarly chock-full of great fun and exciting stuff. It's one of the things I absolutely adore about big schools.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

SNORF. I'll never forget... I did my graduate work at the university of north texas, a very reputable regional school. The first time I was at the library and they told me that they didn't HAVE a certain book, I looked at them like they were crazy. What? There's a book in print? Anywhere in the world? And you don't have it? I was truly baffled.

I heart my alma mater.

[katekat]

eek! i do imagine that would just be... freaky.

I heart my alma mater.
And I'm a little in love with it too, and it's only been since January that it's had me in its clutches. It's no wonder everyone's got the bumper stickers.

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

Holy crap...

Thank goodness my grad program doesn't offer enough classes to create scheduling conflicts, I'm not sure I could handle it anymore.

[katekat]

undergrad - the great evil of our time. We all have to do it, and yet, we all hate it.

[dara-starscream.livejournal.com]

(goes to pick up your itty-bitty pieces of brain and skull)

Ugh! I will never forgive your ass for this shit! This is some fucked-up repugnant shit!

Ten points if you can guess what movie I'm riffing.

It'll be cool if you can pull it off, but I think I speak for the masses, not to mention your gorgeous hunk of man meat, when I say I like your brain in your skull where it belongs.
-BJ

[katekat]

Pulp Fiction? Pretty sure it's Pulp Fiction.

and yeah, i kinda like my brain in my skull where it belongs too. I'm now telling him that you refered to him as "my georgeous hunk of man meat". His response: Ok. Have you seen his picture?

[dara-starscream.livejournal.com]

Pulp Fiction? Pretty sure it's Pulp Fiction.

Yup. I love Jules. He's fun.

Well . . . he's your honey, which must mean he's wonderful.
-BJ

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Monkey... my two cents, I don't think you should take Japanese I & II at the same time....you'll learn and absorb more if you take it in bit by bit...also Buddhist Art sounds fucking RAD!!!!

- Maija