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Jul. 1st, 2008 08:27 pm*sighs* Planning for classes in grad school is about 115% harder than it is as an undergrad. Why, you ask? Well, at least in undergrad, most of the classes are offered at least once a year, so planning is somewhat doable. In grad school, though? Certain classes are offered only once every two years, when Jupiter and Neptune are in the proper alignment and Venus is ascending. Which means if you're a master's student, you basically get one shot to take a class, and that's it. What makes this worse is that I'm expected to have exactly 9 credit hours. EXACTLY.
So you can imagine my elation when I finally got my plan of work together. And my insane frustration when I found out that the two classes I was going to take next semester almost completely overlap during the week. One class is required. The other is a course in systematics that would have taught me a lot of practical stuff that pertained to the area of botany I'm working in.
Since the required course is so involved that it would be better to take it now rather than try to do it at the end when I'm trying to write my thesis, I'm going to have to drop the systematics course. Which means I have to take something different. Right now it looks like I'm going to be taking a course in wetland flora. Which is an all day Saturday affair. You can imagine my enthusiasm.
On top of that, I should still probably take a systematics course. It looks like there's one offered in the spring. Although the only way I'll be able to take it is if I drop a course in paleobotany which, while not really pertaining to my research, is something I really wanted to take. I've wanted to take it ever since I was an undergrad, but couldn't take it then because, again, it's only offered during certain times of the decade. And if I don't take it in the spring, I won't be able to take it, period. So it's starting to look like I won't be able to take it.
*sighs* This sucks.
So you can imagine my elation when I finally got my plan of work together. And my insane frustration when I found out that the two classes I was going to take next semester almost completely overlap during the week. One class is required. The other is a course in systematics that would have taught me a lot of practical stuff that pertained to the area of botany I'm working in.
Since the required course is so involved that it would be better to take it now rather than try to do it at the end when I'm trying to write my thesis, I'm going to have to drop the systematics course. Which means I have to take something different. Right now it looks like I'm going to be taking a course in wetland flora. Which is an all day Saturday affair. You can imagine my enthusiasm.
On top of that, I should still probably take a systematics course. It looks like there's one offered in the spring. Although the only way I'll be able to take it is if I drop a course in paleobotany which, while not really pertaining to my research, is something I really wanted to take. I've wanted to take it ever since I was an undergrad, but couldn't take it then because, again, it's only offered during certain times of the decade. And if I don't take it in the spring, I won't be able to take it, period. So it's starting to look like I won't be able to take it.
*sighs* This sucks.