A New Semester

Spring 2009... here I come!!!

Okay, I wish I were really that enthusiastic about it...maybe I'll get there eventually.

It's so cruel. They give us a whole month off during Christmas time, and then expect us to hop back into school-mode in the middle of January. It's an awful transition. I hope I get back into the swing of things soon before the workload really begins!

This semester, I'm taking Mathematics for Teachers II, Science for Teachers, Western World Literature I, Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom, and Arkansas History. I'm pretty darn lucky, too. My math class is taught by the same woman I had Math I with, and I adore her and the way she teaches. I already know what to expect. I'm taking my Literature class with a lady I've also already had before, and she's a guaranteed A. My Arkansas History class is being taught by a man who was my junior high and high school history teacher, so I feel pretty at ease with him and the way he teaches and grades. So, three out of my five classes, I feel pretty comfortable with already.

As for Science, it seems like it will be a very interesting class. He's extremely nice and obsessed with astronomy. He says that there is no reason for anyone to get less than an A or a B in his class, so that's comforting! We're about to start doing Sun and Moon charts...I thought I was done with that in 8th grade! Haha, oh well!

My Exceptional Child class is an online class. (So is Arkansas History). The first day of school, the professor posted loads of information about the syllabus and what he expects of us. Pretty much, every week, he will post a quiz over our reading and either a discussion board assignment or an essay to write over a specific topic. He will post it on a Friday, and then it will be due 10 days from that date (on a Sunday) at 11:55 p.m. That's a huge window of time, and I think that is why I'm so nervous about it. I can be a procrastinator at times, but I can't afford to be now!

I guess I have the "beginning-of-the-semester jitters", but I suppose that is normal for me. Once it gets going, I think that I'll feel better. I know that if I made it through last semester, I can make it through this!