Well, spring break is over now, which means we’ve made it over the halfway point of the semester! It’s exciting and scary at the same time. Exciting when I think that I’m that much closer to summer, and to studying abroad. Scary when I realize that I’ll be halfway through college in seven weeks, or when I think of the ridiculous amounts of work I need to do in those seven weeks. Opening my planner is a scary experience these days, because just about every single day is completely packed full of classes, work, meetings, and homework.
My cross-cultural training class (pre-study abroad class) met for the first time the week before spring break, and I can already tell it’s going to be an intense class. It’s a 2-unit course, but we only meet for the second half of the semester, and only once a week. That means each of our class meeting is 3 hours long, and for that half of a semester, the class has the amount of work equivalent to a 4-unit class. So, for the next 7 weeks I’ll essentially be taking 21 units worth of classes despite the 18-unit maximum. To add more to that, I’ll be adding more writing mentor office hours as the students I mentor get closer to handing in their paper.
Luckily, at the end of all of that craziness, I have summer vacation and study abroad to look forward to. Spring break was just a tease of summer vacation, and has made me even more motivated to make it through the next 7 weeks!