Seriously! Thank God I decided to scale back the number of credits this term! With only 13 golden tokens for me to collect at the end of this ten-week adventure, this is more than level one of some 8-bit experience. This is my busiest term I have experienced in college thus far – and from my friends I hear this is only the beginning. This time around I am enrolled in Communications 114: Argument and Critical Discourse. This is a 100-level course worth three credits, yet it has a workload and grading criticality of a much higher-end class. I am so exhausted of all the work we have to do.

We have one 50-minute lecture and two 50-minute recitations a week. We have weekly quizzes over the notes every lecture and, I believe, four journals – one due about every-other week in recitation. On top of that, we have an end-of-course argument that we are constantly working towards. There are significant chunks of this project sort of thing due at intermittent weeks of the course. We are divided into groups of about four or five students – we collaborate together and decide on our own when we want to meet outside of class to work on our tasks. The majority of us are very hard workers, meeting about once a week for about two hours. However, this week we are meeting four times to make sure we get everything done – two of those get-together shindigs in one, single day – then the next the following morning at 8am. I am so exhausted.

I can almost compare the feeling I get from this course to that of starting a new job with a consistent, full shift. It’s that resistive commitment you have to get used to, and you cherish every moment you have just to rest your brain and not worry about it. In all four of my classes I have some sort of group project – with each I have to delegate my time. I need a clone, substitute, or avatar to help me out, please!