But I think that I won’t graduate this semester. I went to my Asian American Studies class – Seminar on Contemporary Asian American Communities tonight. Seminar classes are usually the classes you need to take in order to graduate and I am taking two of these classes. I realized that I was doing this, but I didn’t realize how much work I would have to do until I actually went to class tonight and listened to the stuff that we have to do. We have to give a presentation on some subject pertaining to the Asian American Community; that is the main project. There are other projects and homework assignments that go with the main project. Once I get a topic, I have to either do interviews or surveys/questionnaires. Overall, the presentation has to be about 25-30 min. And the way the teacher was explaining it, it has to be done like either a slide show, a professional video presentation, photo essay, or some other creative way; not with just a typed report. The other seminar class is the History on – The San Francisco State Strike of 1968-69. For this one, I have a narrative summary of 5 pages, 8 page essay on the 1960’s, and a 15-25 paper due at the end of the class. This does not include all of the other weekly assignments that we have. And it doesn’t include the work for my other two classes.
So the dilemma is that I need the history seminar in order to graduate. The Asian American Seminar I might need for my 3rd college segment class (a group of classes you pick to enlighten you). I think that I might have it filled in another group, but the classes that I used were all history. The kicker is that one of the classes that I used, History of Women in China and Japan, is also listed under women’s studies, but under my transcript it is listed as an history class.
So tomorrow, I am going to call the counseling office until I can get someone to talk to me and see if I can somehow drop the Asian American. Seminar and take a lecture course, which would be easier for my schedule. If I wasn’t working so much, it wouldn’t be a problem, but I am working 40 hrs, so I know that the 2 seminars would kill me. If I was able to drop the seminar, then I would have to get into another class. The forerunners are an Human Sexuality class, a holistic health class on eastern philosophies, an online class on drugs and society, a history class on American children, and a humanities class on thought and form. **sigh** I am still feeling so sick cause I have worked myself into a nervous frenzy.
Current mood: nauseated
Current music: BT – Running Down The Way Up