New Year, New excitement...NEW STRESS!

Well goodness! My last post is dated last year! That's just sad. I'm not sure where to even start, so bear with me.

Well, first off, I did survive finals week in December, and I did so in stylish fashion, pulling off a stellar GPA for the semester (even in physics :)).

My month vacation was very relaxing and surprisingly fairly busy. I didn't get nearly as bored as I had anticipated, helped a great deal by my surprise plane ticket to MI. I spent a month in Big Rapids, MI visiting and catching up with my sister and her husband. It was much needed, and I miss them again already!

And now the spring semester is officially underway. To sum up my feelings after the first three days of classes: It's a darn good thing I relaxed for a month while I could. I think I must have been slightly insane at registration time last fall, beings I am currently taking on 21 credit hours, with very little fluff involved, not to mention an impending spring volleyball season coming up.

Let's see, my course load for the next 5 months consists of Physics II, Biochemistry, and Organic Chemistry II. With my science courses alone, I think I could keep myself easily occupied. I'll be writing three lab reports a week on top of daily assignments and studying. And then there's the fun classes.... I am finally doing something I've always said I would do, as I'm taking piano class this semester. Though we probably won't learn more than a few simple chords (it's only a 1 credit hour course) I'm more excited about this class than any other. Someday I want to be able to actually play! Hopefully my introduction to my dream doesn't scare me away. :) Hang on, there's more to add to the list: two seminars requiring a major presentation and a major paper, a Christianity in the Modern World Class, and Advanced fiction and nonfiction. The English course there....well....that's another one I'm excited about. This course has nothing to do with my major and is far from a requirement, but I love to write, so I decided it would be "fun" to add it to my load. With all the required reading and writing, I may be regretting that decision later. I've already decided that I'm going to have to reserve special times for that class. If I don't, I'm going to allow myself to become consumed because I'll get so involved in my stories that stringent science facts won't be appealing in the slightest.

I've studied each of my syllabi's and looked up in a state of panic. It's three days into the semester and I'm already feeling overwhelmed. But, if I sit here and force myself to take a chill pill, I can recall first weeks of all past semesters and a somewhat similar feeling of doom. A syllabus is just a scary thing, an entire semester of work crammed onto one paper and presented to you in one day - how could it be anything but overwhelming?

Sooo...that's your introduction to my new life. I'm staring Operation Serious Time Management as soon as I sign off on this here blog. Hang in there and look for my future posts. After all, I may be calling out for help..... :)