Since universities around the country is having their finals soon or already in the process of having them, I just wanted to take the time to wish all of Clutchfans who are going to take the finals good luck!!!! Personally I have 4 tests this week (not the finals), and 4 finals coming up in the next 2 weeks, looks like I am not going to get much sleep. oh well, sleeping is overrated anyways
At Texas Sate there is a statue of two stallions. Tradition says that if you rub the balls of one at the beginning of the semester that you will pass all of your classes. So if you haven't done it already, go out an rub a horses balls.
Man, college seems so long ago. The late nights drinking Boones, freshman girls, networked Doom, and uh, studying for Finals. Good luck!
3 down 2 more to go . This semester has been weird for me. I'm doing great in all the classes that are in my major, but the one elective I'm taking (neurobehavior science) is kicking my butt.
I've got the following to do before I graduate: - Financial Modeling and Optimization: Final Project - Business Process Excellence: Final Presentation Thursday - Global Finance: Final Wednesday - Financial Markets: Final Next Week Yet strangely enough, I could care less. After next week, I'll never be a college student again. It's bittersweet. I love Austin and I love UT. It's going to be hard to say goodbye to this place, especially after my victory lap for grad school. 1998 -2002 EE, 2006-2008 MBA. Best years of my life.
since I keep telling myself I'll never be a college student again and then keep going back anyway... I've got three big projects plus a choir audition this week. Next week I've got to take three finals, give three finals over at the school where I teach (yes, I have a very weird life, teaching and going to school), and do piano and voice juries. I want to just drop out now.
Music degrees can be tough if only because it's time consuming. I'm curious as to why you're getting music degree. Don't you have a doctorate in an unrelated field?
Thankfully I've only got two finals this semester, Bio & Chem. Both finals are pretty much identical to past exams from the semester, so it shouldn't be too bad. I'm already looking forward to next semester!
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yes, actually, in biochemistry. When I was teaching chemistry full-time I felt like I was not going to advance in my field because I wasn't really "into" my subject - had to pretend to like it. I was also realizing how much I wanted more music in my life, and band/choir practice a couple of times a week on top of everything else just wasn't enough. So I thought, well, I'm young enough to go back to school, what if I actually went and got a music degree and learned how to teach something I actually like? I'm two years into it now and not sure if I'm doing the right thing; I still like music just as much, but the economy has gotten worse and life has gotten more expensive. No matter how well I do I don't get financial help from the school, and I have to work a lot (teaching chemistry classes, which I appear to be better at than I once thought) to get by. Like you say, it's time consuming to do music right, and I get through but can't really put the greatest effort in. Who knows if I will be a successful music teacher either. I wonder if I should just give up now, in order to not take out any more student loans. Kind of sad to have that much money and two years invested in it and not actually get anything in return, though. I feel like the school where I am right now is not an encouraging environment and I'm looking into transferring; maybe things would work out better in a different place. Basically, it's what I want but I don't know if it's smart.
I did five years of research... not the most exciting time in my life, hehe. I wanted to be a good girl and do something responsible with my life... and needed the degree to teach at the college level. Research is OK, pays the bills, but I'm not really into it. Not that everyone in the world is entitled to enjoy their work, though... lots of people just live for their weekends... but I felt like I wasn't really getting to be myself. I don't have a science personality. I do know that I'm a teacher now, at least, having grown into being an educator. I just don't know what subject I was meant to teach... even things like history could be fun too... chemistry is OK and I can explain electron configurations, draw organic reactions, and pick up broken glassware in my sleep by now. I like dealing with my community college students, not with many of the personalities you get in the elite science world and at universities. If I went into music, at least I'd like learning new things about my subject and I would enjoy going to conferences and wouldn't just go and sneak out during the meetings like I did in science. As I'm finding out, a lot of the elite personalities will be no more enjoyable, though hopefully when it's just me and my students it will be fine.
