A Paradox to Call My Own

So as you may all know now, school has once again started. And as this is my first day of my last quarter of my senior year, I realized five things during the awful lectures and synopses of my professor’s syllabi. And they are as followed,
Number One: I hate the first day of class of fall quarter because there is nowhere close to campus to park and the amount of freshmen gawking about, running into things, and asking me annoying questions like, “Hey, do you know where such and such is?” Like Goob said to me earlier today, “You can see ‘em a mile away…” Isn’t that the truth? God awful freshmen, I hate them. I didn’t hate them last quarter, so what’s changed? When I was in high school, once you weren’t a freshman anymore, then you hated freshmen automatically. But I have been an upperclassman for almost three years now, and only just today, I realized how much I hated the little fuckers.
Number Two (though this notion is nothing new to me or others): I hate the first day because all we do is go into class, sit down, and listen for 10-15 minutes about the instructor’s syllabus and then leave again. It is the most pointless day of school. It is just five hours of standing around on campus, wasting my cigarettes away while I could be putting the time to good use like sleeping in an extra day. I never skip the first day because there are a few professors who like to skip all introductions and go straight away into lectures, which brings me to my next point.
Number Three: God! I hate it when those fuckers do that! Jeez, I come to the first day of class never prepared to take notes (not that I ever take notes, but that’s not the point is it?) I am there to soak up what the instructor is like in case I haven’t had them before, which in my case is not likely (though I always have at least one newbie crop up in my schedule every quarter, in which is the reason I trek all the way down there… and since I’m there, I might as well go to the other classes as well). Today, every professor of mine held a full class with lectures. Bastards.
Number Four: This quarter, my last quarter, in which I am taking the more than the maximum amount of credit hours (have to pay more $, but I’ll graduate this quarter and not after winter), an amount of hours I have carried before on several occasions, will be the toughest quarter I have come across. Go out with a bang right? Oh, hell yes—goddamn it. Well, I have only been to five of my seven classes so far, and already I know I am going to have to drop my working hours in half. Well that is if I have hopes of getting A’s or even B’s in all these classes. I know this hope is unrealistic, the A’s I mean, but I will get A’s in most of them if I give a little effort, which in the past I rarely do. If you’re wondering, I have a 3.3 GPA, which is a B average. Not shabby for not trying. Not to brag too much, but I did already admit that school has never been a challenge for me. Imagine what I’d have if I tried in school. *sigh* Anyway, this brings me to my paradox. If I cut my hours, then I will not be able to afford to either, A) go to school, or B) more importantly, pay for gas in order to drive to school. But if I don’t cut my hours, then I will fall behind in the enormous, really, really tremendous, you really wouldn’t believe the amount of reading assigned to me every night (and I haven’t even seen what my other two classes are like yet…). It’s not like the classes are a bit of a challenge or anything. It is nothing new. It’s just that my professors have just increased the reading amount and made the grades revolve around making sure the class reads them or not. Before, I could get away perfectly without reading the texts and just listening to the lectures. Not the case, bastards, so I have to read. Anyway, you see where this might be a problem. I cannot have my grade point average drop my last quarter for two reasons, 1) it would look extremely bad for when I try and secure a job, and 2) In case I go to grad school, I need the GPA up. Anything above a 3.2 is just peachy. I cannot afford to drop one percentage point. So, there my paradox lies. Nifty isn’t it?
Number Five: Lastly, and I’ll keep this one short, I realized that this is my last quarter and I still haven’t secured a job for when I finish. Yikes! I better double my efforts. I guess I will be getting less sleep than I did last quarter. Hey, what’s less than zero hours of sleep? I can’t remember—I’m too tired to think straight anymore.

Well, I promised I would fill you all in on what I am taking this quarter, so I’ll write my schedule down and write a brief, brief synopsis of what it’s all about. Here it is,
Monday, Wednesday, Friday:
10am: Geology 351—The Age of Dinosaurs
This is a little geology, a little paleontology, and a little biology all thrown into a giant blender to make a great tasting smoothie…
11am: Philosophy 101—Moral and Political Ideas
Yes, yes, a survey course… Here we deal with an already familiar study of Plato (in the form of Socrates), Plato, and Aristotle, and what the thought about the polis and etcetera…
12pm: Anthropology 360—Origins of Agriculture
Looking at the first farmers and comparing and contrasting the New World farmers to the Old World. Plus an in-depth look into the rising field of hydrology…
1pm: Geology 101—Intro to Geology
Though, I have taken a shit load of geology (mostly field classes), I haven’t finished the sequence, namely the first part. It is what it sounds like…
2pm: History 537: Topics in Medieval Society and Culture: Chivalry
This is the worst as far as the amount of reading is concerned, though it is one of the most interesting. It is an in-depth (there’s that word again) look at—can you guess? That’s right, “chivalry…”
Tuesday:
6:30pm: History 520—American Civil War 1860-1865
This is a topic study of you guessed it…
Thursday:
6:30pm: English 337—American Literature and Film
This is supposed to be my cake class, but we have to read several books for this one as well. Luckily, they are great works of fiction which I enjoy to read (and more importantly… have read already)... Plus we watch movies…

And that’s about it… Well, I am going back to reading. *sigh* and then perhaps, if I ever finish this week—I may go to bed. Either way, I am tired of sharin’.
Peace out peoples,
-sib-