Yes the rumors are true, I have officially doubled up my class load, sort of anyways. The way it looks like it is going to work is I begin class 1 this week and class 2 next week. So being that each class is 6 weeks long there will be a time where I am in only one class for a period of roughly 4 weeks or so before my next one begins. So in reality I am saving a couple of weeks here, a couple of weeks there, except for this month when I am in two classes about 1 week apart. Overall it is my hope to max out my tuition reimbursement for 2007 and then reevaluate my schedule in 2008. If the pace is manageable I'll keep it up, if I get overwhelmed I'll try to slow things down but honestly I believe once I get adjusted to the schedule I'll be good to go. Once January 2008 hits I will have 5 classes left, not bad.
Okay so I do have a little bit of that "oh my God, what have I done" kind of feeling going on, but I felt the same way when I enrolled in graduate school period. I will have to make some changes to my schedule. For one, I have to have a more regimented morning routine, no more sleeping in late, also I will have to try to take every free waking moment completing coursework, studying or planning. I will make sure that I have my 2 days off scheduled and try not to use them, but on occasion I just may have to. If nothing else I may as well just make the discussion questions to be part of an everyday routine, using my Thursdays and Fridays for papers and Saturday to wrap them up, proofread and submit and replying to discussion questions. Or maybe not; I'll have to find what works for me.
Three classes that I am positively sweating are Introduction to Quantitative Principles, Managerial Accounting and Managerial Finance. Ugh!!! Fortunately Intro to Quantitative Principles has a 3 week gap before starting Operations Management (my doubled class) so for about half the time I can focus solely on that topic.
Wish me luck.
Oh and for those of you worrying about that last paper that was 35% of my grade for Organizational Behavior, I received 100%. YES!!! I have found Organizational Behavior to be a definite confidence building class, which at this point could be a good thing or a bad thing.
Onward and upward...
---Cajun