Let the tutoring begin.

[icarus]

Okay, this is going to be very hard.

Sunday -
Do readings and written assignment for monday & wednesday?

Monday - Killer day

8-9 dress/breakfast
9-9:45 daily vocab practice/homework?
10-11 class (daily vocab practice due)
11-12:30 home for lunch?
12:30 - 5:00 Tutoring
5:00 - 6:00 not enough time for dinner, maybe do homework at school?
6:00 - 8:30 class (written assignment due)

Tuesday - Tough day

8-9 dress/breakfast
9-9:45 daily vocab practice/homework?
10-11 class (daily vocab practice due)
11-12 lunch at school? May skip.
12-3 Tutoring
3-6 home: homework (reading and write briefs for 3 cases), and eat
6:30 - 8:30 class (brief 3 cases, due)

Wednesday - Brutal day

8-9 dress/breakfast
9-9:45 daily vocab practice/homework?
10-11 class (homework due)
11-12:30 home for lunch?
12:30 - 5:00 Tutoring (do readings for pm class during gaps?)
5:00 - 6:00 not enough time for dinner, maybe do homework at school in computer lab?
6:00 - 8:30 class (written assignment due)

Thursday - Relief! No Tutoring!

8-9 dress/breakfast
9-9:45 daily vocab practice/homework?
10-11 class (daily vocab practice due)
11-6:00 home (prepare for Friday test, write briefs for 3 cases)
6:30 - 8:30 (brief 3 cases, due)

Friday - Pass out

8-9 dress/breakfast
9-9:45 daily vocab practice/homework?
10-11 class (Test day, every week)
11-1:30 Tutoring
1:30-onward home, lunch... COLLAPSE.
Maybe... do written assignments and readings for monday and wednesday? Not sure how this is gonna work.



For obvious reasons, I'm not gonna be online a lot for this quarter.

Comments

[jackoweskla.livejournal.com]

And I thought I had a killer class schedule this semester... you have night classes 4 days a week? Ugh. Hugs to you!

[cordelia_v]

Oh yes, that's a schedule. Are you tutoring writing? And just curious: is the morning class a foreign language? (I'm a linguistic fetishist).

We'll miss you online, that's for sure.

Bleah

[barbana.livejournal.com]

Makes me glad I'm no longer in school. Good luck.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah! I'm so glad you replied. I took your excellent advice and tracked down the tutoring center, and sure enough, they needed english tutors -- especially people to help with papers. So I'm doing something very close to what you recommended. Thank you very much. Not only did my jaw drop from your kind words, but I'm doing what suits me best. *sigh of relief*

Yep. My morning class is Japanese. I'm on my second week now, though I'm rather behind from missing a couple days for work.

I love language, too. So far in my life I've studied (formally) German, Tibetan, French, and now Japanese. I've picked up a few words in Spanish and Mandarin as well. What languages have you studied?

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I do prefer the night classes when I can get them, just because I'm a night owl and these classes also tend to have the very serious, very determined older students. The level of discussion tends to be pretty high. But, yeah. Two night classes and one morning classes sandwiching work is rough, rough, rough. The homework level is unusually high this quarter: two writing assignments per week for one class, two case briefs for the other per week, and vocabulary and weekly tests for the last class.

I thought I had a lot of homework last year. Sheesh.

Icarus

Re: Bleah

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, the school is worth it, really. But working and going to school sucks.

Icarus

[cordelia_v]

Not only did my jaw drop from your kind words, but I'm doing what suits me best

Not sure what I wrote that would be seen as "kind": your skills are manifestly obvious.

And campus writing centers are almost always in need of competent tutors. The budgets they have dictate that they must hire undergrads as tutors, but most undergrads don't have the necessary writing skills to tutor (not yet--and in most cases, never). You could make a career of tutoring writing throughout your undergrad career, no matter where you graduate from.

And trust me, most PhDs suck at writing (in the sense of polished communication). I'm actually considered to be a very skilled and fluent writer in my own discipline, which has always amused me; my prose is only workmanlike, from any objective standpoint. But in the kingdom of the blind . . .

Japanese sounds intimidating to me, since it's difficulty (for English speakers) is well-known. What I'v heard about how gender and degrees of formality/intimacy are expressed in that language sounded fascinating, however. YOu can tell me later if it's true.

I speak German almost as well as I do English, and have studied French, Spanish, and Russian as well. I came to Russian too late in life, however, to ever become fluent in conversation: it's like German on steroids. But I can read it well enough, esp. with a dictionary. I've studied earlier versions of English and German, too (those spoken between the 12th and 15th centuries), since the history of languages interests me. Linguistics is just a hobby for me, however.

Just curious: what major/degree are you working toward?

[venivincere]

Sorry to be such a Molly, but try and pack your supper during lunch and take it with you. I'd hate to see you expire from too much work on too little to eat. (Then we'd NEVER get fic out of you! :-) )

[tjstein.livejournal.com]

Holy cow, that's a lot to cram into such a small amount of time.

I've decided to go back to school in the spring. I know I can't handle that kind of schedule after being out for 15 years but I commend you for it. I might do 3 or 4 classes though.

[ursula]

Whee, that looks kind of like my schedule :)