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icarusSo I spoke with my Japanese teacher, and yes, I am hopelessly behind. I explained my work study schedule and how it's interfering with my homework.
I spend 15 hours a week in class.
I spend 15 hours a week at Work Study.
I need 4 hours a week study/writing for Philosophy.
I need 4 hours a week study/write briefings for Law.
There's five hours a week travel-time.
I need 7.5 hours a week study for Japanese.
It really is that much, and it needs to be spread out into daily study because the mind can only process so much new language at a time.
The work study schedule is all slanted so that I cannot do any of my homework Monday and Wednesday, for any class. My Tuesday schedule has one gap just before law class, and I'm using that for Law homework. I'm getting the Philosophy homework done on the weekends and Thursday
The work study schedule is effecting my grades for the worse, especially the Japanese class. (Anyone who wants to tell me "oh, but I take 7 classes a week and work full time while balancing a ball on my nose" well, you already know where you can go. *points to trapdoor steaming with sulphuric gas* Yes, I know. I did the same in my twenties, too. But I'm not 25 any more.)
I either have to reduce the number of hours of work study, or I have to drop this class. Dropping the Japanese effectively ends any possibility of my transfering to Asian Studies and curtails my "saleability" to UW.
I'm also unclear if I drop this class if I can leap into an easier class such as English 101 (which I haven't done yet), or if it's too late in the year.
But as it is, Japanese is going to ruin my grades.
Frankly, it's Tibetan that I want. Mandarin Chinese is second on the list. Japanese is just an... Asian language placeholder for me. They just don't have Chinese (or Tibetan, surprise, surprise) at this school.
I'm going to talk to my counselor ASAP.
I spend 15 hours a week in class.
I spend 15 hours a week at Work Study.
I need 4 hours a week study/writing for Philosophy.
I need 4 hours a week study/write briefings for Law.
There's five hours a week travel-time.
I need 7.5 hours a week study for Japanese.
It really is that much, and it needs to be spread out into daily study because the mind can only process so much new language at a time.
The work study schedule is all slanted so that I cannot do any of my homework Monday and Wednesday, for any class. My Tuesday schedule has one gap just before law class, and I'm using that for Law homework. I'm getting the Philosophy homework done on the weekends and Thursday
The work study schedule is effecting my grades for the worse, especially the Japanese class. (Anyone who wants to tell me "oh, but I take 7 classes a week and work full time while balancing a ball on my nose" well, you already know where you can go. *points to trapdoor steaming with sulphuric gas* Yes, I know. I did the same in my twenties, too. But I'm not 25 any more.)
I either have to reduce the number of hours of work study, or I have to drop this class. Dropping the Japanese effectively ends any possibility of my transfering to Asian Studies and curtails my "saleability" to UW.
I'm also unclear if I drop this class if I can leap into an easier class such as English 101 (which I haven't done yet), or if it's too late in the year.
But as it is, Japanese is going to ruin my grades.
Frankly, it's Tibetan that I want. Mandarin Chinese is second on the list. Japanese is just an... Asian language placeholder for me. They just don't have Chinese (or Tibetan, surprise, surprise) at this school.
I'm going to talk to my counselor ASAP.
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that's a tough schedule!
Date: 2004-10-26 11:46 am (UTC)Re: that's a tough schedule!
Date: 2004-10-26 11:51 am (UTC)Hearing someone acknowledge it's a tough schedule feels even better. Thank you.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-10-26 01:20 pm (UTC)I have friends who have taken both Chinese and Japanese. Learning how to memorize characters in Chinese did transfer to learning Kanji in Japanese, and vice versa.
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Date: 2004-10-26 01:35 pm (UTC)I'm not 25 YET and people who do that much with time left over to brag about it make me tired and cranky. =)
At any rate, I feel your pain. And my advisor wonders why I decided not to do a 150 hour practicum next semester. For my sanity, lady, for my sanity.
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:37 pm (UTC)