I'm currently taking five courses, including one by correspondence, which is the normal course load for someone in either Computing or Arts and Sciences. Five is normal for where I'm coming from, and where I'm going to. Unfortunately, one of my classes is a three-hour morning seminar. This means that instead of splitting up the three hours of class
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When I was at university, I was keen on photography, but never thought it would be something I would get to excel at. When I was still at school, the thing I loved most was writing, for all that I had no idea how to write poetry.
Then I decided to make sensible decisions, and progressed through Physics to Computing, but if I had ever stopped to ask myself what I would have liked to have done, it might well have been photography and writing.
Well here I am at 48 driven back to the things I first liked, because all the opportunities to do the things I thought were 'responsible' have eluded me. I like to think that God cares about my real feelings and desires, and is making a way for me to get to do what I actually like.
So don't make the mistakes I did. Be yourself. That way all the talent you have will be fully exercised and fully happy. Parents can care about you, but they cannot be you, and the best way for a parent to care is to ( ... )
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The course is RELS 236, or Sex and Religion. In any other case, it would be interesting, but I'm behind. It's graded on journal entries we're supposed to be doing on each week's material, as well as a giant final presentation whose groups have already been picked.
I'm planning on taking an extra year, practically speaking. I'm switching degrees (Computing to English -- figures, huh?) so I need to make up some credits. I'm taking at least one course during the summer, if not two.
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