Anyone Else Back In School?

[Macro]

Ouch. 19 credits? What classes are you taking?

 

[Kaitie09]

Negotiation and Sales, Relationship of Design and Business, Strategic Marketing, Fieldwork and Writing, Intro to Research Methods, Environmental Science, and a PE class. I normally average 18 credits a semester, but this one has a ton of researching and case studies that I have to do, so it makes it a little bit harder.

 

[Macro]

Wow. That sounds intense. Are you a business major?

I was averaging about 16-18 credits before as well but I cut down after I started to take more science and math. They're just too rigorous. A lot of memorizing and a lot of homework. I figured if I didn't slow down my GPA would suffer.

Some times I just want to cram it all in though... I don't really want to spend 2 more years in school. Hahaha.

 

[Kaitie09]

I'm an Interdisciplinary major (basically independent studies). I focused 2 years on Visual communications and Graphic Design, and these past 2 years I'm focusing on Business Admin. and Marketing. The two ended up working really well with each other.

 

[Macro]

That's pretty neat! Are you planning on starting your own marketing firm or something similar?

 

[Justahannah]

Oh wow! What kind of research project is it?

I ended up taking off summer semester as well since I failed Calc I in the Spring. Kind of a blow to my pride. Hahaha.

Calc's tough, I've been lucky to have good instructors and am pretty much done with my math components. I'm an environmental science major, and my summer project has been testing out a new method for trapping and counting Olympia oyster larvae here in the Puget Sound. Lots of beach and lab time, so it's been pretty cool, but now I need to make some tweaks, test the tweaks, write up a working protocol (supposing the tweaks work like I'm hoping), and do up a scientific paper on the whole thing all in the next month...I might even get to present at a big convention in Cali in November if all goes well. I'm starting to feel pretty nervous, it's definitely crunch time .

 

[Macro]

That sounds amazing though! I just took a chem prep class last spring and one of the girls I met in there is an environmental science major. I guess she's gonna get to do cool projects like you as well. It seems like all the other majors are always doing neato things. Even some of the pre-med students in their second year here get to work with human corpses.

I'm just a poor lowly CompSci major so all I get to do is sit around and write code all day. Which generally happens in a room... and not on the beach.

 

[Justahannah]

CompSci is nothing to be ashamed of, that's my husband's major too . He worked in the field for the Army, and now that he's out he's got all kinds of certs and credentials, but no one wants to hire him unless he also has the degree, so he's working on it. Definitely not a waste of time, and the world needs good coders and debuggers... Programs that work make the analysis on my kind of projects go so much easier too, so I really appreciate the comp science majors!

 

[Kaitie09]

I would never be able to do that. I took a website design class and everything I did looked the same. I was horrible at coding and could never read it. I have no idea how you can understand it all.

 

[catwalk]

I just started paramedic school, after being out of college for 15ish years. The material isn't hard, but there sure is a lot of work to do! Lab is torture, as most of the other students have FT jobs in the EMS industry, and they've soaked up some paramedic-level knowledge already. Working in a factory and running vollenteer for an all-Basic squad hasn't helped. Makes me feel like a complete idiot!