Strive For The Minimum

Well, my original plan to try and finish all of my courses I needed this semester and NOT have to attend summer classes has been successfully THWARTED by UT and budget cuts and strict teachers that don't believe in CO-requisites.

Yes indeed. I sure got bumped out of my 333 editing class. I tried to take it as a co-requisite with 315 reporting. No way. That teacher could not have been more strict about who is allowed in that class. BUT I'M A SENIOR! That does not carry any weight these days. Not with the budget cuts. The communications department seems to have been hit hard. The number of classes has dwindled dramatically. It is hard for any communications student to get all the classes they need - senior or not! And I read in the school newspaper that there is to be yet another cut. I wonder if UT will accept fewer students this next term. Probably not. The students provide money...despite the fact that they are paying big bucks for a schedule they cannot fill with classes they actually need. Guess they'll have to jump on my little bandwagon and pay extra to take summer classes...it's all a gigantic scheme to make more money...I just know it.

So with that, I am taking a whole 12 hours again. I think I'm actually going to enjoy these classes though. They seem involved and they are the classes that will actually come in handy in the job market. One especially is online journalism 222. We get to write our own stories, shoot the video, take the pictures, do voice overs, and post them online! All of that! It's like we're working for the knoxnews.com. Which I think will be increadibly beneficial - especially the video. Photojournalists are often required to know how to use video equipment as well and know how to edit and all that. With this class I can learn how to! So I am stoked.

I've also decided to put off my practicum for the summer. I'm going to be here anyway taking 333. Might as well do my practicum when there are fewer students to compete with and when I have more time.

On a completely different level, I'm reading Twilight. Oh yes. I have successfully fallen into the crowd of vampire-loving, pale-faced wannabies that are obsessed with this book series. And I am fastly becoming one of them. I am only on chapter 8 or 9 of the first book, but I have to say that I am quite hooked. I've been intrigued by vampires for some time - probably ever since I saw Interview with a Vampire (oooooh Brad Pitt....). And now Edward Cullen is making me (and many pre-pubescent girls as well as college students...and probably soccer moms...and librarians...and...) have that longing for an impossibly gorgeous vampire to bite me. I hate when books are so good that when you put it down to get back to your reality, you have to sigh with a sort of displeasure. And you realize your life sort of...sucks.

Well I have one more cup of coffee to down and I must be off to class. I am extremely tired seeing as I stayed up to read Twilight and then could not fall asleep til about 3 am. And my skin is gross shade of pale and yellow thanks to the ugly winter season. My dark circles are growing more prominant. I'm starting to resemble my little blood-sucking friends. ... yes! The transformation will soon be COMPLETE!