I'm trying to figure out what I want to sign up for in the fall semester - I'm so, so torn.
I want to take 2 classes but they are offered on different nights (so much for only driving into class 1 day a week). But I really want to take both of them.
I could take 1 and then do my fieldwork requirement . . . but I wanted to do the 6 credit fieldwork, making my tuition bill in the fall huge (it would be as if I was in the program full time).
Or I could suck it up and drive into school 2 days a week - but then I wouldn't be able to go to dance class (unless I went to dance class on the same night as school . . . my luck though, they'd be on different nights).
This is a big pain in the ass. Scheduling was much easier in undergrad days when I worked jobs around my class schedule (not my class schedule around my jobs).
I'm leaning in the 'take 2 classes that I really like' direction and then in the Spring take a breather and do 1 class plus the fieldwork. I'd need to submit a proposal on "an analysis of your
work experiences or related issues in the context of some relevant
sociological theory" - later a paper would follow. I think getting more course work under my belt before doing this may be a good idea.
If you're interested, this is what I'm thinking of:
http://www2.www.umb.edu/course/course.php?cn=sociol601
http://www2.www.umb.edu/course/course.php?cn=sociol682
http://www2.www.umb.edu/course/course.php?cn=sociol698
I want to take 2 classes but they are offered on different nights (so much for only driving into class 1 day a week). But I really want to take both of them.
I could take 1 and then do my fieldwork requirement . . . but I wanted to do the 6 credit fieldwork, making my tuition bill in the fall huge (it would be as if I was in the program full time).
Or I could suck it up and drive into school 2 days a week - but then I wouldn't be able to go to dance class (unless I went to dance class on the same night as school . . . my luck though, they'd be on different nights).
This is a big pain in the ass. Scheduling was much easier in undergrad days when I worked jobs around my class schedule (not my class schedule around my jobs).
I'm leaning in the 'take 2 classes that I really like' direction and then in the Spring take a breather and do 1 class plus the fieldwork. I'd need to submit a proposal on "an analysis of your
work experiences or related issues in the context of some relevant
sociological theory" - later a paper would follow. I think getting more course work under my belt before doing this may be a good idea.
If you're interested, this is what I'm thinking of:
http://www2.www.umb.edu/course/course.php?cn=sociol601
http://www2.www.umb.edu/course/course.php?cn=sociol682
http://www2.www.umb.edu/course/course.php?cn=sociol698
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Date: 2003-05-20 07:22 am (UTC)You said
Date: 2003-05-20 07:28 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm trying to find a balance between 'sanity while taking classes' and 'sanity about the length of time my life is sucked up by this program'. I'd like to get the program done sooner than later, allowing some breaks (like this summer) for present sanity :)
I've done the 2 classes thing before and it was fine - it would be even more fine if they were classes I was taking because I liked them (this fall) rather than because they were required (last fall).