Atlanta traffic.
Coming from a small city, it’s not unusual to see me zipping by on empty streets. I like it. I love the high speed-limits of open roads, the wind in my hair.
You’re not really always able to do that in Atlanta. There’s traffic. Everywhere. So many stoplights. So many stop-signs… and other cars! Earlier today, John and I went to the store. It was a routine grocery run. There wasn’t anything special going on in the neighborhood. Yet… though there was just a trickle of cars coming into Wal-mart, the line to get out of the parking lot was backed up around the entire length of the lot. As it turned out, it was just a broken stop light. Our lane wasn’t going anywhere and the traffic on the other side never stopped.
If you saw me 2 years ago in the same situation, an excited, college freshman with to much energy, faced with the agonizing wait of Atlanta traffic, you wouldn’t have felt sorry for me. No, you would have laughed with milk coming out of your nose from the hilarity that was me freaking out about the completely halted traffic.
Two years later and what I would hope to call maturity on my side, these things are simply… expected. Yaaay.
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Oh registration.
Ummm.. okay. X_x … Yeah, so the schedule I wanted is nowhere near what I ended up getting. The classes I wanted just filled up way to quickly! To all the prospective students out there, this is where transfer credits come in handy. If you can get slightly ahead of your group, you can register before them and get the classes you want. However, some of my college classes I took in high school didn’t transfer, so I’m slightly behind in credit hours compared to my incoming class and the fact that they can register a full day before me is killing me. I need the same classes, but they get to go first. I mean, it’s my fault. I’m behind. I should have taken more hours in previous semesters to make up for things… and the 6 credit hours I got from taking classes in Spain over the summer don’t transfer until after spring registration. …. grrr
Pictured LEFT: Schedule I wanted…
Pictured RIGHT: Schedule I may end up having (filled with classes that don’t necessarily do me any good… except for free electives)…. and just as a side note, but of them are missing about 4 hours worth of film screenings X_x
BTW, using FREE schedulers such as http://troybrant.net/reg/schedule.php or http://schedule.shtylman.com/app.php?term=201002 are aMAzing. They really helped me in the planning… even if I couldn’t get all the classes I wanted :S
*sign * … I set up a meeting with my adviser (CM has a really good adviser; <3 her ^_^) so hopefully that helps. I also put in some overrides, so … there’s still time to fix it 
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Soooooo… the Women@CC we’re supposed to go Apple Picking today for the apples for the Phantasma apple station, but several of us (yeah… including me) are really sick with the flu. I wish I had gotten a flu shot. They’re free to Georgia Tech Students at the Health Center, but I never got around to it. Now I’ve gotten the flu twice this season. Mental note to self…. go get a flu shot when I get better X_x.
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I so grateful Tech gives us a Fall Break. Even if it’s just two extra days, it really helps with all the homework pile-up and tests coming up and projects to work on and presentations to perfect. Plus, being gone since Tuesday afternoon is a lot to make up and study on your own. I absolutely love the Grace Hopper Conference and have no regrets about going… but wow… that hw/study pile IS kind of scary. Where. To. Start X_x 
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I have the flu. Brilliant.
It started out with just a sore throat… then I got the aches and pains, the shortness of breath, not having the energy to walk from class to class… … then came the coughing, the sneezing, the head and nasel congestion, the “wtf, I feel my ribs are going to crack if I keep coughing”, then the fever and waking up in the middle of the night shivering and sweating up a storm.
I’m not sure if it’s the swine flu or not. Actually, I hope it’s the swine flu. With all the hype on the news about, they made it into a much bigger thing than it is. It’s easier to catch since it’s a new strand, but it’s a much milder version of the flu. Most people have symptoms for a day and then are fine. The regular flu lasts longer and is more severe. Unfortunately, I think I just have the regular flu, but at least I have John to take care of me. He’s been such a sweetie … getting me food, drinks, tissue to blow my nose, cough drops and chapstick… I love my John ^_^.
But it’s all good. I think I’m finally on the recovery side. It’s been a few days of torture, but I think I’m finally getting better. As long as a I get better before Tuesday…Grace Hopper Conference in Tucson, Arizona!!!. SO excited.
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Thursdays are my most exhausting days of the week. Every Thursday, I wake up at 8:30 to shower, get ready for the day, eat a brunch and then head off to work. From there I have a series of classes, work, and meetings until 9:00p (and no time for lunch). It doesn’t help that the last thing on my list is a lab from 6:00p – 9:00p. :S …. meh.
It’s actually not to hard to get a decent schedule and not have to deal with this problem. However, when you start having to take a lot of classes with recitations and labs, your schedule gets filled pretty quickly. My advice? Don’t take two CS courses and a lab science all in the same semester if you can avoid it. It’s hard for me because I’m at that awkward credit hour point where I’m slightly behind my entering class (not all of my college credits transfered) so I get shafted during registration. But no worries. At least I have my wonderful John to make me dinner for when I get home so late ^_^. Chicken omelets tonight! lol. I <3 my John <333
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Don’t get me wrong… the Georgia Tech Financial Aid office is doing a great job. They’re very supportive and work hard. … it’s just so hard being a financially broke out-of-state student. For in-state students, at least they have HOPE (the scholarship, not necessarily the feeling ). Us out-of students compete so hard with each other to get admitted, and then there’s that teeny tiny problem with having to pay so much to be here. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t trade my experiences here for anything. Coming here has such a huge effect on who I am today, who I have today, and how and why I do the things I do. It’s just… financial aid, PLEASE give me a break!!!
The ParentPLUS loan never went through because of mistakes my parents made and I ended up having to borrow money from my future in-laws. I know they just want to help and are more than happy to… I just didn’t want to have to ask. Call it my crazy asianness or my independant side if you want, but I just don’t like feeling so helpless.
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