Bittersweet

K guys, I officially got into the BFA degree program at U of M! Woo-hoo! *champagne glasses clinking*

But man, oh man, is next year going to be stressful! SO. MUCH. SCHOOL.

I'm putting a schedule together as we speak. I'm trying to get a timetable worked out now so that I can just come home from camping and register and relax. No hassle.

Here's what my schedule is looking like so far, and honestly, it's about the only thing that I can get to work out:

*All the courses on here are mandatory except French. Even if I dropped French though, there's not much flexibility in the rest of it. Sigh.

Monday
3:00 pm -- 6:00 pm: Basic Design

Okay, not so bad. This is a three hour course though that I have to take three times a week. Yikes!

Tuesday
10:00 am -- 11:20 am: Introduction to Art
1:00 pm -- 2:15 pm: French
3:00 pm -- 6:00 pm: Fundamentals of Drawing

A little worse. School from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Eight hours of school. Fundamentals of Drawing is another three hour course, three times a week.

Wednesday

11:30 am -- 2:30 pm: Fundamentals of Drawing
3:00 pm -- 6:00 pm: Basic Design

Not bad for number of classes, but not only one three hour class-- two of them.

Thursday

10:00 am -- 11:20 am: Introduction to Art
1:00 pm -- 2:15 pm: French
3:00 pm -- 6:00 pm: Basic Design

Basically, the same as Tuesdays. So not one eight hour day a week-- two of them.

Friday

11:30 -- 2:30: Fundamentals of Drawing

Again, not so bad.

I was hoping to work it out so that I would only have to go to school 4 times a week, but it doesn't look like that will be happening. If I don't take French, I think I can make it work, but I don't know. I want to take that course, but I guess I can always take it second year (or third year? I don't know what year I am in anymore. It's my second year of university, but my first year in my program... hmm...)

Also, I was looking at taking Fundamentals of Marketing because I want to get into advertising, but I think I might put that off until second year or at least second term. I found a course second term that I could just tack onto my Monday and Wednesday mornings. But it means starting at 10:00 instead of 3:00 or 11:30, and still going til 6:00. I don't know if that's worth it or not, but if it will still work out on my schedule I think I'll register now, and if by the end of term 1 I think, Hey, I can handle it, then I'll take it. If not, I will drop it. Easy as pie.

Mmmm, pie...