First Week of School

This week marks the first week of our Fall 2009 semester, last one being at community college, and I think it's safe to say that we are both very grateful for that. It's an interesting semester so far, mainly because of the beautiful economy we are living in. I didn't think much of it before going to school on Monday, but when looking at the campus and the classrooms it suddenly hit me. Budgets are tighter, therefore admissions for this fall were lower than ever.. meaning more students had to stay at community college because they couldn't get into a University. Budgets are tighter, therefore high school seniors aren't wanting to pay incredible tuition... meaning more students are at community college because it is the more affordable option. Budgets are tighter, therefore classes are larger.. meaning professors are being forced to add an excessive amount of students to cater toward the changes, and not many are willing to do that, making it more difficult to get the classes you need.

So far we have only had one minor problem with Mr. B getting into his math class. Our justification was the fact that Idaho took him without math being a requirement for entry, so it will just have to be something taken care of there. Troublesome and annoying, but what can you do when there are classes of 60 and you are trying to see if the teacher will take just one more student? Grading will be a nightmare this year. I feel sorry for them.

Thankfully this will be a very interesting semester for us both. You see, I have been doing an online program through Indiana University. The way this program works is that there has to be 90 units completed at the community college, and 30 units through their program. Up until this semester I had an extra 10 units to be completed at Saddleback, of which I have been putting off for awhile. No requirements as to what these units needed to be, just that I needed 10 more. So what would you do if given this situation? You are going to be newly married, homework, work, busy schedules, trying to save as much as possible before a big move, wanting to have some quality time together... So instead of doing the seperate lives while going to school thing, we decided to take all our classes together. We figured it would give us something to work toward together while being able to see each other on a daily basis.. and the competition will surely earn us both good grades. Its the only time we will be able to do this, seeing as Mr. B will be at BYU and me home at my computer, so we thought it would be a good experience for us both and something that we should take advantage of.

Our classes? Tai-Chi, Yoga, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, Introduction to Psychology, Mr. B is then taking World History online, and I will be doing a Religion course online. It should be a good semester, and certainly something we are enjoying doing together. We are looking forward to every class so far, each teacher presenting good information for what the semester should entail, but we are most enjoying our Tai-Chi class. Certainly more about that later...

This entry is more of an informative one, mainly because I havent posted anything in a bit and just wanted to update on our school adventure. Not to say that my mind hasnt been running with interesting insight, that is just being saved for another day.