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2004-05-02 - 3:16 p.m.
sophomore three years, ain't picked a career
This past Thursday, I was sitting in my math class, bored out of my mind, and decided to take a 45-minute bathroom break. The professor always always takes attendance right at the end of the class, and I sit in the back, so I knew almost noone would notice if I got up and left my books there, ostensibly to go to the bathroom, and take a long time coming back. I already did well enough on the first 3 tests that as long as I keep up my perfect attendance, I'll get the C I need for the class, so I really don't care how I do on the final. And since I've lost the drive to even keep up with the class lessons, but I need to keep going to class these last few weeks, I've been increasingly bored in class. So I just walked right out, 20 minutes into class, and came back for the last 15 minutes. It was a beautiful day and I walked around campus and laid down on the grass for a while, and then went to one of the computer labs in another building and surfed the net, just killing time. It was great. It's going to be very hard to resist the temptation to do that in every class for the last couple weeks of the semester. I've got a bunch of papers due this week and I'm going to be feeling the crunch for a while. But then I'll be done with the semester, at least for a couple weeks, and then in June and July I'm taking one summer class. It's the first time I've taken a summer course, but I figure I've got plenty of time for it in the summer, and it will help me get that much closer to graduation. I'm so close I can taste it. I need less than 2 semesters' worth of classes to graduate, so I can take a light load of classes in the fall and spring, and then wrap it up at an even 5 years. I've really been kind of halfhearted about it for much of my college career, but I do feel a sense of accomplishment at getting this far, and I'm ready to get that piece of paper and move on to the next phase of my life. -al
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