A Gruntled Student

For all my complaining about signing up for classes, I must admit that I am very pleased with the end result: my weekly schedule is quite glorious.

The past two weeks of school I have attended class a grand total of three times for two hour periods. I am taking a political science class called Democratization (taught by a Leftist/Communist, of course) on Tuesdays and a class for international students called New Europe on Wednesdays. I have been enjoying my five day long "weekends" immensely. However, in a few weeks my other international student class, Conflicts and Governance in the Middle East, will begin and take Monday away from my weekend. It is a hard life, but I think I will manage somehow.

Thankfully, the classes consist of very little reading (about 50 pages a week) and require only a group presentation and an almost laughable eight page final exam paper. The workload is about the equivalent of half of a normal class, if that.

But wait, it gets better. The combined quarter unit total for these three simple classes plus the three week Swedish course I took earlier comes to an impressive 18 units-- more than my usual 14-16 units I take at Davis (where I am at school five days a week, several hours a day, with midterms and papers due every week). So on paper it looks like I am working harder, but in reality I have almost too much time on my hands! Of course, this just means I can travel, cook, hang out with people, and do everything that I didn't have much time to do as a "real" student!

So the lesson of this story is STUDY ABROAD (especially in Sweden). You will not regret it.