New Semester: Spring 2021

[cathugger]

I'll be transfering over to the local university next semester. These are the classes I'm planning on taking so far:

• The Dreaming Brain
• Abnormal Behavior
• Psychology of Personality (or something like that)

I'm taking three classes because I had a hard time with two last semester. But then again, I only end up with As in my classes, so I probably could take more. It just feels impossible for some reason I guess. This is probably my result of being unschooled up until I went to college. I'm not used to this stuff, and it's like it my results either have to be A-range, or I quit and "can't" do the assignment. I know I'll probably need to get over that, which probably means taking a full load of classes, but then again my mental health has been pretty bad lately, and I don't want to take on too much. 

Just to have it written down, I'm finishing up Psychology Statistics and College Algebra this semester (Fall 2020). It looks like I'll get good results in them, though it's been extremely overwhelming. 

A good thing about switching from a community college (or at least this specific community college) to a university is that I can actually get live lectures of my online classes. The community college I went to didn't offer that, and I'm pretty confident that having live lectures will make things easier and boost my mental health. Just going to the online orientation made me feel better for a little while. I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've really been around people (who aren't my nurses) since I've been stuck at home for who knows how many months at this point. It was really refreshing to actually get up, shower, do my makeup, and see real people on the screen. Some people might tell me to go ahead and shower and do my makeup regularly, because it seems like I'd feel better that way, but it's really not the same if I'm just going to be alone. I mean, it would probably make me feel a little better, but I doubt it's worth the effort of doing all that stuff. 

Comments

[ai]

Live lectures sound amazing even if it's online stuff. I'm shocked that community colleges aren't offering that.

I haven't put makeup on since March... There's really no point when makeup would ruin my masks if I go out wearing it and at home, I rather be zen with my skin care routine. Video calls and such encourage it so that's awesome you'll be able to attend things like that.

[cathugger]

They are! And yeah, it could just be the community college I've been going to that doesn't offer lectures, but I do think it would benefit a lot of people if there were some classes available that had live lectures.

Focusing on skincare at a time like this sounds like a good idea!! It also sounds helpful to have some kind of routine right now, at least for some of us who don't have much of a routine during the pandemic. I'm running out of skincare supplies, but I'm hoping to get a few things like that over the holidays.