Bored.

An advisor from UMSL just called me. Every time I get an unexpected call from someone like that, I expect horrible news. Like some technicality has screwed up my plans, or I failed to do something I was supposed to do. Fortunately, however, the news was great. He just wanted to inform me that he's getting together the internship/student teaching applications and that everything is fine with mine. Well, just one thing- he said they still need my transcripts from my last semester at Meramec to prove that I got my Bio and Poly Sci courses out of the way, which I did, so that's no biggie. So all I have left is a grammar course, an American Lit survey course, and College Algebra. That's the one I'm dreading. I've always despised math, and I was never any good at it. When I started Meramec, I took the math placement test and they put me in Pre-Algebra. Then Elementary Algebra, then Intermediate Algebra. 9 math credits (and several hundred dollars) that count for absolutely nothing. The only thing that matters is College Algebra, which I've finally worked my way up to. I was so horrible at math, so I do feel somewhat accomplished that I've done fairly well in those math classes. And to my surprise, my second highest score on both my ACT (which I finally took back in April) and my C-Base was math. Anyway, a couple measly classes (and the current semester of course) are all that stand in my way of graduation. Well, and Student Teaching of course, which is completely bogus. The concept is good, and one cannot underestimate the importance of the experience, but it's pretty much bullshit. It counts as 12 credit hours, and not only do we have to teach full school days, 5 days a week for 4 months without pay, but we have to pay THEM! This makes absolutely no sense to me. And they keep saying, "We don't recommend holding down a job while doing your student teaching." Uh...sorry, but I don't live at home with mommy and daddy. I kinda have a kid to support. Anyway, that's beyond the point. At this point I'm just rambling, but I felt the need to post a blog about something. It's been awhile; I feel like I've been neglectful. Whatever. I don't even know.