I'm Ready

Over the course of the last three days, my textbooks for the fall have arrived. It is unbelievable how many books I have- 5 classes, all of which have at least 3 books, 2 of which have 5. I went through them all and wrote my name on them, which took awhile, and I flipped through the pages of some of them.

I mentioned in my last post that I was itching to start studying, and I picked up Ovid's Metamorphosis and have hardly been able to put it down. It is really fantastic writing and I would recommend it for anyone who likes to read. I have it for my Classical Mythology class, one of the classes with 5 books. It seems this semester will be reading and writing heavy, a lot of work. But I think I am ready to go back, prepared for the workload and crazy hours I will spend studying. I intend to go to grad school in 2011 so I want to keep my grades up!

I've also dome some miscellaneous shopping in preparation. A nice new case for my iPad and another for my iPhone, as well as screen protectors for them both. And actually, we took my iPhone to the Apple store today because the battery life was so dreadful, and they ended up replacing it for free with a brand new iPhone 3GS! Neat. I have spent my night getting everything reloaded onto my phone and sinking some things onto my iPad.

But anyway, here are the reasons I am going to succeed at college this time around:
1. Having declared a major, 90% of the classes I am taking will be interesting to me, I have only a few random gen ed classes left to take, and even those won't be too bad.

2. I'm older, and more mature, so I am taking it all very seriously.

3. I've made a lot of mistakes over the course of my college career, more than most people when it comes to the academic side of them. I've learned from them, though, and I will be a better student because of it.

4. I have absolutely no doubt that I am attending the very best school for me. I've been to enough colleges to be able to sway that accurately and with confidence.

5. I won't have the distraction of dorm life to keep me up late, which always resulted in skipping class and not getting work done. I have my schedule set up so that I can spend a lot of time in the library between classes, and my 95 year old roommate won't be begging me to stay up playing Mario Kart at midnight.


Those are the big ones, I am sure if I really tried I could think of more. A little closer to when I leave I am going to post an updated version of the goals I have set for myself this fall.