Arrival Date for UCSB

Not a whole lot is going on. Borders is getting worse by the day as an employee who has been there for 5 years. It's a struggle to get through each day there. Mentally, not just the normal "what a rough day." When you get to the point that you HAVE to drag yourself into work...you know it's time to quit. I need to hold out just a few more months, though. The end of this month I'll know whether I won the scholarship or not too. June 24th is when the winners will be notified. Winners get a letter. Non-winners get an e-mail. So...let's hope I win! $10,000 would be fantastic (covers half my fees or my year rent), but I'll get the $2,500 too. :P I'm not picky! LoL

In other news, my mandatory arrival date for UCSB is September 14th (2.5 weeks before classes start). Classes start on a Thursday...Anyway, it's a 2.5 week long orientation. *rolls eyes* It's literally scheduled from 9am-5pm M-F and one Saturday from 9am-12pm for the Calc review. I was planning to do the calc thing, but I definitely will do it now since it's scheduled into our long days as it is. I also get to take a writing assessment and workshop in those days too. Joy, but a good thing since I've been out of school for a year and have picked up some bad habits. The nice thing about my schedule in the Fall (first year is planned out for you) is I have lectures only from 9:30am to noon, but I have labs/discussions in the afternoon. If I can pull it off (missing colloquia and one stat review class) I can leave at noon on Thursday if I wanted to go home for the weekend. The scary class will be our 2.5 week class. It's taught 4 days a week AND has a lab/discussion for three meetings. To say the least, I'm going to be swamped. Between 16 units, stat review (1 month, twice a week, no credit), career workshop/speakers (twice a week), and colloquia (twice a week), I'm doing something for the program from 9am to 5pm most days of the week. The only plus is it's only M-TH. Nothing on Friday! I'm happy about that. I'm planning to do my lab discussion for that 2.5 week class at 8:30am, but it's only 3 times. I think I can deal with it. :P

With that...I must be off!