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I'm getting my butt kicked in summer school
I have 12 units spread out over four classes. Two are 10-week accelerated math classes: linear algebra and Calculus I. One is a 13-week online graduate class in Ed Psych that I started 3.5 weeks late. I'm STILL doing make-up work for it and I think there's only 4 weeks left in the class. The fourth class is a 6-week accelerated online graduate-level class in Curriculum.
It's the "accelerated" stuff combined with the full load combined with the fact that it's been over 20 years since my last formal math class that is kicking my butt. I do homework every freaking moment of the day, sometimes working till 1 or 2am for nights in a row. The online classes have heavy "participation" points, so I have to check in with them every day and respond to the comments of the other students in discussion boards. This drives me nuts. There's a lot of repetition just so that you make sure you said enough to get "credit."
It would TOTALLY have been enough for me just to take the two math classes. Those two classes alone are more than hard enough for me given the gaps in my memory. (I can't remember any of my trig. Any. of. it.)
My Undergrad GPA was a 3.78 combined and my last two years were higher than that. I will praise heaven if I just. pass. the. math. classes. And by pass I mean a C- or better. That's the requirement for considering it "done" in my degree program (combined math education certification and math ed master's degree). I can't tell you how ILL "settling" for that makes me, but there is nooooooooo time to go back and restudy something and learn it better. I swear sitting in these math classes I feel like I'm trying to learn it straight from the book while walking down one of those automatic side-walks at the airport--you're just whizzing along and there's a mid-term every time you get to the end. There's no turning around and walking backwards to get more time! Shut up and do your homework and hope something sticks!!
It's very, very, very stressful.
I'm praying next semester, which will also be 12 units, but will be within the context of a normal 16-week semester and where NONE of the classes will be online (I loathe the format, sorry), will be less stressful.
If it's not, I'll honestly have to rethink all this. There ARE other paths to a math credential in PA for a former elementary-grades teacher, they're just not as thorough.
Continuing along like this wouldn't be good for my marriage or my kids. I'm not at my nicest.
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