Midterms-The Return

Midterms have arrived again. I'm not near as stressed about it as I was last quarter probably for a few reasons. I'm in more of a school mode this time around so I'm not freaking out all over the place. I know what to expect and I'm taking it all in stride. Plus, it's easy to be mellow about midterms when you've been banished to taking general study curriculum classes only. Besides Chemistry, I'm only taking a composition class (which has no midterm, only papers due every other week) and a Sociology class which is purely discussion/reading based so there's really no study involved in that class either.

So far this term school has been pretty low-key. My evil Chem teacher resigned so now I have a new instructor and she is amazing! Unfortunately, due to the delay in securing a new teacher, we missed a whole week of classes and won't even cover the chapters of O-chem that killed me in the final for last quarter. So now I'm paying to take this class again to basically review. Ugh. But, it's nice to feel very comfortable with the material and I've even been able to tutor the other students due to my overkill knowledge of the basic info which has been fun (surprisingly!)

I love my sociology class. We've been discussing politics a lot which puts me in the liberal crybaby minority but it's still interesting to have such an open classroom. I'll be sad when it's over. It's nice to have a class to vent all my social issues and actually have great feedback from a very intelligent instructor.

As long as all goes well, I'll have a full schedule next quarter and will be caught back up with my nursing classes. I'm looking forward to having classes that are more pertinent to my major but this little detour has definitely been enlightening.