Last week

I have experienced a rather dramatic change in my classes. And that has been keeping me busy for quite some time.

First there was a tragedy happened on Monday, so I had to drop my Biology class. The add date is Friday, so I think I might as well add another class, or else I'll have too few units.... Not that I cannot graduate, but I feel that I should at least take a standard workload. The tuition is expensive, and I don't want to waste it.

So I chose to add the undergraduate version of electromagnetism. It shouldn't be too hard. If I added class earlier, I would have chosen a graduate level course. But right now with the one month worth of material, I don't think I can handle it without decreasing lots of sleep.

Then, there came the problem. I added it on Wednesday, and I have to turn in the problem set on Friday. The class itself is not hard, but the "one month" is a challenge. I basically looked at the problems, realized that I didn't remember most of electromagnetism, and start to lookup things from previous lecture notes and textbooks for every problem, It took me more than 10 hours to finish the 5 problems, which is so far the longest for me. There was the suggestion to ask the professor for a extended deadline, but I just didn't want to. Well, I did finish it after all.

Things keep piling up on me, and I hardly have time for other things. It will probably get better once the graduate application is done. Also at least my GREs are done already. (Most of people I know took the GRE subject on Saturday. I hope they all did well.)