VAgirl,
Thanks so much for the e-mail. Yes it is hard to know what to cut back on. One thing is for sure this pace is horrific and I can't keep it up. If my husband was finished with his degree I would quit working but he's a year out. He is all for this because he thinks I am nuts for what I am trying to pull off currently and tries to get me to slow down but its like I am obsessed with this new direction (ridiculous). It started out as something I would stretch out and take a class here and there while my husband finishes his degree... I have leaped ahead on that plan.
So I am considering cutting back on school to maybe one class for Spring 08, just for sanity sake. Granted it will be human anatomy (school doesnt offer anything else) so I don't know how much of a cut back that will really be. At least after this semester (Fall 07) I'll be back on track academically and ironically my one bad grade didn't have a huge impact on my overall GPA (which is infuriating but I am grateful!). I just thought I knew more than I did last semester in organic and I paid the price. My professor is very particular and it is either right or wrong. I could so kick my own rear. Now I feel like I could teach the damn class, so not right. I am also annoyed with my pre-vet advisor b/c it would have been nice to save my money and not apply this rotation since this is a basic non-qualifier. Or to know how important fixing the situation was. Still I should have known myself. Its just a pain to be a non-traditional student and thus less important in the undergrad system, at least I feel that way from time to time.
In an ironic twist
On Saturday I will sit on a review panel to interview applicants who want to attend a federal service academy, because I attended one (my former life). The students have to receive a congressional nomination and I was asked to serve on the panel by one of the staffers for my congress womans office. We will make recommendations to her and she will then offer the nominations to those selected. I swear the universe finds this highly amusing.
I remember the DC rat race
lived in Alexandria and worked in DC for 3 years before I moved back to KS post 911.
Thanks again for your 2cents! Guess Ill give up on my pity party and study for finals.