A Look Ahead!

With only six more weeks to go till the end of the semester, I am beginning to glance ahead and take a look at the spring semester. In the Cronkite School it is mandatory you meet with your advisor. My advising appointment was today. I woke up early this morning, got ready and as I drove to school, my head filled with questions I wanted to ask. Now, I bet many of you are just like me and have a need to know everything, especially information regarding your future. My plan is to try and graduate early. Yes, that’s right I want to have the full on responsibilities of an adult. See, the thing is my “roommate” and I want to buy a house of our own. You’ve most likely figured out by now that my “roommate” is actually my boyfriend. The tricky part of wanting to own your own place is the money that it takes. So, the sooner I graduate, the sooner I can have a career, the sooner I make more money which makes it sooner to have a house. Pretty rational thinking I’d say.

Back to my advising appointment; when I asked my advisor about graduating early she gave me a look of pure puzzlement, as if I was crazy! The downside of my plan I discovered, is that because the Cronkite classes are set up in order it may be difficult to graduate early because I would need to take classes differently than the curriculum is set up. The good news, however, is that I can take my general studies classes during the summer at the chance that graduating early can happen and just at the fact that my course load would be lighter for the fall ’08 semester. Honestly, having five classes right now isn’t too challenging that I couldn’t do it again, but I would like to spend a lot of focus on my journalism courses since that is where my future lies.

Senior year in high school I changed my mind kind of late in the game on where I wanted to go to school, so I ended up registering late for ASU. This made me register late for classes and it is harder to get a great schedule that way. I advise you not to do this, but do make sure you are a making a decision about college that makes you happy. Anyway, I still have to fulfill my math credit. That class along with English 102, French 201, Sociology 101 and JMC 201 are what, at the end of my advising appointment I knew I had to register for. Wish me luck I beat the crowd when its enrollment time.


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