When they’re not being asked for their opinion, they give one anyway. No one asked you. Just shut up.

Me: $10 for a 4” binder?! I’ll just leave my notes in a stack.

Him: Why don’t you just queue them? You can enqueue them, then deque them!

I was knocked out on my laptop this morning after breakfast with Danny.

I was at the point where I was losing all hope at getting into grad school, but the email came.

They said it would take 6 to 8 weeks. I submitted my application almost 3 months ago.

I was half awake when I saw the acceptance. I couldn’t believe it.

I’ve been working a year for this, and I made it. (:

I’m trying to figure out this work and school stuff. It’s kind of hard to manage working 30 hours a week, driving a 1-hour commute and taking 3-4 classes a semester all at the same time.

I couldn’t manage doing 2 6-week courses for winter session and felt too burnt out to continue with them.

And I’m trying to figure out if I’m serious enough to go back to school. I think I’m just really tired of having so many things going on at once. And I’m tired of my lower-division classes.

Especially since at work, what knowledge I gained from school is barely enough to get me by. The rest is all your own application and personal experience.

School barely scrapes the surface of what I need to survive in this industry.

I know I need some academic background, though.

I’m just so tired of school.

I was looking up classes for Spring registration and I realized that I might only have 4 more classes left to earn an A.S. Computer Programming.

It’s a degree & a state-approved certificate, so I think it will be a good back up plan in case my grad school application gets rejected.

I think I might be taking 5 classes in Spring just to get it over with, so I might not have a life outside of work and school for the next 6 months. :P

Winter 2013

• CSC 2 - Intro to Systems Analysis
• CSC 17B - C++ Programming: Advanced Objects

Spring 2013

• CSC 17C - C++ Programming: Data Structures
• CSC 18A - Java Programming: Objects
• CSC 21 - Intro to Operating Systems
• HES 1 - Health Science (or Summer 2013)
• KIN 4 - Nutrition (or Summer 2013)

I wish I didn’t have to take those filler health classes. I mean, my Bachelor’s is in Public Health.. Same difference, no?

1. Bring lunch to work instead of eating out (saving for a new car!)
2. Pilates, Pilates, Pilates
3. Start playing the flute again & performing :)

I started it over for the fifth time on Christmas Eve. I was hoping to have it finished and mailed to him the day after Christmas, but it’s barely 1/3 done. I couldn’t even keep it a surprise because I was so excited with the idea of giving it to him, finished in all of its glory, so he found out right away what it was.

I hope I can mail it to him before he gets back down from Christmas. The naive girl in me hopes that he’ll keep the letter safe when he gets it. :p

It’s not a nice pair of Dunks, tickets to the next biggest rave, or a cool smartphone, but hopefully $7 worth of thread and 4+ days of knitting every stitch by hand is enough to show you “I love you.”

• Ask about playing flute at church
• Workout 4-5x daily
• Completely clean out my room
• Start paying off school loans
• Start saving up for a car
• Start saving up for a gym pass
• Study and treat myself to a new purse if I get a 4.0 this semester
• Start saving up for a purse for my birthday

I asked a question out of interest to figure out my options, but I got shot down and accused that I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life.

If you don’t have an answer to my question, don’t question me.

• 9a - Post office to pick up F21 package (bf’s doing it)
• 11a - Counseling & Admissions @ SCC 
• 1-4p - Class in Norco
• 6-9p - Class in Riverside

Friday
Due: CIS 11 HW_3, HW_4, HW_5

• 8-4p - Work
• 5p - Souplantation with Danny <3

I had my first day at the new job! It was a super fast 10am-7pm shift, but I had a lot of fun and learned a lot, too.

I’m learning so much more than I learned in the 3 terms of computer programming I’ve taken so far. So much that made me realize that academics in computer science is only enough to give you a good foundation for what to do — the rest is application, trial and error, innovation and persistence.

I actually ran into traffic at 7pm, so that was a little bust in my plan. I wanted to work 10am-7pm to skip the traffic!

I got a little burnt out today and coming to the agreement that I don’t handle adjusting to change very well. Poor boyfriend for being my emotional punching bag for a bit. Thank you for the hugs and always patiently taking the time to hear me out.

All I think about is school and work now. If something is not time-efficient or beneficial to my future, I get very edgy. It’s like I require productivity now, otherwise, I feel like I’m not doing something significant or extraordinary with my life.

I planned out pretty much the next 6 months of school. I just hope I get the classes I need. If I get into the Master’s program by Fall 2013, I will be soooo grateful.

Winter 2013

• CIS 2 - Intro to System Analysis
• CIS 17B - C++: Advanced Objects

Spring 2013

• CMPR 131 - C++: Data Structures
• MATH 185 - Calculus II

Other Pre-Requisites Needed

• Discrete Mathematics
• Graph Theory & Linear Algebra
• Java Programming I

I’m sosososo close. By Spring, I will definitely be ready to apply. (: