Gaa! My brain is leaking!  I just looked over a world history test, and I have no recollection of anything I learned two weeks ago.  What was once my strongest subject going into this lengthy study session is now perhaps my weakest area.  US History is now (temporarily?) my strongest subject.  Today, I did a whole day on Economics (and just why is Economics a part of history?) and got an OK grade on the practice test.  Tomorrow, I’ll spend all day on Civics.  Saturday will be California History and Geography.  I guess after that, I’ll need to study World History again and hope I don’t lose any of my recently built-up US History knowledge.  Somehow, I must retain all these different sub-sections going into next Saturday’s test.

Now that I’m in NHU, I have been given an appointment for scheduling my classes (next Wednesday).  This meeting should go quickly; I only have a few classes to choose from.  Right out of the gun though, if I don’t take two particular classes this quarter, I won’t be able to graduate by next summer.  There is actually a third class I’d like to take immediately, but it requires that I pass my CSET test in history.  I might pass the test (I’m counting on it!), but I don’t see how I can get the scores into the NHS office by the class start date, and they certainly won’t be ready by my scheduling appointment next week.  Looks like I’ll have to take that class later.

My other scheduling concern: two classes are considered “introductory,” yet the earliest I can take them is next spring (having just missed them because they were offered just before I joined NHU.).  Will this mean that I can’t do my student teaching until I’ve taken these two intro classes?  I sure hope not.  My classes would then extend into next school year.