i'm nuts. it's nearly 2 in the morning, i have an 8 o'clock class, and i'm sitting here making out a new 4-year schedule.

my friends laugh at me because i've done and redone my schedule at least a dozen times since i got to school. i'm constantly adding and dropping majors, minors and certificates - i like scheduling so much that i have even done rough schedules for erin and lauren. it's a bit sad, actually.

so here's my current thing: i'm doing away with the economics minor. i'm also seriously considering dropping the leadership program, even though i only need three more classes in it for the certificate, because i'm not really enjoying it now and next year is supposed to be more business-oriented (read less interesting).

i want to have less majors/minors because the way i have had it leaves no room for electives. (the most recent combination was poli sci major, econ minor, environmental studies minor, spanish minor, leadership certificate) after just a few weeks of english, i am really craving a lot more in the humanities subjects. so i think i'm leaning more toward a more normal looking degree combination, with a lot of really interesting electives.

something like poli sci major, environmental studies minor, and bring back the writing certificate just for fun - much more reasonable.

i'm devising it as i go, and the first few courses each semester are definite while the last few are the electives which are completely interchangeable; they just sound like fun tonight, at 2 in the morning, with my beloved catalog in my lap.

freshman - 1st semester
! american national government (pols 103)
~ seminar in leadership i (lead 101)
honors oral communication (honr 202)
honors college experience seminar (honr 101)
& environmental geology (geol 101)

freshman - 2nd sem
! us public policy (pols 106)
~ seminar in leadership ii (lead 102)
! % principles of microeconomics (econ 211)
honors english lit (honr 201)
! $ practical statistics (math 123)

(those two, obviously already set in stone)

sophomore - 1sem
! international relations (pols 230) (my international req)
! ~ world of asia traditional period (hist 211) (non west req)
intermediate spanish i (span 201)
some honors course??
intro to western philosophy (phil 210)

sophomoron - 2sem
! civil liberties (pols 314) (my law/theory req)
! ~ world of asia modern period (hist 212) (non west req)
intermediate spanish ii (span 202)
& historical geology (geol 112)
some honors course??

junior - 1sem
this is going to be messed up because i'll be at american university for this semester - yay! :)
! classical political thought (pols 301)
! recent american history (hist 312) (us req)
conversation and composition (span 301)
# advanced expository writing (engl 302)
! @ environmental policy and law (envs 310)

junior - 2sem
! history of black america (hist 318) (us req)
business spanish (span 310)
@ ! environmental economics (econ 350)
# persuasive writing (engl 308)
@ environmental impact and resource assessment (envs 315)

senior - 1sem
! @ public administration (pols 305)
@ environmental ethics (phil 321)
# self-expression (engl 310)
* survey of art history i (arth 361)
renaissance and reformation (hist 340)

senior - 2sem
@ # writing for the professions (engl 406)
@ leaders in environmental activism (lead 333)
! scope of political science (pols 420)
* survey of art history ii (arth 362)
! modern political thought (pols 302)

strange symbols that make perfect sense to me:
! poli sci 30 hr
@ environmental studies
# writing 12 hr
$ math 3 hr
% social science 6 hr
~ humanities 12 hr
& lab science 8 hr
* fine arts 6 hr

grr... this really doesn't leave me much room for electives anyway. maybe i should forget about writing certificate? spanish? well, this just gives me reason to revise this again soon. i'm not crazy...

now it's pretty close to 3am. no one else on my buddy list crazy enough to still be up at this hour. class in 5 hours, alarm set for 4... i'm not really sure if i'm going to make it to class tomorrow. ok, i've long since passed the point of 'crazy.'

i'm gonna get my crazy butt into bed now...