classes and requirements; holy crap; Why Did I Choose This Path?
Spent a while this evening trying to figure out what I need and what order I need it in.

It's times like this when I consider being a religion major or something--I looked up their transfer requirements out of curiosity and almost cried when I saw them: "2 RELIGION COURSES @ 2000 LEVEL OR ABOVE - GRADE OF C".

That's it (except for normal AA stuff, of course).

Meanwhile, my requirements


run three or four levels deep:




In short: geezus christ, I need to get a move on.

I don't think I could finish in a year even if I went full time.

Well, I could if I wanted a normal psychology degree. But not if I add in the premedical stuff or do what I need in order to hope to get into the neuroscience program.

I've also looked over entrance requirements for different colleges and I'm not sure where I'm supposed to have the time to take so many other required courses in addition to the courses required for my actual major. No surprise that a significant amount of premeds are biology majors--overlapping courses helps a great deal.

Right now, things are looking



like this:

CHM1025 - Intro Chemistry (summer A or B 2006)(4 CH)
        CHM2045 - College Chemistry 1(fall 2006)(4 CH)
	        CHM2046 - College Chemistry 2(spring 2007)(4 CH)


BSC2010 - Gen Core Biology 1(fall 2006)(4 CH)
        BSC2011 - Gen Core Biology 2 (spring 2007)(4 CH)

MAC1114 - Trigonometry (summer A 2006)(3 CH) 
        PHY2053 - General Physics I (fall 2006)(4 CH)
	        PHY2054 - General Physics 2 (spring 2007)(4 CH)

requiring both MAC1114  and MAC1140:
        MAC2311 - Calc 1 With Analytic Geo (spring 2007 at the earliest)(3 CH)

STA2023 - Statistics 1 (3 CH)

Assuming my math is correct, all that adds up to thirty seven credit hours. Only hard-coded prerequisites are shown. Not included are the suggestions a la BSC2010: "In addition to biology, a background in chemistry is strongly recommended."



I also need:

• 2 psychology classes (and I can't CLEP them because UF "frowns upon that")


• 1 English course (and I can't get out of the third required one and pick my own because I got a B+ in one or some crap like that instead of 2 As)

That's nine more credits, for a total of forty six (over two-thirds of the way to an AA degree by themselves). I only need 27 credits to get my AA. It's not like I've been frivolous, either; well, I suppose Medical Terminology and that Nutrition class might have been, technically, since they aren't required, but I still wanted to take them. And I only received elective credit, and not math credit, for that math class I took in fall 2004 (grr).



Wow.

Sigh.

I'm not sure if I could do that in a year (summer and then fall/spring) or not; it'd be awful close. Probably looking at a year and another semester after that. I'm likely going to load up as much as I can this summer (goodbye life and sleep) so that I can get these chains started.

I guess that's what I get for waiting and not making a decision until so late. I have so much to do. What really, really sucks in my mind is that I could actually get my AA so much sooner if I went the normal psychology route and took all the bullshit "intro to blahblahblah" classes for the credits I needed.