Hard Things

[ysabetwordsmith]

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

Comments

O_O

[ysabetwordsmith]

I took 18 credits once and decided never to do that again.

Re: O_O

[jtthomas]

It's effectively 18 credits with 4 hours of choir a week. I know all the professors pretty well, other than my acting teacher, and it's doable, though definitely hard. (Full list is Women in the Middle Ages, Shakespeare as Literature, Race & Rupture in 1920s American Literature, Foundations of Theatrical Design, Acting II, University Choir, and a music/honors directed study that's just writing 1 song a week toward a musical I'm working on.) That lets me graduate this semester instead of a year from now, so I'll take it.

Re: O_O

[ysabetwordsmith]

Okay, more doable than if it were all heavy-duty classes. They sound interesting!

Re: O_O

[jtthomas]

Definitely more interesting than most universities. My freshman year, I had a class on how to navigate the city and where all the good restaurants are. Last semester, I was in a no-math science class about radiation. (Even the lab was minimal math, more just how to make a spreadsheet do the math for us by inputting words.)

The school honors program is solid, too: go to one event of your choice each semester outside of your major and take 8 total honors level classes, at least one of which is an independent study or thesis. I had Honors Tudor and Stuart England, Honors Leadership, Ethics, and Art, Honors Shakespeare and Power... and now the Race and Rupture class. Honors classes get to be whatever the professors want.

Re: O_O

[ysabetwordsmith]

That all sounds uncommonly useful.

:D Feel free to prompt about such things for rebuilding the Technical Institute of New Journeys in Turq's thread.