Summer School: Update

So it's 1:10 a.m. on Sunday the first of September. I have officially finished the first day of my crazy-lots-of-schoolwork weekend blitz. I'm not even tired because it's just so surreal that I got through it all.

This morning I woke up around 7:00 a.m. to feed Scarlet, after which Josh took her into the living room and they played together while I slept in. At the glorious and surprisingly late hour of 10:30, I arose officially and came into the living room to join them. Josh was playing a video game and Scarlet was ready for another meal and a nap. After she went to sleep, I had a late bowl of breakfast cereal and goofed off online for a couple of hours, procrastinating the hour I would begin my crazy-lots-of-schoolwork weekend blitz marathon. Scarlet woke up from her nap and needed to be fed again before I finally got down to work around 1 p.m. With the exceptions of meal breaks and Scarlet-feedings, I worked diligently through my Decision Analysis course, swearing to Josh I would not rest until I had completed not one, but two tasks. This class is by far the most difficult class I have taken in the MBA program. Josh has had to help teach me the Greek alphabet and explain the mathematical equations so I can answer some of the task prompts. By 7:30 p.m. I had completed the first task. By 1:00 a.m. I had finished the second one.

Now I get to sleep and enjoy a schoolwork-free Sabbath before knuckling down again on Monday. With VERY good luck, I will get through the next two tasks and put this nightmare class behind me. I took a peek at the next two tasks: the third one doesn't look like it'll take too terribly long but then the fourth one is in a class all its own. I'm not going to lie--I'm quite nervous over the fourth task.

But then it will all be over, and I'll have one more class knocked off of my dwindling list. Missing out on my family this weekend was a tough decision to make, but I'm determined to make it worth it. Hooray for three-day weekends and crazy-lots-of-schoolwork weekend blitzes!