Classes have started again. Part of me is happy about that because I get antsy when I don't have something to stimulate my brain and keep me from laziness. The other part of me is wondering if sleeping in every day will really be that detrimental to my future. So my new schedule looks like this:

Monday from 12:15 to 1:45pm I have a research class on adoption with Prof. Alstien, the same prof I had for my foundation research class last semester. It was neat to see that he remembered the names of all his previous students. I'm really excited about this class. Adoption is a topic I haven't really studied or even thought much about before. But Alstien had talked about his research on adoption a lot, and I became intrigued about people adopting children who differ racially from themselves and about how women who use surrogate mothers or fertility drugs tie into adoption. Because I don't have to leave my apartment till 11am to get to school on time, I have told myself that I am going to still get up early and exercise and take some time to pray and do homework. So far I have slept in anyways and only accomplished the homework bit.

Then I go right over to "Children and Social Services Policy" from 2-5pm. I'm not sure how confident I feel about taking this class. The teacher is Bevan, and she told us straight up that on the end of the semester evaluation, her last class reported that they would not recommend her class to anyone and made many other unhappy remarks about her class. She seems a little scattered, but she does have many years of experience working with policy and I do want to learn about this subject. The problem is, there is no time to decide or find a new class because I just had our first class yesterday, and TODAY is the last day to add any classes. And the only other classes I could contemplate require me to get approval from one of the Deans. Oy. We shall see how it goes. Oh, to note, I get home by 6pm.

Tuesday is the day I REALLY want to just keep sleeping, as my alarm goes off at 5:45am! I can get to my internship by 7:30am. I plan for my individual therapies, pray that the boys won't be terrible, do a little homework, assist the group therapies, meet with my adviser, and head for home at 3:30pm. This gives me two hours to eat and do some reading before my hubby and I go to our Cha-Cha class.

Wednesday I leave at 7:45am for my 9am class. From 9am to noon I have my Social Work Practice class. This class continues over from the first semester, so it's the same prof and same classmates. Now we've started our group project where we learn about a local community and attend a community meeting there and then write a paper and present our findings to the class. I have a good group, so I think this project will turn out really well. Prof. Wilson always gives a TON of reading, but I think it's the same for all of the SW Practice classes.

From noon to 2pm I eat my lunch, start on some of the readings, and inevitably doze off on one of the benches on the 2nd floor. Dang, this is a long journal entry!

Then at 2pm to 5pm, I have Human Behavior 2 with a new prof named Marcus. I believe this is kinda like a sociology and some more general psychology class. He seems like he'll keep my attention even when the after lunch drowsiness hits. It promises to be an interesting class. In fact, fellow bloggers Chad and Kim are in this class as well, so I'm sure we'll keep you well informed on how everything goes. Again, I get home by 6pm.

Thursday is like Tuesday, only I actually conduct my individual therapies.

Friday I don't have any classes or my internship, so I sub at a YMCA daycare for a few hours and try to clean up some of the mess I left around the apartment all week. Phew!

So now you know what I'll be doing for the next several weeks, along with lots of studying and hopefully a lot of sleeping and some socializing as well.

Hope that was a helpful look into the daily life of a Social Work student. If you want to know about something or have any questions, please feel free to add a comment to this blog. I'll try to answer them as best I can!

Thanks for reading!
-Sharon