School

Greetings all,

I've started summer school at university and it has been rather busy. I am going to University of Toronto and have to commute from Hamilton as I have yet to find an apartment. It's been about 4 weeks of classes and I have a midterm for one class and a test for another next week. I am taking Statistics and Economics. Economics is a full credit and so goes until August. Statistics is just a half credit so we are done at end of June.

My statistics teacher is hot and I think he is probably my age. I am a bit behind on homework and hope to catch up this weekend. I tried catching up last weekend but was not able to. Each tutorial we have, there is a short quiz. The class goes from 6-10pm and it's twice a week.

My first week was rough. I signed up for calculus as well. I was sent an email saying students can only take 2 courses and I was planning to drop calculus as I wanted to see what it was like. I was good at math in high school until Calculus where I got a 65%. I will use the summer to relearn some calculus. Some of the content was over my head but I think also, I have not gotten into the rhythm of school, which I seem to now.

I am still apartment hunting but since I am so busy, that has to take a back seat. I might be able to start looking again after I finish statistics. I think Stats has been the class with the most homework and so I think that's what I find overwhelming. I spoke to counsellors at the school before classes and they were saying that taking economics would be enough and perhaps they were right in their advice. But economics on its own doesn't seem too hard for me. The class is called Economics100 and I think it should be renamed to 'boring graphs' because a lot of it seems to be looking at graphs. We have spent most of the time dealing with the concepts of supply and demand and so that makes use of many graphs and how they relate to each other. I take this class with a grain of salt because I know the theory of economics doesn't really match up to the reality of economics. I think reading Steiner's World Economy has been useful because it stimulates more creative thinking whereas the class I am talking about is just giving theoretical knowledge and concepts.

I hate commuting and it is draining my energy. My parents are letting me use their car most times. I recently dumped my boyfriend so now I can't really spend the night at his place and therefore reduce my commuting time.