If I’ve learned anything in my twenty years of meticulous planning, it’s that nothing ever goes according to plan. I had dreamed up a semi-specific plan for my course load while I am in Switzerland, and, surprise surprise, it’s already gone to the dogs. The original plan was for me to take Italian I during the summer – in June – and then take the second semester of it in Lugano. With this plan, I would be done with my language requirement by the time I returned from my semester abroad, which would take a huge burden off of my course load. However, as most things go, this is no longer the case. The SMU June term schedule came out a few weeks ago, and Italian was listed as an available course, as it was supposed to be. When it became open to enroll, I made sure I logged on right away in order to get one of the supposed 15 spots…but it came to my attention very quickly that this was no longer an option. Each time I entered the class number, it told me that this course did not exist. So, I went in to meet with my counselor to talk to her about this issue, and she delivered the news that I knew was true but did not want to hear: the course was not, in fact, available in June. This threw a monkey wrench in the plan that I had been depending on to stay on track with my course load. Luckily enough, though, my brain quickly rerouted and I have orchestrated another plan that is on par with the previous one. I decided it would be in my best interest to stick to doing summer school in June anyway, even though SF is calling yelling my name. I am going to take one course for my major and one for my minor, which will hopefully make it so that I am on schedule, if not ahead, with my courses. This will still allow for me to be home for almost two months this summer, and I will escape Dallas before it gets unbearably hot. It sort of stinks, but it is necessary so I’ll just have to suck it up and deal. Switzerland with not a hint of knowledge of the local language should be interesting to say the least. Hopefully they’re nice enough to accept my English, at least at the beginning. Ciao!
Dazed and Amused 