School is winding down. I don’t have any more classes, just a final next Wednesday. I finished my multimedia class, but still have two projects for the other two classes.  I’ll create my assessment over the weekend, or, well, Monday I guess, either way, the plan is to turn it in when I take my final.  My instructional design projoect — aiyiyi. That one is a winter break project, basically. My prof is cool with this (he’s also my boss); it’s just that I truly feel like the first half, at least, of the semester was swallowed up by a first trimester abyss. I really need to focus on the ID project after everything is done. I do best to just focus down on one thing and finish before starting another, which is why it feels good to have multimedia wrapped up. I wrap up assessment, and then I can do ID. It will all work out, even if I have to take an incomplete, it’s not a big deal. It WILL get done.

On top of the first tri abyss, this has been one of the most demanding semesters a student in my program can have. ID and assessment are reknowned as the ‘tough’ classes, and to have them concurrently has sucked. I’m the only one this year to do it, and other IT majors have cringed at the thought. SPring, though, will be cake in comparison, from what I’ve heard on the street.  Plus there’s that cool bonus of gettin’ me a baby at the end.

I’ll finish in the fall, practicum and a seminar, and be done. Done is good. Done is freakin’ GREAT.  Who knows what I’ll do for work, in the end. I was thinking today that I’m really passionate about education, but passionate about what I see as the bullshit that affects kids lives, and so passionate that I can’t fathom teaching again because of the massive amounts of crap that districts, admins, school boards, and teachers themselves create. I dont plan on teaching at all, but I hope I can still work on changing the way education IS, in some way.

And besides, a master’s degree in SOMETHING is better than nothing. I’ll always have my education, no matter what.