Looking ahead.

Today, I got my quilt for college. In a way, this hot pink, plushy disaster makes it all the more evident that I will be leaving home in T-3 months and I'm starting to get stressed. This also comes from the fact that registration opens in four days and I'm completely torn about which classes I want to take. I have like a million (slight exaggeration) requirements to fulfill, not to mention PE classes. As of right now, all the information I need is compressed into a tiny OneNote Side Note.

Check out what the college website told me:

• Take a first-year seminar either in the fall or spring. Most of these are writing-intensive and also fulfill a distribution requirement. All first-year seminars are 4-credit courses.
• Take a course each semester in a subject you like and have studied successfully in the past.
• Take a course each semester in a completely new subject.
• Take at least two courses that will meet distribution or College requirements.
• Take a physical education course (PE) in your first year. A total of six PE units are required to graduate. PE units are not counted as academic credits.
• Make sure your courses are spread out reasonably throughout the week. We also encourage you to balance your course work with cocurricular activities, community service, and exercise.

I think (maybe it's just me) this is just too much information. And let's look at the requirements:

• Group I—Humanities

Three courses from three different disciplines are required from Group I, including at least one course from each of the following two subgroups—A and B.

A. Arts, language, and literature: art, classics, dance, English, film studies, French, German studies, Greek, Italian, Latin, music, Russian, Spanish, theatre arts, or an interdisciplinary course in arts and literature.

B. History, philosophy, religion, or an interdisciplinary course in this area.

• Group II—Science and Mathematics

Two courses from two different disciplines are required from Group II, including at least one laboratory course in a natural or physical science; both courses may be laboratory science courses.

• Mathematics, statistics, computer science, or an interdisciplinary course in this area.
• Natural and physical sciences: astronomy, biological sciences, chemistry, geology, physics, or an interdisciplinary course in the natural and physical sciences. (A few science courses are available without labs, but only one non-lab course may count toward the Group II distribution).

• Group III—Social Sciences

Two courses from two different disciplines are required from Group III: Anthropology, economics, geography, politics, psychology, sociology, or an interdisciplinary course in the social sciences.

Can you hear my brain short-circuiting? Oh yeah. And, I know, this drama might come from my actress-like tendencies but, seriously! And I've also been given an ultimatum by my mother: "Get good grades or come back home." Puerto Rico is a pretty long ways away (for me) from Massachusetts people!! But taking "easy" courses are not in the plan.

However, my choices so far are amazingly safe: French 101, Art History, International Politics and... still unclear about that third course. It'll probably be something I'm hilariously bad at (like Statistics) so I can scrape off requirements. God. The future scares me.

Happy Glee Tuesday!

Song of the moment: "Put Your Records On" -Corinne Bailey Rae