Kean Spring 2003 |back to news|

I had anxiety going back to school. My last semester had been the hardest one I had so far. Nineteen credits was a mistake, so this semester I'm back down to 17.5. I still managed to pull off Dean's List for last semester, so that was nice (every semester so far). I was still afraid.

As a music major, often I see people join a class like "Music History" which is designed to be [hard] for music majors, but they sign up because an advisor told them they could take that in place of the easier course "Music Survey". it ends up being a class full music majors and one business major. That's why I felt strange as I walked to the fourth floor to my economics class--I didn't ant to be the music major in a room with 8 other business majors.

I walked into the room--only 8 people in the room. I sat down: jargon galore. I thought to myself how am I going to drop the class and find another one--maybe I can go with just 14.5 credits like normal people--I can't believe I signed up for this instead of Jazz band again. Then, 20 minutes later, the teacher said," Alright that's all for today". and I realized that I had been let out of my conducting class 20 minutes early and I had been sitting in the 3000 level economics class.

The new teacher came in the room about five minutes later along with a bunch of other people that looked like me--well, sort of. The teacher said, "If you don't get an A in this class, you probably can't chew solid food or drive a car. It's that easy". Now, if only my other classes were like that.