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The undergraduate adviser in the Anthropology Dept. has convinced me to stay a bit longer for the sake of my health and education. In order to finish in December 09 I would have to take a lot of unchallenging courses with bad professors at crazy hours in order to make them fit in a schedule. With the job market looking so dismal, there’s really no reason to be in such a rush. So there we go… graduation May 2010. In this upcoming spring semester, I’ll be taking Intro to Managerial Economics and International Economics to fulfill the 2 lower level economics electives requirement, Language and Social Diversity to fulfill the linguistic anthropology requirement, finishing up Faunal Analysis with Blumenschine to complete the archaeology requirement, and taking Apocalypticism in Judaic and Early Christian Texts to cover my diversities requirement as all the applicable economics courses are taught by bad professors. So after this semester is complete, I will still have 4 upper level economics courses, 1 writings course, and 1 anthropology elective to complete. Since that’s only 6 course, I also have space to retake Intro to Cellular and Developmental Biology in order to boost my GPA and either fulfill the anthropology elective requirement with an honors thesis (which counts as 2 courses) or take an additional course that strikes my fancy, just to make sure that I maintain the minimum of 12 credits in order to have full health insurance. Regardless, it seems like the worst is over.

So this semester, I took a total of 16 credits, finishing off the basic requirements for my majors. The classes were: Money and Banking, Intro to Linguistic Anthropology, Econometrics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and the Expository Writing 1 course I’ve been putting off forever. The courseload was heavy, but I managed to get As in all the courses except Money and Banking, where I got a B+. I’m a bit pissed off at myself about that; I had put off looking at the last 4 chapters covered until the weekend before the final and then forgot my books in Boston that weekend, so I didn’t get to even look at the chapters! It’s a miracle that I did as well as I did just winging the exam; I’m so incredibly lucky there was a lot of overlap with my Intermediate Macroeconomics course. So in September, I had a 3.136 GPA and surviving this semester with a semester GPA of 3.906 has brought it up to a luscious 3.269. Next semester I’m going to be taking 12 credits and finally finishing off Faunal Analysis (from the Fall 2006 semester, the D needs to be replaced to reflect that I finished the last 1/3 of the course). If I get As in the 4 3-credit courses that brings my GPA up to a 3.3453, but if I also manage to bring up the Faunal Analysis grade to a B then I end up with a 3.3725. A 3.5 is surprisingly possible as long as I continue to get As in the rest of my courses and retake Intro to Cellular and Developmental Biology.

Ha, so after writing my last entry, I ended up climbing up all the way to 118 thanks to the cravings from quitting smoking. Then, all of a sudden, it just stopped. I started eating healthier because my stomach decided that it wanted nothing to do with red meat, fatty and greasy foods, or copious amounts of sugar. Out of nowhere, I started craving fruit, vegetables, and fish, just like beforehand I was craving cookies and fries. So now I’m not particularly worried about my weight. I feel like my body knows what it needs to handle a situation and once it’s done handling it, it changes gears. I haven’t weighed myself in a while, but I think I’m at 108 or 109 based off my last time weighing in. Since my eating habits are staying pretty healthy I’m pretty sure that I’m get back to my equilibrium weight in no time, especially since I’m currently on a no-sugar, no-yeast diet in my attempt to get rid of a candida overgrowth in my gut. Since sugar and bread are my terrible weakness, there’s no way I’m not getting to a healthier body fat percentage.