Sleep habits?

So I thought that not having class until 1:50pm on Mondays and Wednesdays would be a good thing. About two months into the school year, I've started to realize that couldn't be farther from the truth. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have class at 9:35am and having such a differential on those days from Mondays and Wednesdays have been killing me. I don't like to go to bed and I admit that I have a little bit of a sleeping problem, so I don't go to bed until absolutely necessary. So waking up on one day at 12:30pm and 8:30am the next isn't exactly a good schedule to follow.
On a positive note, I think I'll be able to graduate after a summer class or 2 and am going to send out my recommendation requests for graduate school within the next week.

Poker Bankroll: $534.45

Grad School or the real world?

A very smart person once told me that you could never get enough education. Neither one of my parents went to college, so naturally they helped to push me to go to school. Now that my undergraduate career is coming to an end, I have come to a crossroads, and no, I don't mean that terrible Britney Spears movie. I want to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can, I love to learn. I plan on attending graduate school, even though I know it may not be at the time I wanted to. I won't be able to graduate in May, and will need a summer class in order to finish my degree in August. Don't switch majors any later than freshman year folks. That puts me into an awkward position in apply for my master's degree. Do I apply now for the upcoming fall, or do I wait and apply the following year and get a job in the meantime. I know that I need to ask my academic advisor to see if I can still get into grad school after getting my degree during the summer, but my dream job doesn't necessarily require grad work.

I want to work for the federal government, either for the USDA or the NASS as an agricultural statistician. It combines my highly analytical mind along with my passion for farming, a perfect fit in my mind. Complicating the grad school issue is the fact that the government will pay for grad school after a year of work.

What to do, what to do...

Bureaucracy Sucks!

Today, I had a meeting with my senior advisor to go over the classes I needed in order to graduate. A good thing and a bad thing arose from that arrangement. I'll save the bad news for last. First, I found out that I can declare an Economics minor and not have to take any more classes in that subject. Now for the bad. I decided to erase my Physics minor. That meant that I would have to complete the natural science general education requirement. (stupid SUNY!!!) In order to do that, a class from two separate areas in the natural sciences needed to be completed. I thought that I was covered, but I guess not. The advisor said that my chemistry class covered one of the subject area requirements, but none of my FIVE classes in physics covered the other one. Perhaps the most frustrating part of this was the fact that one of the classes that I did take was an exact replica of a class that fell under the general education requirement except that it was calculus-based instead of non-calculus. I tried to tell the advisor this and she said that there was no way to circumvent the decision. It was already decided upon by the general education director. So I felt like that I only had one other option.

I went to my ex-advisor in Physics and asked him if he could help. He couldn't believe what I was telling him that the class wouldn't count. Thank god that there are some logical people in this world! Needless to say, he said he would fight the director on this decision and hopefully that gen ed will be completed, allowing me to graduate with only needing to take a summer class instead of another whole semester.

On top of all of this, I had two midterms today that certainly didn't help to ease my stress level. Hopefully, tomorrow will be much less eventful, as I feel that another day like today could trigger a heart attack.

BTW.. I'm a tilting monkey at poker

Poker Bankroll: $80.85

Online Poker

Poker Bankroll: $200.60

I have decided to put $200.00 back onto Pokerstars that I have recently withdrawn and build up a bankroll. I'll start out shortstacking 50 NL. I know that is really bad bankroll management, but I feel that is the limit I need to start at to stay interested and playing shortstacked will help me a little with the fluctuations so I don't go busto.

Who to ask?

Today is going to be a pretty slow day, as most Mondays are with no class until 2pm. So, I have decided to write letters to ask for a letter of recommendation for graduate school. I need to have three recommendations for the majority of my applications and I have decided that an academic, profession, as well as a peer letter would be the best route to go. Hopefully, it will show how well rounded and qualified of an individual I am.

I know who I am going to ask for my professional and peer letters, but am still up in the air for my academic recommendation. I want to ask somebody that can assess my academic potential well, but being an undergraduate student, I haven't had the same professor twice and I am not really a student that goes to office hours to ask for help. So, I think I am going to ask a professor that I am currently taking a class with. He knows me pretty well, even though I have only known him for a month or so and he is very friendly and we get along well. Anyways, other than getting the ball rolling on the application process for grad school, I feel pretty lazy today.. :)