Today I attended two of my four classes.  Both were 3 hour lectures, both met in the same room, and they were back to back, a total of six hours of lecture to be endured today.  One of these two classes is likely the one I will drop, but the decision can’t be made until I attend my fourth and final class, the dreaded web development class which is held tomorrow and Wednesday.  That’s the class I am most excited about, and the most nervous about.  I don’t know if I can handle the technical stuff it will require, though it is advertised as a class to be taken by someone with little or no computer experience.  In reality however, most students have tons more computer skills than I do, so I am worried that I’ll start out behind before this first week is finished.

However, between the two classes I sat through today, if it comes to it, I will drop the Management of Special Libraries, for several reasons.  One, I took an instant dislike to the professor who comes to us from Wayne State University, and two there are a TON of projects that are assigned for the class, none difficult, but an awful lot of them.  And this semester, with classes, my work at the library and an internship, time is scarce.  And lastly, special libraries aren’t my field and this course is less relevant than the other class, which is collection development.  Collection development is being taught by the same professor that taught Archives last semester, he’s a known quantity and I felt much more at home with his assignments.

But all this is just conjecture.  I still have to work through at least one class of the web development course to get the syllabus and maybe then I will know what to do.  Meanwhile I will start writing the paper for the Professional Practices class I had on Thursday, and maybe even start the paper due next week for the Special Libraries class.  And of course I will start reading.  Each course has  huge amounts of reading to do.  I am going to try to read a bigger percentage of the assigned articles this semester than I did last.  Really.  I’m going to try.