It’s incredible to me that next year I’m going to be a senior and the year after I will be entering college. All the years I remember awkwardly anticipating my emancipation, being timid enough that just imagining being out on my own would turn my stomach just as much as it would raise the hairs on the back of my neck, have come and are quickly going.
But I got my acceptance letter from the U of M PSEO department today, and next year I don’t think I’m going to be taking too many high school courses. So how should I do it? How can I balance my friends, sports, and my old school while taking more challenging courses? Some of my courses next year will be at “South:http://south.mpls.k12.mn.us/, but not enough. I haven’t been able to stand most of my classes this year – and next year the poor school is having a tenth of it’s budget cut.
I do have plenty of options though. There are College in the Schools classes I could take, I am planning to take French CIS for sure. There is the option of taking a half load of classes at the U, but I don’t think that I really want to take the job I would need to pay for transportation. I could also take classes online with genedweb, a program at the University of Minnesota Morris.
At this point I’m not crazy about driving downtown for classes. It’s not more then five minutes, but parking at the U is incredibly expensive and I would probably have to take an evening class, which makes it even worse.
I have thought about picking up a second language next year though, in which case I would want to do that at the U. Spanish or Danish, maybe Chinese are the languages I might choose.
I think that if I took classes online I could have an Independent Project through one of the social studies teachers to help me out and broaden my learning, not to mention dupe everyone for quadruple the credits (taking a pseo course gives you college credits plus double high school credits and the IP would give me high school credit too).
Overall at this point I’m really looking to take very few courses next year and work real hard in all of them. Plus I should have extra time to maybe take on a job, or just do whatever I want.
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