Stick with it, you will adjust and the teachers will also adjust the workload further in to the term. They front-load the work, especially in the fall terms, as it quickly gives them a picture who can handle the workload and who cannot ... and things then settle down. We'll be thinking of you, I promise!

And Oyster, any chance of asking for help or tutoring for your Trig class? Sometimes, particularly with math, having it explained differently by someone else makes all the difference in the world!

ILoveMyAbbyGirl - good for you, taking the three science courses this semester. What's your major?

A friend of mine just spent two years taking all the science courses she never took because she was an English major, and now has decided to go into sports medicine. She's 27 years old, and had to call her dad and say "You don't have to say it, you were right. I should have taken the basic sciences just in case, when I was in college. Now I have to pay more and take them while I am also working full-time ..."