after all the invisible hoops i had to jump through, paper work to shuffle through and my best academic procrastination and b.s.'ing.... i just checked my grades and i pulled through with 1 A, 2 B+'s (okay, since when do they give +/- grades in college?) and 1 C. i'm particularly happy that the c u next tuesday teacher for my teaching lab class gave me a C. i was worried she was going to give me a D and i would have had to take the class over again. you see, that class was horrible. it required 42 hours of observation/mentoring in addition to the four hours of class each week and the tremendous amount of homework. for three credit hours and a 200 level class. i hated it. i only managed 25 hours of the observations and that is why i was afraid she was going to get all self-righteous and give me a D. but i have plenty of excuses- the school was an hour away and i usually went after i took monster to pre-school at 1:00 so by the time i got there, their school day was almost over. oh, and i found out about the triplets. yeah, i'm using it as an excuse- i felt sick all the time and didn't feel like sitting in a fifth grade classroom. triplets are now my excuse for everything. hey, may as well use it.
so, in the end, i still have an 3.8 cumulative GPA (it used to be a 4.0) which is still higher than i ever had in my previous 17 years of schooling. i am taking a leave of absence from graduate school for at least a year. who knows if i am going to want to teach after the triple threat are born. i may be so sick of kids that i want to run screaming to an office job with adults. but, i doubt it. i don't want these past three semesters and all of my hard work (and having to go to that damned teaching lab class) to be in vain. so, i'll probably take two classes at a time- not one since you have to take 6 hrs. as a grad. student to get financial aid- once the babes are a year old. two nights a week away from the house may be a god send anyway.
so, that's my acadmemic plan. one day, i'll tell the babes "oh yes you are going to college, i finished grad. school with an A average as a mother of four- including you triplets! now, get your ass in there and finish your harvard application".