Cabin Fever

Since there is nothing else to do while I'm in school and its cold outside I've been reading friend's blogs and decided mine needed a little update. I'd like to start out and say, January is going by so slowly! Usually I don't mind the winter, but that because there is usually snow outside when it is cold, and you can play in snow and have fun. But this year, all it is is cold and muddy. You can't really have that much fun in freezing cold mud. Also, me and Mike have been watching the Australian Open, which is making us wish it was summer even more so that we can play tennis. Mind you, I have never even hit a tennis ball with a racket in my whole entire life! Never. So it will be fun to learn how to play together. Mike also brought up a good point about why we should learn to play tennis now. He said, once we get old, tennis will be a sport we can still play together. He also added in golf, which I am still kind of iffy about. But I think tennis will be good for us.
So now with some stories from school. First off, Mike is so totally upset about Weber's math program, and I don't like confrontation at all but I was about to march in a start throwing things. So here's what's going on. Last semester, Mike took Math 960. He got all the way to the end, he only had one more quiz, a unit test and the final to complete, all during finals week. Well, if you weren't taking a final, you got kicked off your computer so some one who was taking a final could do theirs. So of course, Mike wasn't able to finish since he kept getting kicked off. But when they posted his grades, it said he had earned a D in the class, which is passing. So he registered for math 1010 and started doing that class homework and quizzes this semester. Well, the second week of school, his teacher told him he had to finish 960 completely before he could do anything in 1010. So the school people unregistered him from 1010 but apparently they don't know how to register someone for a different class because they were e-mailing him asking him for the code to register him. Obviously he had no idea what it was. So the emails went on for about a week and finally they put Mike into a 960 class. So Mike, thinking he's in the class so he can hurry and finish the quiz and two tests, goes into the math testing center to take the quiz. Big surprise, he's registered for the class but its not showing up in the testing center, so they can't log him in to take anything. Well another half a week goes by with Mike not accomplishing anything in math, and finally it shows up in the testing center, but none of his previous quizzes and tests show up, so they were going to make him start all over, from the very beginning of the class. Heck No!!! So Mike, in all his rage and fury, marches into his teacher and tells her he is not starting over! So she figures something out and pulls up all his previous work and transfers it over to this semester. And that brings us to today, 3 weeks later and Mike no further in math than he was the first day of this semester. What a waste of time. And its not Mike's fault, its the stupid school! So here is our plan. Mike is going to just finish 960 and then pay $700 to take one class through someone else, its this class that teaches you just what you need to know so you can take the accuplacer and place out of math 1050. And that's all the math Mike needs to finish school with. We figure that would be cheaper than him paying $900 plus the $95 math fee this summer to only take 1010.
Aside from Mike's math debockle (wanted to use the word but have no idea how to spell it), school is going well for both of us. Mike is doing sort of a student teaching type thing at an elementary school up Ogden canyon and also at Bonneville High. He's helping to teach the special ed P.E. He loves his physical education classes.
Me, I'm in my CLS microbiology, chemistry and immunohematology (aka blood bank- where I learn how to type people's blood and cross match for transfusions). I love my classes! They are very interesting and keep me busy.
Our plans for the future include both of us graduating a year from this semester with our Bachelor's degrees. Mine in CLS, Mike's in Physical Education. Then, either on campus or online, Mike is going to get his certificate in Sever Handicap Education from Utah State. We'll be staying where we are now until we graduate, then depending on how Mike can do the certification will determine where we will move. Then once I'm working full time and get health insurance, we will begin to procreate and have little Mike's and Megan's running around. Yay!