Somebody… help me…!!!

In my previous blogpost I mentioned that I’d gone online between getting home and doing laundry.

Well, I finally received a reply from Rebecca in the form of an email containing the application form for the Business Conference Interpreting training course at Caulfield that I’ve been interested in. The form is easy enough to fill out, but… the catch is… I’ll have to attend classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday night, from 6-9pm, at Caulfield. IF I overload… and IF I maintain the C&S’s that I have been involved in… how wise would that be?

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I really want to do this course this year, because it’s relatively new, started up only last year, and has no guarantees as to whether next year will see a repeat session (it’s based on response towards it I think). Also, for the past year I have been considering translating as a path that I can take in the future, assuming that I keep my language skills polished and maintain a degree of interest in the nuances of this job.

That said, will it kill me, though, to do so?

If I take it, it’d be: 5 subjects (which don’t seem like such a beautiful combination with hindsight; Macro-E, Management, Marketing, Intro to Finance, EIL?) of perhaps 3 contact hours each with their accompanying tute tests/assignments/midsems (which require self-studies of at least 4 hours each), plus our packed planned timetable for MCAC which includes fortnightly big events (that I’ll be overseeing) if the Go2 team gets its way, plus 9 contact hours per week at Caulfield (which means around one hour of travelling to and fro between campuses, multiplied by three, and getting back very late at night), and one-hour MUISS meetings in the evening once every week….

In total, that means that days-wise…

-On Monday I have a 10am class, which means that my uni day will be 10am-9pm.

-On Tuesday, I have a total of 5 lecture sessions from 9am-4pm. (Holy shit! That’s like my Thursdays this sem!)

-On Wednesday I’ll probably have my first tute at 10:30am since the other slot will be allocated to MCAC lunch and screenings; an Economics tute directly after, and then I have a 4-5pm lecture and Caulfield until 9pm.

-On Thursday it will be another 10am tute with EIL as its topic, with MCAC extended lunch if the timetable follows this semester’s, and probably more tutes peppering the day until I get to the MUISS GenComm meeting which might end around 7pm.

-Friday is a ‘free day’ that I’ve fought tooth and nail for, but 6-9pm would still be ‘uni time’ under the proposed course.

And let’s not forget the recommended self-studies and preparation for tuteworks and tutetests that come part-and-parcel of uni life. All that, on top of longer-than-even-working-day-hours sessions at uni.

…Would I even have the time to go home or sleep?

And I can’t help wondering; would I even have energy to do anything by Saturday or Sunday?

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Yet I really want to do this course. How much regret would there be if the course were discontinued and I were unable to experience its confines? I want to determine my course in life soon and before deciding wastes too much time; would I be losing out on my dream job if I just can’t find the time to trial it through?

Somebody… tell me what to do? Or at least, drop a line and give an opinion?

Please… release me from this cage of uncertainty and unrest…