Finals week

I am taking a break from studying right now.

This morning I finished my second class of the week, and now I have 3 more classes left! Well, I could only have 2 more classes. I am in between an A and a B in my cognitive neuroscience class. This class is for graduate and undergraduate students, so he doesn't dumb down the test for undergrads! If only, he would have!;) I have the option of taking the 4th exam on Thursday. It is over a lot of material and an entire chapter he didn't go over in class will be on it. If I take it, I could end up with an A or still get a B. So, I don't know what to do? I am still waiting on him to post my grades for 3 other assignments in his class. If I get even 5 points taken off of them, taking the 4th exam would be a waste of time, even if I get a high A. I may take it last minute on Thursday?

I also found out this week that I got into the graduate program at UNCC for middle grades math. I still don't have a teaching position. I was hoping to pay as I went, but it looks like that will be difficult, so I may have to wait until the spring. I will stick with tutoring full time for now. I will make just about as much as a first year full time teacher, and it won't be nearly as stressful. I will have to work some during the summers, but just 5 hours a week. Not too bad! :) I am also going to apply to some christian schools. I have heard they aren't as strict about liscenure requirments, but you never know thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act.

Finally, I gave my 2 weeks notice at my AVID tutoring job with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, so I will be a full time private contractor for another tutoring company that mostly works with private schools. I don't know if its good or bad to be totally out of the CMS system, since I am trying to get back in as a teacher. Again, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act, tutoring is not considered teaching, neither is substituting, or student teaching. How do they ever expect to fill teaching positions if none of those things qualify as experience?

Those are just my ramblings for the day. I need to get back to studying for an exam tomorrow morning. 2 more days of exams left! :)