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Nov. 13th, 2009 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
majutsukaiSo I did the test for placement in the Japanese program yesterday.
According to the test, my grammar is easily at the 202 level, so if that were all that mattered, I'd be in.
However, my Kanji is in considerably worse shape.
The advisor wasn't sure about whether or not I would get in. The decision will be up to the professor who teaches the 202 class, whom he'll be relaying the results to. It's my job to get into contact with him and sort things out. If I get in, I'll have to spend the whole time between now and when school starts doing self-study to catch up on Kanji.
And there's another problem. The Japanese program is being downsized; a couple 202 level classes are being merged together, and the overall capacity will be less than half of what it was. The number of seats will be bottlenecking harshly. So I have to worry about class capacity in addition to everything I mentioned above.
I'm fixing to email him right now, but it's making me a bit nervous. But this is what I was talking about before... I can't let things that scare me hold me back, because there are way too many things that scare me. I'd never get anything done.
This brings to mind a quotation I heard a long time ago, which, cheesy as it may sound, has helped me a lot over the years when I'm afraid to do something.
"Do one thing every day that scares you." The quote, I believe, is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Remembering those words helps me do things when I'm scared. And I'll be damned if there's not a lot of that going around in my life right now.
So... gonna do this. And fuck the consequences.
According to the test, my grammar is easily at the 202 level, so if that were all that mattered, I'd be in.
However, my Kanji is in considerably worse shape.
The advisor wasn't sure about whether or not I would get in. The decision will be up to the professor who teaches the 202 class, whom he'll be relaying the results to. It's my job to get into contact with him and sort things out. If I get in, I'll have to spend the whole time between now and when school starts doing self-study to catch up on Kanji.
And there's another problem. The Japanese program is being downsized; a couple 202 level classes are being merged together, and the overall capacity will be less than half of what it was. The number of seats will be bottlenecking harshly. So I have to worry about class capacity in addition to everything I mentioned above.
I'm fixing to email him right now, but it's making me a bit nervous. But this is what I was talking about before... I can't let things that scare me hold me back, because there are way too many things that scare me. I'd never get anything done.
This brings to mind a quotation I heard a long time ago, which, cheesy as it may sound, has helped me a lot over the years when I'm afraid to do something.
"Do one thing every day that scares you." The quote, I believe, is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Remembering those words helps me do things when I'm scared. And I'll be damned if there's not a lot of that going around in my life right now.
So... gonna do this. And fuck the consequences.
