Just keep nodding, maybe they'll go away...

If I'm getting loads of unsolicited advice, does it mean I'm finally making friends amongst the seniors in the department?? I dunno if that's a good thing or not. lol. I guess it's more amusing than not.

I just had like three people tell me that I'm doing too much and that I should cut back. And all I really told them was how many classes I'm taking. They tell me I need to drop something but really, I'm five weeks into the semester and I don't think that it's an option. The only reason I'm taking the extra classes in the first place is cos the professors aren't gonna teach them again any time soon or at all. Do I really need the two extra classes? No. Will they be super useful for what I do? Hell yeah. So that's that. It's nice that they care but I wish they'd do it in less of a holier-than-thou way. Yeah, they're seniors in the department and they mean well but when they hand out the advice, some of them tend to make me feel like I'm that one special kid who eats paste and boogers in the back of the class and they need to edumacate me cos they know it's going to melt my brain or something. One of them was like "if your advisor were here she wouldn't let you do this". lol. What are we? 5? Seriously, I'm taking extra classes, not doing crack and smoking joints. I'm aware of my limits and I may be pushing them but then again I've done worse and I'll (theoretically) have a summer to recover.

Yeah, i guess my body is hinting at stress (carb and salt cravings!! although, that could totally mean something else...like a rare and tragic disease or whatever. eh.) but honestly, apart from the perpetual tiredness and bloody early starts, it feels great to be busy and doing things :)