My “winterim” advanced business writing class started on January 3. It runs from 8:30 to noon every weekday until January 19th. It is a “writing emphasis” course so there is usually a writing assignment or two due every day. It’s a lot of work but I’d much rather do it this way than have it spread out over an entire semester.

The professor is also my advisor and the head of the math & computing department. I had some classes with him over a decade ago and he remembers me well. He’s taken to focusing on another student and myself for interaction during class simply because he knows us. That’s fine by me. It’s a lot easier to deal with that kind of focus when you are returning to school.

We had to do a resume and cover letter. I’ve been meaning to update my resume for awhile now and this was the perfect excuse. Now I have a resume that’s ready for my upcoming job search.

I’ve had a lingering dread of my spring math class, especially once I found out that the required textbook is Discrete Mathematics. I went poking around on the web and I found the instructor’s homepage. It included a link to the syllabus and homework for the class. (It appears that most of the homework has been removed since I last looked.) I feel a lot better about the course now. The homework looked like something I could handle without too much trouble. It’s certainly a far cry from the ton of calculus that I was fearing.

So two of my spring courses look like they will be easily handled. That just leaves the infamous final project in my major. Well, as long as the other two don’t present a problem, I should be able to handle anything that the final project throws at me.