Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
I am not sure I remember that one. Was it before 2005?

I am sick of school. I have senioritis at age 57. About 12 weeks left and I feel like quitting! Of course, taking neuroscience my last semester is not helping. Even though we don't need to know all the stuff in the book, it is humbling. And the thing is, I am really interested in how the brain affects behavior and all of the mental illnesses I treat.
I keep thinking that I signed up for this when I could be doing nothing? I love what I am doing, but the whole thing is wearing me down. I am sick of traveling into the city for class, even just 2 days a week.
OK, my rant is over.
I hear you. My last semester, I took a microbiology class with an associated lab. Really interesting class, but I was taking it simply to meet graduation requirements, the lab was fun but toward the end of the semester got to be draining (big project), and on top of that I was taking a required programming class that was torture and trying to be a lab monkey at the same time. I spent most of the second half of the semester wanting to quit, and there was no commute save a 20-minute walk!
(Okay, I had other stuff going on too. It was not pretty.)

To be frank, I'm a little intimidated by the prospect of graduate school. I feel like I know nothing. I know I'll get the classes there (it's a specialized field), but I feel like I've forgotten the finer details of bio- or organic chemistry, even though I've had them beaten into my head for four years. Use it or lose it, you know? I did keep most of my textbooks from the last two years, so I have cell biology and two biochem books, but no detailed physiology.