Post 017 - College Kid pt 3

This serves to mark the beginning of the end.

At least of this year of college. I have applied for and been granted a Leave of Absence for the next term (term 5 is kinda like summer break anyway..). I would like to have the benefit of an extra term to make more progress toward my degree, but there are a few conditions that have made my decision almost too easy.

1. I am getting more frustrated, burned out, with college in general. There were so many points in this term that either didn't make sense or felt like it was made intentionally harder than it needed to be. Instead of letting this hatred for the concept of computer science grow, I want to allow some distance and time for it to dissipate.
2. I am having a harder time with lyme treatment than I thought I would have, and as such need the time away from school, including the stress involved with weekly deadlines, to really find healing. I am not entirely sure if the antibiotics/lyme are making me more irritable or if the class/professor are to blame, but the degree of negativity has grown to a point that I can not ignore it.
3. I have been experiencing more energy and time of being awake, and I want to be able to apply that energy and time to friends, partners, my kids, and house projects that I have had to put off for the last year because I have been sick. I want to have a summer where I don't work all the time. I want to enjoy the life I regain, and feel good about who I am, so that I can bring that renewed sense of self to the learning experience of college.

So with that said, I have one last week of schooling. Well, less than a week, but one last set of assignments followed by a final exam. I am going into it with mostly inevitability feelings, and somewhat of a "finally.. /sigh" feeling. I'll conclude on this topic once I get my final grades.