The real world is coming faster than expected

This is how I would describe my MPH Epi program so far:

Fall Quarter 1: Oh, take a bunch of intro classes, a lot of review, not really do anything important.  What is the point? This is going to be so easy!

Winter Quarter 1: What is going on?! It started out looking like it would be easy, but everything was revisited and approached from a more real-life perspective with a lot of derivations, explanations, etc.  It was a little more confusing but not necessarily really difficult.  And SAS? oh goodness...talk about confusion.  But, a satisfying experience with the program in the end knowing that it is very useful and could help me get a job.

Now I am in Spring Quarter 1: This takes it all to a new level.  Everything is like scenarios of real things we would have to do in future career such as sifting through huge packs of information to find outputs to interpret, understand, and draw conclusions from.  It is very time consuming and takes a lot of mental organization.  It's like...here, we're going to throw this information at you, and you have to find a way to figure it out with very minimal notes.  I mean, we get notes...but they only help so much with the homework.  I've been scouring the internet for resources to help understand what it is I'm doing, trying to make sense of it all so I can answer the research questions.

I am now taking 20 credit hours.

Some of my classes are not going to be much work, but all of my classes will require a lot of reading and/or writing with most of them needing a lot of comprehensive analysis and such...

This will be a very busy, hectic quarter.

Still trying to touch base with my preceptor for my practicum this summer.  I hope she didn't bail on me because my advisor (who is currently in Europe) OK'd my practicum (with hesitation).  That, and hopefully dad successfully gets the SAS program to me this weekend so I can start working with data from NHANES in addition to my lit reviews to get a feel for my culminating project.  I also need to finish reading my journals for my lit review about NHANES and the research I am interested in.  Then meet with a lot of professors to figure stuff out such as how to use the database appropriately, how to use SAS better, and how to interpret things.  AH SO MUCH TO DO.

THENNN...I have two real classes only Fall Quarter 2.  The next quarter I'll be taking courses.  And I'll be adding the hours for my practicum and curriculum that quarter too as I work on my project and stuff.

Then...I"M DONE? WHAT? REALLY?

I NEED TO FIND A JOB TO STAY IN CBUS. I want to find a research assistant job because:
1) I doubt I'll find one in a field I am interested enough in.
2) I don't want to live in the middle of nowhere somewhere strange.
3) I am not ready to be tied down by a job, I want to figure out my life to know where I should live and stuff.
4) I need more experience before I get thrown in to do everything myself!

AHHHH!!!

And I'm still sick.  Waiting for my strep test to get back.  Either I do not have strep or it is not done.  Pretty positive I have strep.

WHERE ARE MY ANTIBIOTICS? gahhh...

I can't sleep. The mornings are awful because I'm sick.

AHhhh so much work to think about, and pleeeennnttyyy of work I need or should do.