Two things that give me a little comfort in these situations are this:

"It's not the end of the world" and

"What's the worst that can happen?"

As humans I think it's easy to be scared of what will happen without looking at what the consequence will be.

Worst case scenario: Speech teacher is a jerk and fails us all for fun. I'm out $100 and three credits. If summer classes can't make up for them all, another semester is needed. It's only 9 bloody weeks anyway. That's a chance to work longer and make more money. And since I'm taking the year off to work, it's not as if I'm on a deadline to get to San Diego. (Don't need to move in before the year starts or something.)

More likely scenario: Speech teacher is a jerk who overreacts and likes scaring his students. Won't actually flunk the kids who do their work and do it well, such as myself.

I just kinda want this semester to be over, is all. Even if I have to take one or two classes, having most of them online will be a million times more of a relief. Maybe I can even take on extra classes that way too in case something goes wrong here.

-Chi <3