“The living, the living, he thanks you; as I do this day”
~Isaiah 38:19~

The ongoing issues I’ve had with this transfer have pretty much turned me off to pursuing any more school. I don’t want to complain but it’s been a huge pain to deal with. It’s not the classes or the teachers. It’s the death by a thousand forms and passwords that still aren’t completed and I still can’t remember. I’ve never known something to be so technologically complicated, even when I can get a person.

Here’s what happened, not that it matters. The credit totals for the counseling programs are essentially the same. But where Lincoln’s program had 9 hours (3 classes) of theology credits built into their program, UIS has those same hours but as additional counseling related classes. I had only had one class of the core left, plus one elective. But now I have the core class, the one elective, plus three more classes from UIS.

They thankfully counted last summer’s intensive as an elective. Both programs require two electives, so I’ve got one done. My brain has been trying to figure out the best way to fit the rest of these in. After this summer I’ll have four left, plus two semesters of internship (three if spread out). It’s official that (Lord-willing) I can start with internship next month which in addition to the hours includes a 2.5 hour weekly class time.

So I really don’t want to add anything else to that. With internship you’re making videos and transcribing your sessions and presenting things to the class. That seems like enough and my brain gets the aversion feeling when I think about trying to add anything else. But enough with that. I wasn’t really calculating that when I chose UIS, I just liked the idea of being in person and thought it didn’t seem like too much to add.