One course at a time would be so much better

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That's incredibly impressive and a little scary.

I think "masochistic" is how most would describe it. I'm actually getting pretty overwhelmed with all of it.

I actually used that word myself. I like to joke that I'm one bad chem grade away from becoming a philosophy major.

Where I am, philosophy is a bad choice of "easy" major. The honors section of Philosophy 101 gives out 1 A per semester. And that's just 101. For a cake major, history is always a safe bet.

Or business.

Business probably isn't good thing to major in right now, though. I mean, you could hope that the recession will be over by the time you get out of school so that there will be jobs available, but that really depends on who ends up in office next January, and there's a very real risk of having Laffer as an economic adviser to the President.

This is called 'Block scheduling.' Cornell College, Colorado College, the University of Montana-Western, Tusculum College in Tennessee, and Quest University in British Columbia do it. You take one course a month, so completing your degree takes the same amount of time as at a normal semester-scheduled school.

There are many more schools that do 'Quarter Scheduling' (or, if they don't offer a summer term, they'll call it 'Trimester', making it sound as if the students are all pregnant with Bachelor's degrees) where you take two or three classes for each of three ten week sessions instead of four or five classes for each of two fifteen week sessions.

Most people, say the egg-spurts, do slightly worse on a block system, supposedly because the class-meeting sessions are so long they get tired brains before the end of the lecture/discussion. I've never done block and have no trouble with quarters. The only problem I'd forsee with block is that if you get sick for a week, you've blown your course.