Friday, July 15, 2005
Karate or sleep?
Here's the question: Karate or no Karate?
Situation: I'm signed up for 16 hours / week of classes plus 12 hours/week doing SGA stuff (that's a very round-about estimate). Now the old rule of thumb is to budget the same amount of study time per day as you're in classes per day (about 4 hour studying every day, since I split mine evenly across the week). So my days end up looking something like this:
Morning stuff (whatever I put off the night before): 7-9AM
Class: 9 - 1
Lunch: 1 - 2
Study: 2 - 5
Nightly routine: 5 - ?? (meetings, homework, games, whatever else)
I generally only take 15 hours max because I'm notoriously focused on everything but schoolwork.
Karate isn't in that yet. It'd take up my Mornings (Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8-9:30, I think). It's only a 1 hour class, and I don't know how the grade is generated. It's taught by the l33t ninja Master Dinh. It's mostly free, I only pay the $30 course fee so I can get my bathrobe to fight in and dinky white belt to mark me as a wuss. Question is, can the boy who has done nothing but sit in front of a computer since May and gained 15 pounds doing it survive the course? I'm pounded with images of a friend of mine who took the course 2 years ago. He came to class every day dripping sweat. He was always full of energy, too.
My energy comes from a Starbucks doubleshot. Or two.
If any MSU students actually read this, have any of ya'll had Master Dinh's beginner's Karate? Is it worth it? I mean, really, how hard can beginner's Karate be, right? Or am I going to spend the first 2 months of school too sore to walk to my next class?
Just weighing on my mind. If I do go through with it, I'll let you know how bad it hurts. I'm rooming with a Taekwondo black belt who's been into Jujitsu lately, so I may just let him beat me into shape for free.
Ahh, college. ¶ 0 comments
Situation: I'm signed up for 16 hours / week of classes plus 12 hours/week doing SGA stuff (that's a very round-about estimate). Now the old rule of thumb is to budget the same amount of study time per day as you're in classes per day (about 4 hour studying every day, since I split mine evenly across the week). So my days end up looking something like this:
Morning stuff (whatever I put off the night before): 7-9AM
Class: 9 - 1
Lunch: 1 - 2
Study: 2 - 5
Nightly routine: 5 - ?? (meetings, homework, games, whatever else)
I generally only take 15 hours max because I'm notoriously focused on everything but schoolwork.
Karate isn't in that yet. It'd take up my Mornings (Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8-9:30, I think). It's only a 1 hour class, and I don't know how the grade is generated. It's taught by the l33t ninja Master Dinh. It's mostly free, I only pay the $30 course fee so I can get my bathrobe to fight in and dinky white belt to mark me as a wuss. Question is, can the boy who has done nothing but sit in front of a computer since May and gained 15 pounds doing it survive the course? I'm pounded with images of a friend of mine who took the course 2 years ago. He came to class every day dripping sweat. He was always full of energy, too.
My energy comes from a Starbucks doubleshot. Or two.
If any MSU students actually read this, have any of ya'll had Master Dinh's beginner's Karate? Is it worth it? I mean, really, how hard can beginner's Karate be, right? Or am I going to spend the first 2 months of school too sore to walk to my next class?
Just weighing on my mind. If I do go through with it, I'll let you know how bad it hurts. I'm rooming with a Taekwondo black belt who's been into Jujitsu lately, so I may just let him beat me into shape for free.
Ahh, college. ¶ 0 comments
