Already over my head.

THis is the second week of Grad school, and already I feel stressed with it. Oy, bad omen. It is my fault, I am taking 5 classes when I should only take three. My challenge is that I my interest is studying the underlying patterns within many disciplines, especially those which attempt to understand macro-phenomenon in a quanitative manner. I feel this puts me in a unique position to bring different professions together, but at the same time it hinders me from gaining a focus to my studies. Instead of narrowing, I still want to broaden. Right now I am in the Geography grad program. From this I hope to enhance my GIS and remote sensing capabilities. At the same time I want to gain a better grasp of statistical and economic modeling tools, computer programming, and math. I have finally cancelled out the idea that I want to eventually become a civil water engineer, which is good, but I still have no idea what I want to end up doing. The only anchor of focus is that I want to learn the tools (ie software) that are usefull for effective Geog, stat, and econ modeling and are attractive to employers.

My classes right now are:

Remote Sensing:
Hopefully this will be a good class to sharpen and knowledge of the subject and get experience using the software associated with applying it. I worry though that it will be too academic and not hands on enouph

Digital Image Processing:
This Class seems like it will be a more hands on version of the previous class. The good thing is each class will be using different software so I will get experience in both.

SAS Programming:
I am really excited to learn SAS. To clarify, SAS is statistical software tool that is very robust, and therefore complicated and hard to learn. It has its own language. Taking this will really help me at my work. I am able to edit programms that others have done, but after this class I should be able to make my own.

Math for Economics:
So far this is the most labour intensive class. I am taking it because I eventually want to take Environmental and Natural Rescource Modeling, which I tried but found that it was over my head.

Calculus 2:
This isn't a grad level class, but nevertheless it will require a lot of work. My reason for taking it. Math is the universal language of the physical universe, it will be usefull in whatever I do, or so
I'm told.