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Today has been humbling.

After hours of work, I realized that the undergraduate class in Discrete Mathematics that I was taking is simply going to take too much time out of a life that is already overstretched. So I dropped the course. I will still attend the lectures and discussions, but the homework assignments by themselves would have taken me ten hours each week to get correct, and I don't have that kind of time when working and handling my normal load here at graduate school. It sucks because I really love that class, but I can't afford to spend that much time on a subject that is not central to my degree now. I have too many other things to do.

It's funny, but this decision makes me feel a lot more grown up. I guess this is what life boils down to in the end. Choosing the correct path to accomplish your goals and not letting what those goals entail out of your sight. Being good at keeping that perspective, however, is kind of disheartening.