176

That’s how many credits I estimate I’ll end my IU careers with. Just to put that number into perspective. The minimum amount of credits to graduate from Kelley is 128, the minimum amount of credits to take the CPA exam, 150 (granted I have not taken all the required courses). I don’t want to brag, but I give meaning to the term victory lap.

It might be a bit of overkill, but I’ve spent the last four years of my life relearning my culture, heritage, and most important becoming super Chinese. Learning Chinese is where a lot of the excess credit hours come from, if I was to optimize graduate date with course selection, I would have graduated last year, instead I chose to continue with improving my language skills and to seize a unique opportunity to study abroad for a complete year. While it might seem like I really enjoyed learning Chinese from the get go, it really wasn’t like that. At first I took Chinese because I would like more “marketable,” meaning $$$. It wasn’t until the summer of my freshmen year until I really started to put an effort into learning the language. Also side note, taking Chinese allowed me to not take any Gen-Ed classes. J

Having this many credit does have its benefits. Waitlists doesn’t exist in my vocabulary. Super senior status is the golden ticket to getting into any class you want. No more praying and waiting, directly pass go and collect 200 dollars. I have a huge gradepoint base, which means that a C here or there won’t have a huge, huge impact, but neither will all A’s :\.

After carefully selecting classes for my real senior year and reevaluating my major, I managed to pick up another major, so I’ll technically have a major in three different departments from Kelley if all goes according to plan. Hopefully that will make employer take a second look at me.

-MC