Getting Ready for School

I got my new computer strictly for the benefit of my taking online graduate school courses this fall.  While I am still learning about all I can do with this new technology, I still need to focus on that original intent.  I finally have an email address based on my own name ( I really need to change it somehow here too) for school.  I am unsure how online classes work.  There are supposedly videos up on YouTube but that is one of the things I still haven't looked too deeply into.  Three of my classes are literary analysis based.  The first is on Herman Melville.  I will be going over eight of his novels.  Actually, it is seven novel and one collection of four shorter works.  Yes, it does include Moby Dick.  My second course is about the modern British novel.  I will have to read five works.  Three are from the early twentieth century and two are from the last twenty years.  The majority are by women.  At the rate I usually read, I can probably get through one book per day, although some of Melville's works might take two days to properly digest.  My third course is on late nineteenth century American poetry.  I have a two volume collection for that class.  I am guessing that the period falls between the two volumes, otherwise I would have only had to get one of them.  Each book is over seventy dollars, as well.  My final class is on technical writing.  I wanted at least one corse where the focus wasn't on literature, although I would have preferred something more creative. I need three more textbooks, each also over seventy dollars, new, for this class.  One of these books is out of print.  I know this because I was hoping to purchase most of my books through my store, but I'm afraid I might not get to do so.  I am worrying that I might be making a mistake.  I am only taking these classes a way to get letters of recommendation so I can transfer to an MFA creative writing program.  I have already told my advisor this, and he believes it is a good plan.  I haven't determined which program I hope to transfer to.  There are still a few other factors left to see where I would be going (my two best shorts would be UK and EKU).  Still, I am sure I can handle the coursework.  Yes, it has been over twenty years since I graduated college, but I know I can handle it.  Sorry if. today's post is rambling.  I didn't really plan that much ahead, and I am trying to write faster for when I will have slightly less time to compose my posts.  While I am sure to get through the reading fairly quickly, I am not sure what else I will need to do and how much time I will have to do it.  Anyway, I will just have to wait and see.