I decided that my time and energy would be better spent elsewhere. Which leads me to the course I ended up going with. The simultaneous deadline thing is still there, but mitigated by the fact that Linguistics 101 is an easier course. It's also a very useful one. Given that I expect my future work to continue to have a linguistic component, it seemed a good idea to go back to Square One for a bit.
Free days can be nice.
I haven't gotten bad vibes from any of my professors this semester, which is a good start. One must always be vigilant against Tortoise And The Hare Syndrome, and that hasn't always been my strong point. I have one classmate I've taken an immediate and extreme disliking to. I find this distressing, but the class should otherwise be okay. In the second class period, I began keeping a record of some of the aforementioned classmate's pearls of wisdom in the margin of my notes.