Ah, my bad. D: You typed so properly that I didn't really notice you were only 15. : P Okay. I'm gonna assume you don't understand what units are then. Well, there's a requirement of having a certain amount of units you need to take in college in order to graduate, and then it gets complicated from there.
Since the economy is going downhill and public colleges need funding in order to have a lot of classes available, a lot of colleges have to cut back on having a certain amount of classes available which means they can't just have college students taking like ten classes if they think they can handle it. Usually, classes are "worth" about three units which means they usually meet only two times a week. There's only 16 units max a student can take a semester. I only take four classes a semester because one of my classes is Japanese which is "worth" a total of 5 units (because we meet four times a week). The other three classes I was taking (English, Critical Thinking, Liberal Studies for first semester; English, History, Oral Discussion for second semester) are three units each, so that means I'm taking a total of 14 units each semester which sucks because I have 2 units left before I hit the max, but there's hardly any classes that are worth 2 units, so I'm not really getting my full money's worth.
Whoa. I hope you can understand that better, but if you're still confused, don't feel bad! I still had no idea what college was until my junior year of high school.
I found a really good study abroad program for Japan for this summer, but we currently don't have the money for it, so I hope to visit next summer. It's really neat. You get to live with a host family and I think get a part-time job just for fun. If you do the study abroad during spring or fall semester, you get to attend a university in Japan during your stay.
Yeah, but it's kind of hard because not many people around me don't know how to speak English. XD; I'm mainly focused on teaching literature though. Teaching language is a separate program.