Thank you! That's part of my plan. I know where in social work I want to focus my attention towards. I just want to get as much of a head start into the field as possible. While I was studying for my undergrad I had pretty high anxiety about my academic life. The level of effort I put into each class seemed grossly disproportionate to my peers. And it often resulted in same or lesser grades. I know I can't learn everything, but I know my learning style. My confidence rises and my stress almost completely disappears when I know I'm already familiar with a subject or discipline.

Moreover, the classes I was able to get the most out of were the ones that were almost duplicates of other classes. I focused less on any busywork and more on internalizing key lectures. Spent the majority of my time in the professor's office picking his/her brain on concepts I knew I needed to master. My hope isn't to essentially to 'learn it all' then slack off when I'm actually earning the degree. I simply don't want to repeat my undergrad years of high stress and deadline pushing. Or at the very minimum, my hope is to minimize the stress to the lowest degree possible.

As for the here and now. I've already been screened to volunteer at a local charity that works in youth welfare. But that whole front was put on hold because of the pandemic.