Classes for the next two years

I have a problem.

I took 19 hours last semester, and with clubs and a job, it killed me. They weren't all even hard classes, but just a lot of work.

However, as I'm signing up for classes in just over a month, I'm not quite sure what to do.

I am signed up to take 2 INTL courses, which will complete that major's classes. I also must take a CHNS/CMLT class for my minor, however I won't know which one to do until I get back from the summer. I also have to take 2 ECON courses before I graduate, and I was thinking of doing that with Dave next semester, since he said he was interested. Well, I would do one of those classes, not both. So that's 4 classes, which is 12 hours, plus continuing research with Dr. Tessman - 3 hours, plus HTA which is 1 hour (HONS 4000H). That's 16 hours right there.

Here's the catch: I really need to take HIST courses.

So do I not take a ECON course with Dave (he may not be able to do it anyway) and take a HIST course? Or take 19 hours?

The thing is, is if I take 19 hours now, I can get away with taking only 15-16 hours a semester from now on. That'll be really nice, I think. It would be 15 hours every Spring, and 16 hours every Fall, if I continue being an HTA. And that would include research.

But if I don't take 19 hours now, then I'll have to take 18 hours some other Spring, and if I go away next Spring and can't take so many courses because of an internship, I could have to take 18 hours my last semester here...

I'm not quite sure what to do from here though.

Maybe if I get the Pickering, and therefore don't have to work, then I should take 19 hours, and if not, then I should just take 16 hours with the HIST class, not the ECON class.

Then in Spring, if I go to DC, have a directed reading for HIST, HIST or ECON, and CMLT/CHNS? Then I'd have to take ECON both semesters my senior year. I'm not quite sure how I like that...

These are sorts of questions for advisors, isn't it? I'm just not quite sure what to do...I think I'm going to have to wait to make my decision after the Pickering results are out (if I even got an interview) and how I do/did in China. Because if I can get 3 credits in China, then I only need 2 more, so maybe I won't take a CMLT/CHNS class when I get back?

Boo.