Going for a Masters in something you've never studies - have I lost my mind?

[SteveFoerster]

But Steve, there is no way to tell if your early warning system is valid. Maybe you're just sensitive to criticism, change, doubt, stressors, and fear of failure...all things that make the majority of people pull back and never attempt something they are totally able to do.

That's true, but at the same time an MA program is the sort of thing where one could err on the side of caution and take one course, then make an informed decision from there whether to double or triple up.

For example, I started my doctoral program a year ago, and all year I've only taken one course at a time in part because I'm absurdly busy and in part because of previous experience. For the first term of next year, however, I'm taking two, but now because I don't have to guess what that will mean for me and I know the program well enough to know they'll be two of the lightest workload courses in the program.