Goodness I haven't updated in ages!
Well I've been a very busy bee. Working like mad and studying like mad and planning for my move to NYC.
Yes the move is still full-steam ahead. Right now it looks like I can graduate on-time (almost) because I will need 24 credits after I transfer the maximum 9 they will let me, and full-time is 12 credits per semester. I plan to stay one extra semester (taking only one class) so that I can have more time to work on my thesis. The financial aid package they gave me was mainly loans. The package is like $59,000 and $11,000 was a scholarship. Tuition alone would be about $33,000 a year (not as much as I expected actually) so the rest of the loans will be used to by books, materials and pay my room and board (which will likely be off campus). I will have about $9,000 saved by the time I move so that will cover housing for a while as well. The plan is to take the full financially aid for this year and save enough that I don't need to take out any for Fall 2012. Then when I start my PhD in Spring 2013 (I hope) I can start taking loans again and I hope I will have done well enough to get some grants as well. I need to start volunteering again because that looks good on applications.
I didn't work out for like 2 weeks (well I did do a lot of walking but no Pilates or 30-day shred). I finally started again this week. And I am 141. So I gained 2 pounds after 2 weeks of feeling like I was binging and drinking like mad. Well I guess I've controlled myself better than I thought.
I've been doing well in school. After panicking and fretting about this one class I was forced to miss because of my boss, I got an "A" on the first assignment. My classmate, who sits in the front nodding annoyingly, as if she knows all the answers, did not get an "A." She had a dreaded sentence fragment and formatted a quote incorrectly. She actually was bragging about how he was going to make her assignment a model (meaning getting an A+) because she is so awesome. She said she only missed 5 on the grammar practice (I missed 9 and anything under 10 was considered great) and then she fucks up. She fucked up again on this assignment because she didn't know how to do a hanging indent. I fucked up because I have no idea what I am doing lol. But I think i still did better than her. She sits in front of me (or used to, I moved) and looks at my paper to see whether I missed whatever question we are on. She is obnoxious. But I guess since she is 22 and I am 30 I should tolerate it. She wants to be my friend so badly. I ignore her most of the time but I should be nice. Ahhh I'm getting soft in my old age.
I am pleased that as I've gotten older, I have gotten wiser, calmer, less self-destructive and overall better looking and more fabulous hahahaha.
I'm glad that my move to NYC is not me running away from something but running towards my future. I'm happy here and will be happy(er) there.
12:09 p.m. - 2011-04-01
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