general study abroad thoughts, making heinlein references
My plans keep evolving for next year. I feel like I'm absolutely running out of time in undergrad. Knowing all of the exact classes that I have to take next year in order to graduate doesn't help, because I can no longer dream about taking viking classes or more classics courses, but instead I have to be satisfied with thirty hours of soulless requirements. Despite the tightness of my schedule and my total lack of room for electives, I'm still planning on studying abroad, even though I'll miss graduation if I manage to graduate on time.
Right now I'm trying to get to Peru to dig this summer. I got my first recommendation from Dr. Truemper, who is my beautiful inspiration for taking German and going into archaeology and who thinks that I am awesome for some reason, so I'm sure that it will be a great one. She's so ridiculously efficient, she sent me an email within 24 hours to tell me that she'd already mailed it in. The second is less forthcoming because Nic Terrenato never reads or responds to his emails and he's never in his office. I'm not sure when it is too late to ask a professor for a recommendation, but I'm pretty sure that less than a week of notice is fairly unforgivable. It's all due next Thursday. )= I am Anna, however, and this means that it will all fall into place at the last minute and I'll be fine. And then I will disappear into South America for a month and come back fluent in Peruvian Spanish and totally ripped from lifting rocks for nine hours a day, bwaha.
Next year I'm going to apply to go to Lancaster for spring/lent semester so I can spend the summer in Europe. Lancaster is near the Lake Country so it's cheaper and I can make pilgrimages to Wordsworth's cottage and catch trains to Scotland, and the English classes there are fantastic. It's a new university - I think it started in the 60's-but this means that the facilities are new, there will be technology and toilets that work, and maybe it will be easier to adjust to. It would be amazing to be able to stay long enough for Fringe, but there's no way I'll have enough money to stay until August. I'll make it some day, though. Fringe is just too important a life goal to miss. Also, studying in England is too important, and if I start making excuses about it, I expect someone to kick me back into applying for it.
I hope that someday it doesn't take the end of something to push me into getting things done. There are so many programs that I regret not applying for, and the reason that it feels like I don't have enough time is because so much of it has been wasted since I came to Carolina. Of course, I guess that time was valuable in that I used it to figure out what I wanted. I just wish that I didn't have to move so slowly through everything. Except that's not totally true, because I like that I know these things about myself, and it makes it easier to trust what I'm doing because I know that eventually something real and decisive will come out of it. You know, "waiting is," and whatnot.
Right now I'm trying to get to Peru to dig this summer. I got my first recommendation from Dr. Truemper, who is my beautiful inspiration for taking German and going into archaeology and who thinks that I am awesome for some reason, so I'm sure that it will be a great one. She's so ridiculously efficient, she sent me an email within 24 hours to tell me that she'd already mailed it in. The second is less forthcoming because Nic Terrenato never reads or responds to his emails and he's never in his office. I'm not sure when it is too late to ask a professor for a recommendation, but I'm pretty sure that less than a week of notice is fairly unforgivable. It's all due next Thursday. )= I am Anna, however, and this means that it will all fall into place at the last minute and I'll be fine. And then I will disappear into South America for a month and come back fluent in Peruvian Spanish and totally ripped from lifting rocks for nine hours a day, bwaha.
Next year I'm going to apply to go to Lancaster for spring/lent semester so I can spend the summer in Europe. Lancaster is near the Lake Country so it's cheaper and I can make pilgrimages to Wordsworth's cottage and catch trains to Scotland, and the English classes there are fantastic. It's a new university - I think it started in the 60's-but this means that the facilities are new, there will be technology and toilets that work, and maybe it will be easier to adjust to. It would be amazing to be able to stay long enough for Fringe, but there's no way I'll have enough money to stay until August. I'll make it some day, though. Fringe is just too important a life goal to miss. Also, studying in England is too important, and if I start making excuses about it, I expect someone to kick me back into applying for it.
I hope that someday it doesn't take the end of something to push me into getting things done. There are so many programs that I regret not applying for, and the reason that it feels like I don't have enough time is because so much of it has been wasted since I came to Carolina. Of course, I guess that time was valuable in that I used it to figure out what I wanted. I just wish that I didn't have to move so slowly through everything. Except that's not totally true, because I like that I know these things about myself, and it makes it easier to trust what I'm doing because I know that eventually something real and decisive will come out of it. You know, "waiting is," and whatnot.