i have almost successfully navigated my way through my first quarter. today was teacher conferences. being all alternative-y and such, evergreen doesn't issue letter grades. instead, the faculty write an evaluation. you also evaluate them and you have a big evaluation-fest where you learn and share and grow as a person or some such claptrap ( Read more... )

slept in. had breakfast. read the paper. started my laundry. bought some cigs and took a 40 minute walk in the process. it's ironic that much of my exercise comes from walking to the shortstop for smokes ( Read more... )

evergreen finally offered me a financial aid package! so i can be pretty confident i can afford to go to school ( Read more... )

...and thought to myself, "i'd better get to bed--it's a school day tomorrow ( Read more... )

...now there's an obscure allusion for you, and fairly appropriate for my collegiate sensibilities.

yes, i am a "greener."

i confirmed my acceptance from the evergreen state college this morning. i also got confirmation that the state would be willing to put out some additional money for the larger credit load that i need to take. my guy told me ( Read more... )

...just got a call from the evergreen state college.

all my paperwork from washington state is made out to south puget sound community college. it's also in olympia and i bet it's got some kind of code that is one digit off from evergreen or the last tow digits transposed or something else.

...got a call in now, trying to get this fixed!

it ( Read more... )

...went down to e.s.d. and got the paperwork going. got to go back for a test, monday morning, just to weed out people with totally unrealistic career-retraining goals (looks like that test pilot option is crashed before it took off, eh?). counselor says it should be no problem for me. another appointment monday afternoon ( Read more... )

evergreen has a time set aside for potential students to get walk-in admissions counciling today from 1:30 to 3:30. i will head up there. however i finalize things, i feel better for having done this. just sorry it took somebody else's words to crystalize these thoughts, or i could gave explored all of this sooner.

c'est la guerre

as i spend the day ruminating (just this one day), an interesting quirk. the steadfast gaelfarce mentioned that evergreen, here in olympia, which is a pretty respected hippie-school with high academic standards, apparently has some pretty serious computer science courses. i had always thought of them as more of a straight-up liberal arts gig and their ( Read more... )

so, while i get some new tunes, look at the sunday classifieds online and otherwise catch up on a few things, i will expand on current events with me just a tad ( Read more... )