On Vox: Decisions
So Vox won't let me upload this song. It just remains loading for like 15 minutes, so I gave up. But go listen to that song, it is lovely and I see them again at Lollapalooza this year!!
in other news I got a phone call from the Indiana Language Institute yesterday. I am #2 on the waitlist since I applied a few weeks late, but I should definitely get in within a couple weeks they said. My tuition will be paid and, depending on funding, I could get a $2500 stipend for housing and food.
It is beyond inconvenient for me to go. We are buying a house. I have two horses and two dogs. I don't want to leave James....at all. I feel bad leaving him with animals to take care of. etc. He has never complained, so I should take that into account. This is an opportunity I can't miss, and...to be frank....it is only 8 weeks. We can make it work. I e-mailed my PhD adviser at Georgetown to see if I should definitely go or if there were other options. His response:
Dear Kristin,
I would highly recommend that you take advantage of this option if you can manage it. That is, to my knowledge, the best place you can go for the study of Serb/Croat, and Georgetown
offers no instruction in the language.
*rest edited for my privacy*
Profs from home said the same thing..."world renowned program for languages, if you can in ANY way manage it you must go."
Going for these 8 weeks will save me months of having to be abroad later to study the language, so in the end it benefits me being home. But God, never will money have been so tight as this summer since it means I will be making NO money, my expenses will still be there, and I will have expenses moving to indiana.
I still think I should do it. I can't think of a single opportunity I have ever passed on, no matter how hard it was to swing. If I ever had, I wouldn't be where I am. Can't start now!
Originally posted on kristinj.vox.com