when we fall, we will fall together
Shalom haverim!!!
I'm freezing, for the record. For some reason there is no heat at work today, and its like 40 degrees with the ever-so-lovely New York wind chill factor. Awesome.
I probably already said this at some point, but I really can't believe its November and that this time next week I'll be packing to go to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving. Simone keeps wishing for snow while we're in Ohio, but my mid-western cousins and I are like SHUT-UP! NO SNOW NOOO!!! Its so crazy, once I get back from Ohio I leave again for LA a week and half later... then in another week and a half after that I'll be heading west for Winter Break. I guess when your life goes by in terms of essays and projects, it tends to speed the semester up a bit.
This weekend was one of the few weekends where I didn't have a journalism paper due, so I definitely took advantage of that. Tassia and I were craving mexican food, and its so hard to find good authentic mexican goodness out on the east coast, so instead of holding our breath that some new place will be good we were just like "eff it, lets go to Cheveys!" Not authentic in the slightest but always delicious. So Friday night we went and ate ourselves silly. This couple that was sitting at a table next to us looked at my fajita platter, and then looked at me and said "how are you possibly going to eat all that? You're so petite!!" Looks can be deceiving, because I'm sure you all know that I can eat as much as the average bear during the fall when he is eating to store food during hibernation. Tassia's friend Sterling was visiting this weekend, so we met up with him and then trekked back to 26th in the pouring rain to hang out and watch movies.
Saturday I walked all around lower Manhattan with Tassia and Sterling. We walked around campus, then took the train to Wall Street, walked from there past Trinity Church to the South Street Seaport, then down around the lower tip of the island, over to Battery Park City to see Lady Liberty from afar, then up to Ground Zero, back over to Trinity Church to catch the train to Union Square, where we hung out and saw the farmer's market and then got coffee at Barnes & Noble to warm up. Liz came down and we all had dinner at Patsys, family style, which always makes me happy. Something about passing plates around for everyone to taste is just really comforting, like we're, well, a family lol. After that I departed to go to the Streetlight Manifesto concert, which was SO MUCH FUN!! I had such a blast. I really hope that the part of me that enjoys live music to the extent that I can go and dance and be a bad ass for 4 hours straight never goes away. This was my third time seeing Streetlight, and I think it may have been my favorite time seeing them, because their set was very different then it has been. Much fun all around.
I've been kinda stressing out about "the future" lately. Not so much about after graduation, but how I'll be spending my remaining time at NYU. I decided to keep my current assistant job at the publishing company for one last semester, but thats it. I was originally thinking that this semester would be my last, and next semester I would start interning. But after talking things over with my academic advisers and my parents, I kind of convinced myself that it might be for the best to just stay at this job and save up my money so I won't be poor during Leah's Summer of Traveling Adventures. I won't be able to work this summer... who would hire a college student who needs 7 weeks off to go study in Europe? Yeah, no one. Plus, if I get an internship I want a journalism one, and I don't quite have enough classes under my belt to give me a good amount of experience in that regard.
So, my plan is as follows: same job next semester, summer study abroad, internship for Fall 2008 and a different internship for Spring 2009. Hopefully that will give me enough experience to land a decent job upon graduation. But I'm trying not to think about that just yet. I really hope that this plan is beneficial. It kinda worries me that I'm already half way done with my junior year and I haven't had an internship yet. I mean, my work in publishing definitely is a good step. I just hope I'm not screwing myself over in the long run.
I'm also trying to figure out the grad school stuff, if I should go, where I should go, when I should go. The problem is that I'm still not sure what I want to do. I know I want to write, and thats about it. I'm still feeling really strongly about environmental policy and issues of conservation, so I've been looking at graduate programs in that field. NYU offers a masters in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting, but do I want to have an AA, two bachelors AND a masters from NYU? Thats a bit excessive. Plus, this program focuses equally on health, science and enviro, where I strictly want to study enviro.
In searching through the UC system, it seems like all of them offer an Environmental degree of sorts, and eventually it is my goal to move back to California. UC Santa Cruz and Humboldt both have really interesting programs...
1. UC Santa Cruz: Ph.D. in Environmental Studies. Heavily focuses on conservation biology and policy analysis
2. Humboldt State: M.S. in Wildlife. Strictly focuses on wildlife conservation, species behavior and habitat structure.
But I'm also wondering if I can still report and work on environmental policy with just a BA in journalism and a BA in politics? AHHHH I don't know! its just so much to think about!
Speaking of college, Simone got into SF State! I'm so proud of her <3.
Alright, thats enough of my shenanigans. Until next time...
xo much love
I'm freezing, for the record. For some reason there is no heat at work today, and its like 40 degrees with the ever-so-lovely New York wind chill factor. Awesome.
I probably already said this at some point, but I really can't believe its November and that this time next week I'll be packing to go to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving. Simone keeps wishing for snow while we're in Ohio, but my mid-western cousins and I are like SHUT-UP! NO SNOW NOOO!!! Its so crazy, once I get back from Ohio I leave again for LA a week and half later... then in another week and a half after that I'll be heading west for Winter Break. I guess when your life goes by in terms of essays and projects, it tends to speed the semester up a bit.
This weekend was one of the few weekends where I didn't have a journalism paper due, so I definitely took advantage of that. Tassia and I were craving mexican food, and its so hard to find good authentic mexican goodness out on the east coast, so instead of holding our breath that some new place will be good we were just like "eff it, lets go to Cheveys!" Not authentic in the slightest but always delicious. So Friday night we went and ate ourselves silly. This couple that was sitting at a table next to us looked at my fajita platter, and then looked at me and said "how are you possibly going to eat all that? You're so petite!!" Looks can be deceiving, because I'm sure you all know that I can eat as much as the average bear during the fall when he is eating to store food during hibernation. Tassia's friend Sterling was visiting this weekend, so we met up with him and then trekked back to 26th in the pouring rain to hang out and watch movies.
Saturday I walked all around lower Manhattan with Tassia and Sterling. We walked around campus, then took the train to Wall Street, walked from there past Trinity Church to the South Street Seaport, then down around the lower tip of the island, over to Battery Park City to see Lady Liberty from afar, then up to Ground Zero, back over to Trinity Church to catch the train to Union Square, where we hung out and saw the farmer's market and then got coffee at Barnes & Noble to warm up. Liz came down and we all had dinner at Patsys, family style, which always makes me happy. Something about passing plates around for everyone to taste is just really comforting, like we're, well, a family lol. After that I departed to go to the Streetlight Manifesto concert, which was SO MUCH FUN!! I had such a blast. I really hope that the part of me that enjoys live music to the extent that I can go and dance and be a bad ass for 4 hours straight never goes away. This was my third time seeing Streetlight, and I think it may have been my favorite time seeing them, because their set was very different then it has been. Much fun all around.
I've been kinda stressing out about "the future" lately. Not so much about after graduation, but how I'll be spending my remaining time at NYU. I decided to keep my current assistant job at the publishing company for one last semester, but thats it. I was originally thinking that this semester would be my last, and next semester I would start interning. But after talking things over with my academic advisers and my parents, I kind of convinced myself that it might be for the best to just stay at this job and save up my money so I won't be poor during Leah's Summer of Traveling Adventures. I won't be able to work this summer... who would hire a college student who needs 7 weeks off to go study in Europe? Yeah, no one. Plus, if I get an internship I want a journalism one, and I don't quite have enough classes under my belt to give me a good amount of experience in that regard.
So, my plan is as follows: same job next semester, summer study abroad, internship for Fall 2008 and a different internship for Spring 2009. Hopefully that will give me enough experience to land a decent job upon graduation. But I'm trying not to think about that just yet. I really hope that this plan is beneficial. It kinda worries me that I'm already half way done with my junior year and I haven't had an internship yet. I mean, my work in publishing definitely is a good step. I just hope I'm not screwing myself over in the long run.
I'm also trying to figure out the grad school stuff, if I should go, where I should go, when I should go. The problem is that I'm still not sure what I want to do. I know I want to write, and thats about it. I'm still feeling really strongly about environmental policy and issues of conservation, so I've been looking at graduate programs in that field. NYU offers a masters in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting, but do I want to have an AA, two bachelors AND a masters from NYU? Thats a bit excessive. Plus, this program focuses equally on health, science and enviro, where I strictly want to study enviro.
In searching through the UC system, it seems like all of them offer an Environmental degree of sorts, and eventually it is my goal to move back to California. UC Santa Cruz and Humboldt both have really interesting programs...
1. UC Santa Cruz: Ph.D. in Environmental Studies. Heavily focuses on conservation biology and policy analysis
2. Humboldt State: M.S. in Wildlife. Strictly focuses on wildlife conservation, species behavior and habitat structure.
But I'm also wondering if I can still report and work on environmental policy with just a BA in journalism and a BA in politics? AHHHH I don't know! its just so much to think about!
Speaking of college, Simone got into SF State! I'm so proud of her <3.
Alright, thats enough of my shenanigans. Until next time...
xo much love