Make a point to make no sense
The summer seems to be slipping from my fingertips. Matt and I have now been living together in a house in Lexington, Virginia for about 6 weeks now. I've been doing research on African democracies and Leftist legacies with a politics professor for the past 6 weeks. Matt has been working at a carpet factory for the past 3 or 4 weeks. There are only 3 or 4 more weeks before Matt leaves and my research ends. Then another week or two and school begins. It's all happening too fast.
Matt got accepted into UT Knoxville, but he can't decide if he wants to go or not. They didn't accept him into the engineering school, so he can't take any engineering classes. He can only take other gen. ed. type classes, try to bring up his GPA, and apply again to the engineering school in the spring. Anybody from UT got any advice?
As for myself, I'm already starting to get nervous about next year, and the rest of my life, of course. I just realized that next year is what really matters for all of us Class of '08 Grad School Bound students. Junior year is what is going to be most indicative of your ability to learn, at least in the eyes of the people reviewing applications and whatnot. Sure, they'll look at the whole picture, but if you have a sudden slump junior year, that could change their opinion of you. I'm so terrified that I won't be able to make it through.
Emotionally, I've been pretty stable and happy. Summer always has a nice mix of boredom and excitement. The other weekend we went to a theme park and had a lot of fun, and last weekend we visited my dad and grandparents in North Carolina. At home, we spend a lot of time playing Pacman, the Atari, talking, cuddling, doing crossword puzzles, and reading (we finished reading aloud "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood a few weeks ago- I'd read it before but Matt hadn't- and now we are reading aloud "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"). So, we've been keeping ourselves occupied.
Girl-in-love-blabber: I love being able to go to the grocery store with Matt and shop for cartfuls of food and stuff for the house. I love how he always calls me on his way home from work to let me know he's almost home. I love cooking dinners together. I love collaborating on household chores. I love doing laundry together. I love giving and receiving back massages. I love making his lunches to take to work everyday and including a note on the napkin. Basically, I love all these simple little things that we do for each other and together... things that I guess I shouldn't enjoy normally... but doing them with him/for him makes them more enjoyable.
Anyway, the long and short of this is that I'm (hopefully) coming to Memphis for a week or so in mid-August. I'll let ya'll know what the deal is with that whenever I figure it out.
Matt got accepted into UT Knoxville, but he can't decide if he wants to go or not. They didn't accept him into the engineering school, so he can't take any engineering classes. He can only take other gen. ed. type classes, try to bring up his GPA, and apply again to the engineering school in the spring. Anybody from UT got any advice?
As for myself, I'm already starting to get nervous about next year, and the rest of my life, of course. I just realized that next year is what really matters for all of us Class of '08 Grad School Bound students. Junior year is what is going to be most indicative of your ability to learn, at least in the eyes of the people reviewing applications and whatnot. Sure, they'll look at the whole picture, but if you have a sudden slump junior year, that could change their opinion of you. I'm so terrified that I won't be able to make it through.
Emotionally, I've been pretty stable and happy. Summer always has a nice mix of boredom and excitement. The other weekend we went to a theme park and had a lot of fun, and last weekend we visited my dad and grandparents in North Carolina. At home, we spend a lot of time playing Pacman, the Atari, talking, cuddling, doing crossword puzzles, and reading (we finished reading aloud "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood a few weeks ago- I'd read it before but Matt hadn't- and now we are reading aloud "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"). So, we've been keeping ourselves occupied.
Girl-in-love-blabber: I love being able to go to the grocery store with Matt and shop for cartfuls of food and stuff for the house. I love how he always calls me on his way home from work to let me know he's almost home. I love cooking dinners together. I love collaborating on household chores. I love doing laundry together. I love giving and receiving back massages. I love making his lunches to take to work everyday and including a note on the napkin. Basically, I love all these simple little things that we do for each other and together... things that I guess I shouldn't enjoy normally... but doing them with him/for him makes them more enjoyable.
Anyway, the long and short of this is that I'm (hopefully) coming to Memphis for a week or so in mid-August. I'll let ya'll know what the deal is with that whenever I figure it out.