options and life.
So I really don't have any sort of plan or marketable skill for my post-undergrad life (besides entertaining thoughts of China, peace corps) and I graduate soon. I keep remembering the British guy I met in Split. "I used to work as a banking manager in Bern... never thought I'd end up there... and thought even less that someday, I would end up owning a hostel in Croatia. Don't think I even knew where Croatia was when I was your age." (Which isn't saying a whole lot, since back then it was like a state in Yugoslavia, instead of its own country, and it wasn't advertised throughout Western Europe asm "The Mediterranean as it used to be." But that doesn't detract from his point: for some, the future *can't* be too far planned in advance, unless you're willing to make significant sacrifices).
as an example of how unprepared I am for things, I recently found out that I'm one medieval literature class away from completing a double major in French. how did I not even contemplate this before? not that it's worth worrying about. I'm taking 23.5 units right now, and there was no physical way I could have added on another course without exploding my brain. and, as my mom pointed out, majoring in French is not going to help me find work, although if I were going to work in the Bay Area anyway, then I might as well put off my degree to take that one last class while I'm working..
which brings me to the part where I haven't made abundantly clear to her that I am continuing with the plan to go to China after graduation. She was slightly suspicious when I asked her to mail off my passport to get additional visa pages (my god, it's actually full...), but I allayed them by saying, "They say it takes three months now to get replacement pages!" which I believed to be true, and, "So I'd rather do it now, than have to take a trip down to an American consulate in Mexico when I want to go somewhere."
all right.. I'm finally going to get cracking on my hw..
as an example of how unprepared I am for things, I recently found out that I'm one medieval literature class away from completing a double major in French. how did I not even contemplate this before? not that it's worth worrying about. I'm taking 23.5 units right now, and there was no physical way I could have added on another course without exploding my brain. and, as my mom pointed out, majoring in French is not going to help me find work, although if I were going to work in the Bay Area anyway, then I might as well put off my degree to take that one last class while I'm working..
which brings me to the part where I haven't made abundantly clear to her that I am continuing with the plan to go to China after graduation. She was slightly suspicious when I asked her to mail off my passport to get additional visa pages (my god, it's actually full...), but I allayed them by saying, "They say it takes three months now to get replacement pages!" which I believed to be true, and, "So I'd rather do it now, than have to take a trip down to an American consulate in Mexico when I want to go somewhere."
all right.. I'm finally going to get cracking on my hw..