Ah, Fuck!
Well, the past couple of days have been filled with good news and mega-bad news. And really, the mega-bad news isn't really catastrophic, so things are looking up for Mr. Muskrat.
Good news: I received an e-mail from Northern Arizona University. As you may or may not know, I had my 2nd interview over the phone last week. A lot of you know that I am very uncomfortable talking on the phone. So, I was pretty sure that I shat that opportunity right down my leg. Surprise! The e-mail said that they are "still excited" about my candidacy for a graduate hall director assistantship. Yay! While there is a "cut-off" line of a 3.0 GPA, the Counseling program there actually uses a sliding scale (combination of GRE scores and GPA). Thank goodness for my 1350 GRE score. So, I finished up my application to their graduate program last night. I should hear back from them before the end of the month. Sorry to say for all of my friends close by that if I get offered a job there (which I probably will, they seem pretty intent on getting me there), I'll probably take it over the USD position. If nothing else, I know when I go looking for full-time hall director positions in two years, it will look a lot better on my resume to say that I graduated with a Masters of Education in Counseling and Student Affairs than to say that I graduated with a Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Student Affairs and Higher Education (since I couldn't get into USD's Student Affairs or Higher Ed programs, I had to settle for combining the two programs in the Interdisciplinary Studies degree).
Also, I found out that my car insurance rates are finally dropping. They've been going up steadily for the past, hmm... 7 years. I thought that you had to be 25 for your car insurance rates to drop, but I guess American Family must set it at 23, or they must just be rewarding me for longevity with the company. Meh, I don't care; what matters is that my rate's dropping from $60/month to $44/month. Not bad for a 23 year-old single male who drives a sport utility vehicle.
Bad news: A lot of you know that I've been trying for quite some time (about two or three years) to try to get on Jeopardy! Well, for the first time, they offered an online preliminary screening test to determine if I could compete in the interviews. Well, they only offer it at one time per time zone. Tuesday, I thought I had missed it, and realized that *phew* it was on Wednesday. I told myself that I needed to write a post-it reminder so that I wouldn't forget. But, I couldn't find my pad of notes, so I told myself that, since it was so important, I wouldn't forget it. Around ten last night, I realized that I had missed it. It's not that I can't ever take it again, but that would probably have been my last chance to get an opportunity before I go off to grad school. But hey, L.A's only a six-hour drive from Flagstaff, so I guess I could interview at the studios there.
Good news: I received an e-mail from Northern Arizona University. As you may or may not know, I had my 2nd interview over the phone last week. A lot of you know that I am very uncomfortable talking on the phone. So, I was pretty sure that I shat that opportunity right down my leg. Surprise! The e-mail said that they are "still excited" about my candidacy for a graduate hall director assistantship. Yay! While there is a "cut-off" line of a 3.0 GPA, the Counseling program there actually uses a sliding scale (combination of GRE scores and GPA). Thank goodness for my 1350 GRE score. So, I finished up my application to their graduate program last night. I should hear back from them before the end of the month. Sorry to say for all of my friends close by that if I get offered a job there (which I probably will, they seem pretty intent on getting me there), I'll probably take it over the USD position. If nothing else, I know when I go looking for full-time hall director positions in two years, it will look a lot better on my resume to say that I graduated with a Masters of Education in Counseling and Student Affairs than to say that I graduated with a Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Student Affairs and Higher Education (since I couldn't get into USD's Student Affairs or Higher Ed programs, I had to settle for combining the two programs in the Interdisciplinary Studies degree).
Also, I found out that my car insurance rates are finally dropping. They've been going up steadily for the past, hmm... 7 years. I thought that you had to be 25 for your car insurance rates to drop, but I guess American Family must set it at 23, or they must just be rewarding me for longevity with the company. Meh, I don't care; what matters is that my rate's dropping from $60/month to $44/month. Not bad for a 23 year-old single male who drives a sport utility vehicle.
Bad news: A lot of you know that I've been trying for quite some time (about two or three years) to try to get on Jeopardy! Well, for the first time, they offered an online preliminary screening test to determine if I could compete in the interviews. Well, they only offer it at one time per time zone. Tuesday, I thought I had missed it, and realized that *phew* it was on Wednesday. I told myself that I needed to write a post-it reminder so that I wouldn't forget. But, I couldn't find my pad of notes, so I told myself that, since it was so important, I wouldn't forget it. Around ten last night, I realized that I had missed it. It's not that I can't ever take it again, but that would probably have been my last chance to get an opportunity before I go off to grad school. But hey, L.A's only a six-hour drive from Flagstaff, so I guess I could interview at the studios there.