3:23 AM and I can't sleep
I'm wide awake at 3:23 AM and I'm slowly watching my life take shape. My application to Mississippi State's statistics program is under way. I already have two well respected alums of this university as references (woohoo). Now if my physics professor (who has work experience at said university) agrees to represent me, I feel pretty confident I'm in. Anyone else entering a graduate program that doesn't require the GRE?
If I can just work as hard as possible, I'll be done with my master's in statistics in two years from May. This will be my spring board into adulthood. I've already started looking at jobs with the federal government, and I like what I see: outstanding benefits, lots of room for promotion, and a solid retirement plan. My father-in-law worked for them as a civil engineer and just recently retired. He and my mother-in-law have about the most awesome life anyone could ask for.
I feel supremely confident that all I need to get through graduate school is the right motivation: a three bedroom home, financial security (finally), and colorful Colorado. Oh how I long to live in Denver. If I can just stay focused for two more years, I can have my dream life.
I'm thinking about all the different routes people take to achieve success: medical school, law school, engineering, education and to think lowly mathematics might possibly take me to the promise land.
Of course, it's not like once I'm accepted to Mississippi State, I have already achieved said success. I'm sure plenty of people crawl into graduate school like myself and can't finish. As long as I have the proper motivation and the appropriate work ethic, I hope I'll be able to finish.
I hope.
If I can just work as hard as possible, I'll be done with my master's in statistics in two years from May. This will be my spring board into adulthood. I've already started looking at jobs with the federal government, and I like what I see: outstanding benefits, lots of room for promotion, and a solid retirement plan. My father-in-law worked for them as a civil engineer and just recently retired. He and my mother-in-law have about the most awesome life anyone could ask for.
I feel supremely confident that all I need to get through graduate school is the right motivation: a three bedroom home, financial security (finally), and colorful Colorado. Oh how I long to live in Denver. If I can just stay focused for two more years, I can have my dream life.
I'm thinking about all the different routes people take to achieve success: medical school, law school, engineering, education and to think lowly mathematics might possibly take me to the promise land.
Of course, it's not like once I'm accepted to Mississippi State, I have already achieved said success. I'm sure plenty of people crawl into graduate school like myself and can't finish. As long as I have the proper motivation and the appropriate work ethic, I hope I'll be able to finish.
I hope.