IT'S DOOONNNNNEEE!!
My application for Trinity is officially DONE, in the MAIL and completely out of my hands AND hair!!
Which means I can finally rant about all the million and a half bones I have to pick with the WHOLE ORDEAL.
First of all. http://tcd.ie while very easy to REMEMBER, is NOT THE MOST USEFUL WEBSITE ON THE PLANET. I think I might be acquainted with the entirety of the Graduate Admission sections but I'm STILL completely in the dark on a lot of things and they DEFINITELY don't make it easy for someone to apply to them Internationally. I mean, about the only thing it said about International Students either A: Didn't apply until you got accepted or B: Was about your ability to speak English. And as I am just trying to APPLY and do, indeed, speak English, I just had a fun time wading through on my own. Thank you, internets, for having google.
Next issue. Sending 51 Euro overseas. It took me FOUR TRIPS TO THE BANK. Because everything went stupid in one way another the first three times I tried including one woman looking at me like I was insane and said I'd have to ORDER MONEY or something weird when I specifically did not want cash. Wtf. Had to go talk to other people. But in the end it cost me $40 on TOP of the fee just to do the wire transfer and I had to be there at a PARTICULAR TIME OF THE DAY. >OO Rampant insanity there.
POSTING THE THING WAS EXPENSIVE TOO. I spent $25 to get it over there as fast as humanly possible. And WHY did I have to do that?
WHAT IS UP WITH PROFS TAKING FOREVER AND A DAY TO WRITE YOUR LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION. I'm like. Keeley. Oh Keeley. I do love you, you are my favorite prof and I know this is going to be a GREAT LETTER but omfg if you don't hurry it up I am going to get a hernia and lose all my hair. SERIOUSLY. But I got it last night at 6, was a minute late for rehearsal with the over-controlling stage manager from hell, and clearly could not post it yesterday as I had intended. *SIGH*
And I swear I usually DO say "mailing." But apparently reading "POST IT TO ____" a million times over the past few days has warped my brain. It will get better, I am sure.
What else. OH THE CV. OH, CV, HOW YOU MADE ME HATE MY LIFE. Trying to understand how the European version worked and then tailoring it to an IRISH idea of a CV, oh my brain, it shut down long ago. Woe is me.
ANOTHER THING. On the application was a little square for a passport photo. I went and got that taken. I pulled it out to put it on...
The photo was almost twice as big as the square. DO THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT SIZED PASSPORT PHOTO?! I DON'T KNOW. I cropped it down so it SORT OF FITS. But I kinda couldn't chop off half my face so....yeah. Whatever. I cut it, I glued it, it's gone.
BUT ALL THAT ASIDE. It's done. It's gone. And as of RIGHT NOW, I am no longer going to spend time stressing over it as I have for the past week and a half. *___* Time to ENJOY LIFE AGAIN.
Which means I can finally rant about all the million and a half bones I have to pick with the WHOLE ORDEAL.
First of all. http://tcd.ie while very easy to REMEMBER, is NOT THE MOST USEFUL WEBSITE ON THE PLANET. I think I might be acquainted with the entirety of the Graduate Admission sections but I'm STILL completely in the dark on a lot of things and they DEFINITELY don't make it easy for someone to apply to them Internationally. I mean, about the only thing it said about International Students either A: Didn't apply until you got accepted or B: Was about your ability to speak English. And as I am just trying to APPLY and do, indeed, speak English, I just had a fun time wading through on my own. Thank you, internets, for having google.
Next issue. Sending 51 Euro overseas. It took me FOUR TRIPS TO THE BANK. Because everything went stupid in one way another the first three times I tried including one woman looking at me like I was insane and said I'd have to ORDER MONEY or something weird when I specifically did not want cash. Wtf. Had to go talk to other people. But in the end it cost me $40 on TOP of the fee just to do the wire transfer and I had to be there at a PARTICULAR TIME OF THE DAY. >OO Rampant insanity there.
POSTING THE THING WAS EXPENSIVE TOO. I spent $25 to get it over there as fast as humanly possible. And WHY did I have to do that?
WHAT IS UP WITH PROFS TAKING FOREVER AND A DAY TO WRITE YOUR LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION. I'm like. Keeley. Oh Keeley. I do love you, you are my favorite prof and I know this is going to be a GREAT LETTER but omfg if you don't hurry it up I am going to get a hernia and lose all my hair. SERIOUSLY. But I got it last night at 6, was a minute late for rehearsal with the over-controlling stage manager from hell, and clearly could not post it yesterday as I had intended. *SIGH*
And I swear I usually DO say "mailing." But apparently reading "POST IT TO ____" a million times over the past few days has warped my brain. It will get better, I am sure.
What else. OH THE CV. OH, CV, HOW YOU MADE ME HATE MY LIFE. Trying to understand how the European version worked and then tailoring it to an IRISH idea of a CV, oh my brain, it shut down long ago. Woe is me.
ANOTHER THING. On the application was a little square for a passport photo. I went and got that taken. I pulled it out to put it on...
The photo was almost twice as big as the square. DO THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT SIZED PASSPORT PHOTO?! I DON'T KNOW. I cropped it down so it SORT OF FITS. But I kinda couldn't chop off half my face so....yeah. Whatever. I cut it, I glued it, it's gone.
BUT ALL THAT ASIDE. It's done. It's gone. And as of RIGHT NOW, I am no longer going to spend time stressing over it as I have for the past week and a half. *___* Time to ENJOY LIFE AGAIN.