here I go again on my own...
Well, it's been a while since I posted. Between work and the Gre I've been a bit reclusive. That and the dial up connection is getting to me... it's kinda making me not want to go to the trouble getting online at all some times.
Mainly I've been focusing on work, the GRE, and Dr. Nadel's website. I took the once hated professor up on his offer and that is going well despite my never really having designed a website before. My only problem is that he needs to get me the information for the website but it's been going on 2 weeks since I last spoke to him... and I already e-mail reminded him once last week. In the end though it will definitely be financially worth it.
Work is going really well. Starbucks all in all is a pretty decent place to work. It's not the most money I could be making but the long-term benefits may turn this gig into a more substantial job. After six months I get a raise making the wage much more liveable, not to mention that's when health insurance kicks in so long as I work at least 20 hours a week on average. Stock options and 401k stuff kicks in then as well. Like I said, there may be long term potential.
That's not really what I want to focus on now, however, mainly because I feel I really need to put my all into this grad school thing. I feel only half hearted about it at best some times. Like I'm only doing it to try and get a free education. Which, granted, I'd be a fool not to try it. I would love the outcome of teaching, however. Needless to say the future still freaks me out.
I figure if all else fails I'll try my best to take a leave of absence from Starbucks to go back to Italy and do the summer tutoring thing again, then come back here to a job at Starbucks that will, by that point, produce at least a liveable wage. I doubt I'll be back in Kentucky though, at least not for long, mainly because I feel I've outgrown this place. I need to spread my wings. I'll also use that time to really mill over Culinary and school and, likely, decide to say "screw you" to my loans and go there anyway.
Again, I really just need to focus on grad school now though and give it the old college try, pun intended. I got into UVM last year... and in a week we'll see if this studying is paying off as my GRE is on Halloween... so wish me luck. Hopefully between a bolstered GRE verbal score, a better writing sample and slightly tweaked letter of intent I can guarantee entrance and funding at grad school somewhere. Failing that it's the hard road.
Mainly I've been focusing on work, the GRE, and Dr. Nadel's website. I took the once hated professor up on his offer and that is going well despite my never really having designed a website before. My only problem is that he needs to get me the information for the website but it's been going on 2 weeks since I last spoke to him... and I already e-mail reminded him once last week. In the end though it will definitely be financially worth it.
Work is going really well. Starbucks all in all is a pretty decent place to work. It's not the most money I could be making but the long-term benefits may turn this gig into a more substantial job. After six months I get a raise making the wage much more liveable, not to mention that's when health insurance kicks in so long as I work at least 20 hours a week on average. Stock options and 401k stuff kicks in then as well. Like I said, there may be long term potential.
That's not really what I want to focus on now, however, mainly because I feel I really need to put my all into this grad school thing. I feel only half hearted about it at best some times. Like I'm only doing it to try and get a free education. Which, granted, I'd be a fool not to try it. I would love the outcome of teaching, however. Needless to say the future still freaks me out.
I figure if all else fails I'll try my best to take a leave of absence from Starbucks to go back to Italy and do the summer tutoring thing again, then come back here to a job at Starbucks that will, by that point, produce at least a liveable wage. I doubt I'll be back in Kentucky though, at least not for long, mainly because I feel I've outgrown this place. I need to spread my wings. I'll also use that time to really mill over Culinary and school and, likely, decide to say "screw you" to my loans and go there anyway.
Again, I really just need to focus on grad school now though and give it the old college try, pun intended. I got into UVM last year... and in a week we'll see if this studying is paying off as my GRE is on Halloween... so wish me luck. Hopefully between a bolstered GRE verbal score, a better writing sample and slightly tweaked letter of intent I can guarantee entrance and funding at grad school somewhere. Failing that it's the hard road.