Life update

[rallamajoop]

...and it's a pretty important one, which has already come up in conversation with a lot of people, but here's the short version: as of the beginning of this month, I'm back at university to start work on a PhD.

The whole story goes back quite a way longer: as many of you would have gathered by now, I've long had this problem where I hated my job

Comments

[k_chan009]

congratz!!! its great when you love something and actually get to do it!!! And i hope youi get that higher scholar ship...after all...no stress over money = better study and lifestyle :D

*FLAILS* I WILL BRING OVER A BUNCH OF BANANAS TO CELEBRATE! :D

[rallamajoop]

Thanks! <3 I'm still apprehensive about how a lot of things will work out, but I don't have any real doubts it was the right way to go, y'know? *crosses fingers on the scholarships*

Do we have a banana of celebration? Of victory? We so need to make that complete list! XD

[rallamajoop]

Thanks, on both accounts. ^_^ It's pretty much like being on contract for a three year job with a decidedly average salary (but some nice perks like cheap bus/movie tickets) as it is, but I've got good hopes it'll lead better places in the end too.

Congratulations and Good Luck!

[anonymous]

Aside from the type of engineering, that sounded *so* familiar

...except for the part where you have the hope and determination to make things better :p

Although, I felt the same way about my class as I do about my coworkers. The trips over to the Liberal Arts and Social Sciences for electives were always a welcome relief.

Re: Congratulations and Good Luck!

[rallamajoop]

Um, did you mean to be logged out here? Well, thank you anyway, whoever you may be. ^^;

The few electives I got to take in other parts of the university were still a highlight for me just because it gave me some low-stress variety, but fortunately I enjoyed most of the bulk of my main course too.

[anonymous]

I don't do LJ, but I like your writing.

Sorry if it was an odd thing to post. Like I said, I just empathized and wish I had the determination to do what you are doing.

[drayke_]

and had my final year thesis supervisors trying quite hard to convince me to come back and do a PhD by the end of it.
...I know exactly how you feel. My supervisor is doing the exact same thing for me, cept I missed out on scholarship applications for now - the topic wasn't raised until last week, well past the deadline :P

*hugs* and GOOD LUCK! It sounds fantastic (and I'm actually *really* interested in your topic too). Maybe I'll even understand it (well, the Technical aspect at least!)

[rallamajoop]

Hah, then your supervisor will have no-one to blame but him(?)self if you don't go in for it. Would you have considered it otherwise, or was it nice to have an easy way out of the question?

Thanks, I may need it yet! Though it is a pretty exciting area, even I'm not up on more than the basics of how all the network components work. My side of things is going to be based more on processing the data that comes out and figuring out what it can tell us - fortunately the computer science department has already had the network under development for years now and is looking for people to try it out with some practical applications. So that works out well. So far though, we're still figuring out what kind of data we want to *try* to collect, what's feasible to do without blowing the budget, etc, and that's likely to go on a good while yet. ^^;

[raging_tofu]

Oh wow, that sounds really exciting actually.
d=(^_^)=b Congrats and best of luck in getting that higher scholarship!