I'll be working for Habitat for Humanity for spring break '11 in Winter Haven, Florida. We get a pit stop in Atlanta, and we also get that Friday off to go to Daytona Beach.
No alcohol, which is a bummer, but overall I'm really excited. And this should go great on my CV.
I have never been to Florida in my life, so I'm really excited!
Skidfest, the local charity rock event that has been held every semester in a block of row homes known as Skid Row since 1990, has been denied a permit because of the university bookstore construction going on behind it. I knew this was going to happen as soon as I realized that the construction would take up the two parking lots that surrounded Skid, because it would severely limit access to the event. And you could feel it at the last one that the end was near when the cops closed the event
I had a bit of a faux-paus today where I cracked some joke that I wouldn't let up on, and the professor took me aside and told me that I might not be picking up on the social cues that I was ticking off some of the kids in the class.
I felt pretty embarrassed, although it reiterated to me what a great professor I have. It just reminded me that social cues and graces just are never going to be second-nature to me, and that I really have to remember when I should let my guard down and just fre
So Sister #3 told Sister #1 that I got money from our mother. I got an extremely nasty voicemail from my sister about how I need to stop accepting money from Mom, because I'm too old to do so and I need to support myself.
You would think she would have a point, except 1.) the only reason I need money from Mom at all is because my mom used my credit cards for things like keeping on the utilities- nearly everything on my card comes from that, it's why I have to pay 300 dollars a month, and th
Apparently my sister is still bitching about the fact that I went to IUP instead of University of Delaware, because it's so expensive to go out-of-state, blah blah blah. She bitched about my low GPA is keeping me from going to UD, which would have been so much cheaper.
Except not. University of Delaware eliminated in-state tuition for the graduate school program during the 2009-2010 school year. I would have been paying $24k a year for 2010-2011, and that would have been without living on-ca
Sometimes the best thing to do is face your fear head-on. I've been reading online a bit, about people who are or have failed out of graduate school. What I realize is that I'm not alone at all about feeling scared about failing, or realizing that I went into this process completely blind and uncomprehending about the pitfalls and troubles I could face. There's this interesting site by a woman who left her PhD program four years in. I thought it was pretty interesting:
Straight Talk
I start my classes tommorrow. Man. It's been a wild week...
Wednesday, I hung out with my friends from college- my buddy
Steve and all his former residents that are now entering junior year.
Kinda weird- those kids are now the same year me and Steve were when we
met during their freshman year. It was a pretty chill, laidback night-
we sat around drinking and watching Netflix while they smoked and I
watched. It was basically like any other time I've hung out with these
guys- which was a
Two years of grad school equals taking out about 41k in debt. Add the 26k I have in debt from undergrad. So I'm looking at about 67k total. Add in interest, and we're look at mid-70's kind of debt.
Crazy, huh? It does scare me to think about the amount of debt I'm taking on. I have to keep telling myself about the boy who calculated that he's taking out 64k in debt JUST for undergrad, and then I feel a bit better, but it's still crazy. I am lucky that I kept private loans to a minimum
Okay, so I'm starting school over in western PA at this school called IUP, which is 5 hours away from home. It's pretty far out. I'm not taking my car, so it's not going to be the easiest thing to get a ride to and back.
I recently found out that close to my hometown, and at my undergrad school, UD, there are plans to have Jason Mraz perform on September 28th, which is Tuesday. If I skip out on Monday and Tuesday classes, I could prolly swing going to the concert.
So herei
It was pretty great. The sun could have been better- it was slightly
overcast, but the humidity was low for a 92 degree weather day, which was nice.
I spent at least a good two hours crisping in the sun. I don't have to worry
about sunblock because I'm Filipino. We're genetically engineered to be
sunburn-proof. I've never gotten a sunburn in my life.
And it was just nice to see the various gay couples throughout Rehoboth. I
counted four couples holding hands, which just made me smile- e
UD Raises Tuition for 2010-2011 School Year You gotta love the logic of it. "We're raising the tuition because we have to cover the increasing financial aid demands of the students." Gee, you think maybe the fact that school is constantly raising tuition has nothing to do with the fact that more students need finanical aid? It's the out-of-state students that get really screwed though- their tuition has been raised 2k, and they're now paying $24,500.
I loved being a Blue Hen, and t
I got into a minor fender bender today, incidentally while I was going to make
an insurance payment for my mom's car, which I drive. I got distracted and ran
past the intersection and hit a guy's car. Luckily, since it was a low speed
area, it didn't do much damage- just a small dent and some scratches above his
tire. I gave him my number and am praying that the damage is less than 400
dollars so I don't have to use my mother's insurance and jack up the payments.
My nerves are shot right n
I FINALLY decided on where I'm going, and that's Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I realized the only reason why I was considering Millersville was because it's only an hour away and I could take my car, and other than that, Millersville doesn't really offer a whole lot. Like it doesn't have graduate housing, and it doesn't offer a wide variety of classes. I'm a bit wary about the fact that it's 5 hours away from home, and I likely can't bring my car as my 1999 beater couldn't handle a 300 mi
I got an A in Public History, an A in Theatre 104, an A- in, and a C in Italian. That means I got a 3.3 for the final semester of college, which brought up my GPA from a 2.64 to a 2.75. Alright!
I was over at my favorite bar tonight. I was there for an acoustic guitar show by a guy named Jefe. Afterwards, I was watching a good amount of people crying their eyes out. Because it was the Jefe show they'd ever see at the Deer Park Tavern as a college student, you know?
I was seeing one guy in particular. He was just bawling his eyes out, and comforting and being comforted by his friends. It went on for at least half-an-hour.
I had a bit of a cry later in the car- you
I got my acceptance letter to my back-up school yesterday. It's
this mid-sized public university in western Pennsylvania called Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, or IUP. Now I'm just waiting to hear back
from my first choice, Millersville. Either way, it's great to know I
have a place to go to no matter what.
All I have to do now is just make sure I pass Italian, and
things are good from here on out. It's strange how that's parallel to my
experience of the spring of 12th grade- I got
My whole family is bitching at me right now because I'm applying to this
school called Millersville Univeristy, which is, at an hour and a half away,
'too far' for me to go, and 'isn't a good school'. They keep bitching at me to
apply to a closer school in the area, and look at closer area schools, which I
have! They are either too good for me to get into, or they don't have my
program. Then they bitch about me about how I need to take educational courses
if I'm going to be a community col
Over at Adam Phillip's Yahoo group, I made a comment about how I felt a bit dirty for having sexual thoughts about Taylor Lautner, because he's all of 18 and that feels wrong to me somehow. Adam said that there's absolutely nothing wrong with having those kinds of thoughts about a young dude, because it's not actually a child I'm lusting over- it's a young man who's in terrific shape, and I shouldn't feel like there's anything about having salacious thoughts about the guy just because he's a goo
Does it every just spring up on you?
Right now, I'm feeling it. I'm writing up a CV for my professor to get him
to write a recomendation, and I realize...I peaked at the age of 20. I haven't
done anything noteworthy since 2007.
College started out great for me- I was a tutor, I was involved in a sport,
I had a job, I was involved in a lot of activities.
And then I transfer to UD, and I get it into my head that I'm John Walsh
from Fraternity Memoirs, and I don't do anything except
Today I attended the first funeral I've ever gone to. It was
for my sister's father-in-law, who died after a two-year battle with
liver cancer at the age of 55.
It was a pretty surreal experience, seeing someone I'd talk to
lying in a casket, dressed up like he was in life, and made to look like
he was just sleeping. That's the first time I've ever gotten that close
to a dead body, and man...something about that was just really strange.
The memorial service was pretty beautiful, and th
I just spent the day at my alma matter- we had an Alumni Lunch, catered by Capriottis. (It's a chain sub shop with really good sandwhiches.) It was pretty fun- reliving the good ol' days when I was just a kid and my biggest worries were whether or not I could get away with sneaking out of the boring assemblies without getting caught. After the luncheon I just sorta hung out with a few fellow alumni in the front lobby of the school, singing songs and laughing as we reminisced about times gone by
I got the heebie jeebies the other day when I was playing the game Farmville yesterday, and I got a notification that B.P. had done something to help my farm.
B.P. died back around August, an apparent suicide. He was only 22. After that, his father took over the page, giving us updates on stuff like the funeral. Then he started sending us stories about Brian. Now he's apparently using his son's facebook page regularly enough that he's playing Farmville under the name of his dead son
And all that jazz. Hope everyone is happy this Christmas Eve day.
As for me, I'm doing good. I had my best semester GPA at UD- getting a 2.975- almost a 3.0! I had two As in my 300-level history class, then a B- in geology and a C- in Italian. I'm satisfied with how I did this semester. My 2.975 brings my accumulative GPA from a 2.42 to a 2.53, which makes me feel good to finally have my GPA over the 2.5 line. Now if I can just get it to 2.66, I'll be good because that takes me into the B-
So I did spring semester registration. I might push around some classes, but right now I'm taking:
Italian 107
two theater classes
Two 400-level history classes
It's pretty good. I don't have any classes that start before 11 a.m., and I have Friday off. Which means Thirsty Thursday should be alive and well this semester.
The best part is that I got into the internship class- I'll be working as an intern with a company called Gore. I think I'll be helpin
