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College-Goers And Graduates: Advise Me
Dec. 10th, 2009 06:30 pmI really do need to start planning this stuff now - cause I won't be back from China until July, and the fall semester starts in August. That's cutting it pretty close.
Considering: buying a new laptop (mine caught fire... remember?) I do have a computer. But my plan is kind of to use the school day, you know, when I'm not in class, to do the work for those classes. I'm going to have to do a lot of writing. I want to be able to work on my school stuff at school - I'm going to need to be able to use my computer at home and on the campus. Right? All students need laptops these days, right? It's kind of a requirement, a necessity? Cause other wise I'd have to wait till I got home to do my work, or hand-write stuff (ummm... I can barely read my writing...) and then type it later, or use the computer labs on campus, which wouldn't necessarily be available all the time... So I do need a lap top. Right?
Considering: living on the campus. I know, I know, I'm too old. Except not really. They have housing for upperclass students, transfer students, grad students, etc. I'm not that much older than a traditional graduate student, or even a transfer student. I lived on campus, um, once, for one semester, and I didn't like it. But that was in one room, not in like, upperclass apartment housing. Philadelphia is too expensive for me to live by myself. I don't even like living by myself. But I have no friends to move in with - I could just let the school throw me some room mates and live in school housing. Of course, I'm scared shitless about living with randomly assigned girls, but, I mean... I did this once already. It can't be that bad - right?
Considering: minoring in Chinese. I wonder how useful that would actually be? I need to be a full time student (for health insurance and for housing and to make the best use of the rest of my scholarship money) but I've already taken all my core required classes (and had I waited another year or two to do this, I would have had to start re-taking them, so... good thing I'm going back now...) and the classes I need are sequential. So it would take two years to finish, part time, and two years to finish full time as well. I just... have to add an extra class each semester. Might as well minor in something - and four more Chinese classes gives me a minor in Chinese.
Considering: does anyone actually know what they want to do with their education when they're only sixteen, and actually stick to it? Is that even possible, to know with such certainty what you want to do with your life that you take all the right classes in high school, go to the right college, start in the right program, right away, and in four years, have a job/are on your way to grad school? Does anyone even DO that?
Considering: buying a new laptop (mine caught fire... remember?) I do have a computer. But my plan is kind of to use the school day, you know, when I'm not in class, to do the work for those classes. I'm going to have to do a lot of writing. I want to be able to work on my school stuff at school - I'm going to need to be able to use my computer at home and on the campus. Right? All students need laptops these days, right? It's kind of a requirement, a necessity? Cause other wise I'd have to wait till I got home to do my work, or hand-write stuff (ummm... I can barely read my writing...) and then type it later, or use the computer labs on campus, which wouldn't necessarily be available all the time... So I do need a lap top. Right?
Considering: living on the campus. I know, I know, I'm too old. Except not really. They have housing for upperclass students, transfer students, grad students, etc. I'm not that much older than a traditional graduate student, or even a transfer student. I lived on campus, um, once, for one semester, and I didn't like it. But that was in one room, not in like, upperclass apartment housing. Philadelphia is too expensive for me to live by myself. I don't even like living by myself. But I have no friends to move in with - I could just let the school throw me some room mates and live in school housing. Of course, I'm scared shitless about living with randomly assigned girls, but, I mean... I did this once already. It can't be that bad - right?
Considering: minoring in Chinese. I wonder how useful that would actually be? I need to be a full time student (for health insurance and for housing and to make the best use of the rest of my scholarship money) but I've already taken all my core required classes (and had I waited another year or two to do this, I would have had to start re-taking them, so... good thing I'm going back now...) and the classes I need are sequential. So it would take two years to finish, part time, and two years to finish full time as well. I just... have to add an extra class each semester. Might as well minor in something - and four more Chinese classes gives me a minor in Chinese.
Considering: does anyone actually know what they want to do with their education when they're only sixteen, and actually stick to it? Is that even possible, to know with such certainty what you want to do with your life that you take all the right classes in high school, go to the right college, start in the right program, right away, and in four years, have a job/are on your way to grad school? Does anyone even DO that?
