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Ups and Downs
Mar. 19th, 2004 08:27 pmIt's finals week, which means the campus is eerily quiet. The bus isn't so full, the lockers at the IMA aren't so crowded, and even the hallways at the Med Center are the tiniest bit more empty.
I think the biggest stumbling block in my grad school application is my GPA from college. It's also the one thing I can't change - I can retake the GREs, rewrite my essays, and get newer, better reccommendations, but that stupid F in stupid Organic Chem 2 haunts me to this day. Way to make a GPA sink like the Titanic, man.
So classes. I think I want to try to wiggle into one or two of the intro Library classes come September - get them while in non-matriculating status, and save myself time, money and stress later. I should also start looking at classes for Spring and Summer Quarters.
Haven't yet. Rediscovered the Circuit Archive from a rec, so I've been poking through Bodie/Doyle while loading laptops at work. Also stumbled across a lovely recs site with Parselsmut recs, which are all about how (disturbingly) sexy Harry is while speaking Snake.
A week or two ago, I was idly thinking that I might want a part-time job for the summer, as classes come September would run over the tuition waiver limit, and then get expensive. I'd decided that Barnes&Noble would be just about perfect, as it was on my way home from work, convenient bus-wise, and hey! Employee discount!
In between buying cat food tonight and hitting the grocery store for people food, I wandered through B&N tonight, noticed a hiring sign, and picked up the application. I don't need to worry about tuition anymore, but extra book money might not be a bad idea.
And then I got home today to a notice from the County, making sure my address was correct for property taxes, and also, by they way, they haven't been paid yet this year, they're due at the end of April. I want to double check with my mortgage company, but I have a dreadful feeling that I'm going to have to come up with the money all by myself.
Yet one more reason to refinance - get those pesky taxes taken care of without making me panic twice a year.
As if I didn't have enough panic back in August buying the place.
I think the biggest stumbling block in my grad school application is my GPA from college. It's also the one thing I can't change - I can retake the GREs, rewrite my essays, and get newer, better reccommendations, but that stupid F in stupid Organic Chem 2 haunts me to this day. Way to make a GPA sink like the Titanic, man.
So classes. I think I want to try to wiggle into one or two of the intro Library classes come September - get them while in non-matriculating status, and save myself time, money and stress later. I should also start looking at classes for Spring and Summer Quarters.
Haven't yet. Rediscovered the Circuit Archive from a rec, so I've been poking through Bodie/Doyle while loading laptops at work. Also stumbled across a lovely recs site with Parselsmut recs, which are all about how (disturbingly) sexy Harry is while speaking Snake.
A week or two ago, I was idly thinking that I might want a part-time job for the summer, as classes come September would run over the tuition waiver limit, and then get expensive. I'd decided that Barnes&Noble would be just about perfect, as it was on my way home from work, convenient bus-wise, and hey! Employee discount!
In between buying cat food tonight and hitting the grocery store for people food, I wandered through B&N tonight, noticed a hiring sign, and picked up the application. I don't need to worry about tuition anymore, but extra book money might not be a bad idea.
And then I got home today to a notice from the County, making sure my address was correct for property taxes, and also, by they way, they haven't been paid yet this year, they're due at the end of April. I want to double check with my mortgage company, but I have a dreadful feeling that I'm going to have to come up with the money all by myself.
Yet one more reason to refinance - get those pesky taxes taken care of without making me panic twice a year.
As if I didn't have enough panic back in August buying the place.
