Free falling
If there's one good thing that's come out of this job, it's that I am once again a morning person, and an early morning person at that. I love getting up early on my days off (6am is technically early, but think about this: I'm still sleeping in by 3 hours), before the sun rises. Making my coffee with the kitchen light on, looking out the back door. It's always so still and calm. It's a great way to start my day.
Plans for today include looking at a multitude of graduate schools, and requesting every scrap of information that I can. I'm hoping to narrow down to my decision here in about 2 weeks (it's crunch time in academia - worst time possible to be thinking about school), so that I can send off for letters of recommendation, records, etc. I know that my first choice school is University of Washington in Seattle (yay,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cavaling!, thanks for the tip!) because they've got the perfect program for me. Also, the location is ideal. Out west I'm also looking at Berkely & San Diego. Here in the midwest, I'm looking at Wisconsin, SIU (Illinois), Indiana University, Purdue, University of Iowa. East coast I'm browsing through Boston, North Carolina, and Virginia.
I also need to call and register myself for the GRE - hopefully it won't take TOO long to get my results. Which also means that I need to go to the bookstore and pick up study materials. Hopefully I'll be taking that in a couple of weeks as well.
This is nice - I have some sort of direction. Amazing the clarity that comes with it. It's also weird to be thinking about being back in school, and prepping for it. I just hope I get accepted somewhere. If I don't, it might break my heart.
Plans for today include looking at a multitude of graduate schools, and requesting every scrap of information that I can. I'm hoping to narrow down to my decision here in about 2 weeks (it's crunch time in academia - worst time possible to be thinking about school), so that I can send off for letters of recommendation, records, etc. I know that my first choice school is University of Washington in Seattle (yay,
cavaling!, thanks for the tip!) because they've got the perfect program for me. Also, the location is ideal. Out west I'm also looking at Berkely & San Diego. Here in the midwest, I'm looking at Wisconsin, SIU (Illinois), Indiana University, Purdue, University of Iowa. East coast I'm browsing through Boston, North Carolina, and Virginia. I also need to call and register myself for the GRE - hopefully it won't take TOO long to get my results. Which also means that I need to go to the bookstore and pick up study materials. Hopefully I'll be taking that in a couple of weeks as well.
This is nice - I have some sort of direction. Amazing the clarity that comes with it. It's also weird to be thinking about being back in school, and prepping for it. I just hope I get accepted somewhere. If I don't, it might break my heart.