If you know me, and my life, you would be aware that I have a
bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders. If you also
know me, you know that I need to go to graduate school to get any sort
of job in the field of speech therapy. Since I was an average student in
college who decided to balance a social life, clubs, and academics, I
earned mostly B's and C's in my classes. I'm happy with those grades; I
passed IS, and I graduated. Graduate school is not happy with those
grades; no schools accepted me last year.
Fast
forward! 6 months later (exactly), I am being proactive! I'm re-taking
the classes that I didn't do so hot in (and kicking ass), and I'm
volunteering with the speech therapy services at the hospital where I
work. I'm attempting to get some really good letters of recommendation,
and at the same time, I'm writing a really AWESOME personal statement
that will make tears flow from those admissions people's eyes!
Fast
forward! 5 days after I had already started this post, I got apathetic
about writing this, as well as with my applications. I need to edit my
personal statement because I'm not happy with it, and I am apparently
selling myself short. I need to finish it and send it to my people who
need to write my letters of recommendation. I need to send my GRE scores
to a few schools, and my transcripts to all of them. This is going to
be tiring. What I would really like to do is take an entire day that I'm
off (this Friday sounds good), and do all of that crap. Pay for the
GRE, for transcripts, and finish my stupid personal statement and send
it to my people.
I went through all of this once, and I
think I just got tired of it and don't want to do it again. I wish the
process were so much easier, where most or all of it was online and I
didn't need to send hard copies of things to admissions guys. I need to
clean my room and my desk and get more organized. Then I'll finally be
able to concentrate. I did come down with this weird throat/nose
sickness this week. I come home, or I stay home, and I just want to stay
in bed, miserable. It's been a total downer.
My first
application is due in a month. I'm freaking out a little because I
don't want to miss the deadline. It's the application for The University
of Toledo (where my friend Marshall resides, shout out to YOU!!!). I
wouldn't mind going there because there are people there and near there
whom I really care about. The crappy part is that they ask for a
personal statement all about why I chose that program blah de blah. So
now I get to write a second one just for UT. I hope it's worth it.
Well,
enough bitching about graduate school. Many of us have to go through
this tough stuff, so it's not like I'm the only one. I'm tired, my
throat hurts, and I miss my boyfriend. I'm going to bed. I love you all,
good night.
My final bitchy moment:
HOW COULD HE HAVE NOT WON SEXIEST MAN ALIVE?!?! I mean, come on!!!!
