Hey everyone,
So I know you've been perhaps, maybe (highly unlikely) waiting for me to update this blog with some sort of final solution. The fact of the matter is this: I'm not going. I'm taking a year off, and I don't know what I'm going to do still, but I'm taking a year off... at least.
I know it may seem like a sudden and unreasonable choice, but it's necessary, for me. I'm still trying to figure out who I am and what I want to do with my life. Of course, that does not mean I am giving up completely. I am taking a year off, after all, but I have plans, potentials for that year. I am looking into two opportunities, outside of just staying at home and working and getting my license and all that.
Option A: Teach For America
Teach for America would give me an opportunity to go somewhere, anywhere, and just... teach. I would be a teacher, or a teacher's assistant, for some underprivileged children in America. It's meaningful, would give me experience, and relatively interests me. I don't mind the idea of it at all, and it might let me get to a place where I have to grow up.
Option B: AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps, much like Teach for America, gives me an opportunity to give back to this blasted country. Now, I know that America has had its ups and downs and may be pretty much hated by the entire world, but the people are okay. It's really the people who we let run our country that suck. And all the old people who refuse to die so us young people can let our radical, loving, world-changing views take over. Seriously, we might not have all of these problems if we let, for like 4 years, the president be some 25-yr/old, fresh out of college or something, become a dictator and just whip the country into shape. No strings attached. Nothing but a more controlled 20-yr/old vice-dictator to make sure they don't make any too extreme decisions that would ruin the country completely.
Anyway, AmeriCorps looks like a fun idea too, except it pays probably less than TFA does, even though they both get benefits. And with AmeriCorps you have to be drug free. Not that I do drugs, but I've grown to liking this liquor stuff. I'm just a martini girl *shrugs*.
Anyway, that's what's going on. I will explain more later as I continue to think things through. However, as of now, those are my plans. We will see what happens.
~Kathia
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18 October 2010
A journal entry -- 17 October 2010
Hey bloggers,
I am writing today another journal entry, from my actual journal. It goes, like this:
"Dear Journal,
Fall break is next week. I was spending some time trying to look up classes to take come Spring 2011. While searching, I soon noticed there were no classes that honestly sparked an interest. Maybe I've taken all I could bear to take here at UNC. What's more troublesome is my shallow belief that maybe I've wasted a lot of my time here as well. It'd be terrible to discover that the last three years of my life were traveled in vain, or that my academic endeavors thus far were ultimately unwanted or unwarranted.
"Lately, people inquire if I truly wanted Psychology. I will admit, I love the subject, but would be wanton of me to declare it is the only thing I enjoy. I'm quick to answer thusly, "I like it, but I could have majored in anything". That suggests -- exposes? -- my desire for change, desire to start over. I do, honestly, love psychology, but I also love art, photography, writing, mathematics, and all of the natural sciences. My interests are so broad and far-reaching; it's amazing I managed to focus, for any amount of time, on one thing.
"Alas, I suppose that this too, this "path", may have been, in and of itself, "fated". Does it not make sense that here unto a person, such as myself, be thrust a fate permitting of only the most superior challenges? Has then, my whole life, been not the plagues of one sorrowfully inept at choosing? That, perhaps, my qualms are without due cause? And, in the greatest shock of all, my anxieties birthed not from the conflicts thereof, but from the sheer note that no conflict need to be had? Yes, I propound that it be quite possible for my cardiac tumult being the reaction to unnecessary strains. Mootly put: I needn't stress over making a decision, because said decision has already been made. Suggestive of predestination. Understand? I ache not because I don't know what to do, but rather because I have not emancipated my self to affirm what has already been decided.
"Well, I suppose there's no time better than the present to confirm the future what it's been denied thus past.
"I'll go. I want to, I suppose. I need to, I know. Therefore, simple conclusion, I shall. Why delay? Why fight? Why impede the coming of the inevitable? Take what you've been dealt, yes? It is our way. It is what's best."
End Entry.
~Kat
I am writing today another journal entry, from my actual journal. It goes, like this:
"Dear Journal,
Fall break is next week. I was spending some time trying to look up classes to take come Spring 2011. While searching, I soon noticed there were no classes that honestly sparked an interest. Maybe I've taken all I could bear to take here at UNC. What's more troublesome is my shallow belief that maybe I've wasted a lot of my time here as well. It'd be terrible to discover that the last three years of my life were traveled in vain, or that my academic endeavors thus far were ultimately unwanted or unwarranted.
"Lately, people inquire if I truly wanted Psychology. I will admit, I love the subject, but would be wanton of me to declare it is the only thing I enjoy. I'm quick to answer thusly, "I like it, but I could have majored in anything". That suggests -- exposes? -- my desire for change, desire to start over. I do, honestly, love psychology, but I also love art, photography, writing, mathematics, and all of the natural sciences. My interests are so broad and far-reaching; it's amazing I managed to focus, for any amount of time, on one thing.
"Alas, I suppose that this too, this "path", may have been, in and of itself, "fated". Does it not make sense that here unto a person, such as myself, be thrust a fate permitting of only the most superior challenges? Has then, my whole life, been not the plagues of one sorrowfully inept at choosing? That, perhaps, my qualms are without due cause? And, in the greatest shock of all, my anxieties birthed not from the conflicts thereof, but from the sheer note that no conflict need to be had? Yes, I propound that it be quite possible for my cardiac tumult being the reaction to unnecessary strains. Mootly put: I needn't stress over making a decision, because said decision has already been made. Suggestive of predestination. Understand? I ache not because I don't know what to do, but rather because I have not emancipated my self to affirm what has already been decided.
"Well, I suppose there's no time better than the present to confirm the future what it's been denied thus past.
"I'll go. I want to, I suppose. I need to, I know. Therefore, simple conclusion, I shall. Why delay? Why fight? Why impede the coming of the inevitable? Take what you've been dealt, yes? It is our way. It is what's best."
End Entry.
~Kat
21 August 2010
Grad School: Why think about it?
Some of you -- if there are any of you, here -- may want to know why I have been seriously thinking about going to graduate school. I reckon now is as good a time as any to express why I've come to this conclusion (decision). Following are the several reasons why I have chosen going to grad school is my best option thus far.
22 June 2010
Staying focused: The beginning of a long journey
Hey Readers!
Perhaps you are wondering why it's been so long since the last post. Well, the problem with trying to learn about grad schools is that it is very time consuming. Also, it requires something very great from all of us: staying focused. That's why, this post will be about how to stay focused on your goal.
My mind is very flustered at the moment. Nothing is going on, and yet I find it hard to advance in my research of schools. I almost want to call up the schools in advance and ask them my chances of getting into their schools. I want to find out more about the schools I am looking at, especially the ones that I feel I have almost no chance of getting into, but think would provide me with the best experience. Graduate school is a dreadfully scary topic to consider. However, for many of us, graduate school is the only option if we want to really advance with the field we love, or at least, the field in which we are most comfortable.
Perhaps you wonder what sorts of things will help keep you focused. I am sorry, but I cannot really tell you exactly what to do. However, I do have a list of things I am sure may be useful!
Perhaps you are wondering why it's been so long since the last post. Well, the problem with trying to learn about grad schools is that it is very time consuming. Also, it requires something very great from all of us: staying focused. That's why, this post will be about how to stay focused on your goal.
My mind is very flustered at the moment. Nothing is going on, and yet I find it hard to advance in my research of schools. I almost want to call up the schools in advance and ask them my chances of getting into their schools. I want to find out more about the schools I am looking at, especially the ones that I feel I have almost no chance of getting into, but think would provide me with the best experience. Graduate school is a dreadfully scary topic to consider. However, for many of us, graduate school is the only option if we want to really advance with the field we love, or at least, the field in which we are most comfortable.
Perhaps you wonder what sorts of things will help keep you focused. I am sorry, but I cannot really tell you exactly what to do. However, I do have a list of things I am sure may be useful!
14 June 2010
Step One: Make a Chart, Make a Chart, Make a CHART!!!
Hey readers!
So I'm not sure how long it has been since my first post. Maybe it's only been a few days, I can't remember. Anyway, I have been fiddling around with this blog and have been trying to find a functional layout that makes the blog both inviting and useful for readers. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave comments. I'm sure there's a widget I can add to the blog for comments and suggestions as a free flowing thing. That being said, on to my recent activities.
In our last entry, I discussed how I was feeling about the whole grad school thing and the different factors that came into my mind. I mentioned how I had to question not only myself, but the schools I was looking at and pretty much general statistics. Today, it finally hit me on how to make this a lot simpler to consider. Many of us college students are famous for our ability to run on 4-hours of sleep and attend to five complex tasks at once. Of course, this may also suggest that some college students may not be particularly awesome multitaskers (don't worry, we are), but that these college students may simply be very scatterbrained! It's very easy to get sidetracked when you are a busy college student. For myself, it was just dealing with multiple extracurriculars, maintaining a decent gpa, and trying to receive the social aspect of the college experience; but these things could become overwhelming and made making more focused decisions difficult.
While looking at all of these graduate schools, I had to narrow down so many things, and I didn't know where I was going with it all. I knew what the big picture was that I wanted, but I can't just apply to every school in the country that offers an accredited MSW degree! Too expensive and too risky. So, to overcome this, I did the only thing I knew to do: I made a chart.
So I'm not sure how long it has been since my first post. Maybe it's only been a few days, I can't remember. Anyway, I have been fiddling around with this blog and have been trying to find a functional layout that makes the blog both inviting and useful for readers. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave comments. I'm sure there's a widget I can add to the blog for comments and suggestions as a free flowing thing. That being said, on to my recent activities.
In our last entry, I discussed how I was feeling about the whole grad school thing and the different factors that came into my mind. I mentioned how I had to question not only myself, but the schools I was looking at and pretty much general statistics. Today, it finally hit me on how to make this a lot simpler to consider. Many of us college students are famous for our ability to run on 4-hours of sleep and attend to five complex tasks at once. Of course, this may also suggest that some college students may not be particularly awesome multitaskers (don't worry, we are), but that these college students may simply be very scatterbrained! It's very easy to get sidetracked when you are a busy college student. For myself, it was just dealing with multiple extracurriculars, maintaining a decent gpa, and trying to receive the social aspect of the college experience; but these things could become overwhelming and made making more focused decisions difficult.
While looking at all of these graduate schools, I had to narrow down so many things, and I didn't know where I was going with it all. I knew what the big picture was that I wanted, but I can't just apply to every school in the country that offers an accredited MSW degree! Too expensive and too risky. So, to overcome this, I did the only thing I knew to do: I made a chart.
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