PatrickG
12-21-2008, 08:46 PM
There's been a lot going on and I figured I'd touch base with the lot of you, since I'm just the occasional commentator anymore, aside from the occasional megalomaniac rant.
So... I'm more than likely going to get my bachelor's degree finally. It will have been ten years coming, five of which I took off from school plus a shaky start.
I managed to keep going awhile after the murder of my roommate back in '07 but I just caved last fall (080 and took a late withdrawal in what should have been my last semester. I reapproached everything with a vengeance this year after the killer's conviction and came back with a plan to get substitutions to minimize my course load since financial aid is now gone.
Everything got approved... and even improved upon so that substitutions will replace one of my worst grades with an A. I had one class left that wasn't offered until fall and it's now going to be a directed study and another class which prior work will be applied towards. Now, i just need to come up with $5,000 in student loans by mid-January. Ha ha.
I'm in the midst of moving, also. Or I would be but every plan seems to fall through and so I'll be without shelter in two weeks if we can't sort it all out. my new roommate may move into my present apartment but the details need to be hammered out.
I'm looking at teaching on my bachelor's via a provisional certification program and saving for grad school -- or maybe law school. It will be nice if I can escape the $7 an hour trap I've been locked into. I don't get callbacks from better jobs right now and it feels like that "almost bachelor's degree" overqualifies me or underqualifies me for everything. About the best I could do without the degree is waiting tables and while I can (and am) doing restaurant work, there's something about waiting that just doesn't work out well for me. With most people I know facing layoffs, I at least feel secure that I have a job for now, one I'm unlikely to lose.
So... I'm more than likely going to get my bachelor's degree finally. It will have been ten years coming, five of which I took off from school plus a shaky start.
I managed to keep going awhile after the murder of my roommate back in '07 but I just caved last fall (080 and took a late withdrawal in what should have been my last semester. I reapproached everything with a vengeance this year after the killer's conviction and came back with a plan to get substitutions to minimize my course load since financial aid is now gone.
Everything got approved... and even improved upon so that substitutions will replace one of my worst grades with an A. I had one class left that wasn't offered until fall and it's now going to be a directed study and another class which prior work will be applied towards. Now, i just need to come up with $5,000 in student loans by mid-January. Ha ha.
I'm in the midst of moving, also. Or I would be but every plan seems to fall through and so I'll be without shelter in two weeks if we can't sort it all out. my new roommate may move into my present apartment but the details need to be hammered out.
I'm looking at teaching on my bachelor's via a provisional certification program and saving for grad school -- or maybe law school. It will be nice if I can escape the $7 an hour trap I've been locked into. I don't get callbacks from better jobs right now and it feels like that "almost bachelor's degree" overqualifies me or underqualifies me for everything. About the best I could do without the degree is waiting tables and while I can (and am) doing restaurant work, there's something about waiting that just doesn't work out well for me. With most people I know facing layoffs, I at least feel secure that I have a job for now, one I'm unlikely to lose.