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a long december
Dec. 24th, 2003 10:08 amAnd there's reason to believe that maybe this year will be better than the last.
I am done, done, done, and done.
Grades are final as of yesterday, though I've known them for about a week now. 4.0 for this semester, which I had been hoping for, but not at all assured of. This marks the second (and last) time I make dean's list (the first was freshman fall).
As of the moment I left the house on Saturday, the upstairs sink, tub, and shower walls were clean. With any luck, they still are.
Graduate school applications are in the mail. CMU, MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UT Austin, Cornell, UMass Amherst. If I'm feeling frisky, I might throw together an application to U Maryland as well, since their deadline is the 15th. I still have reservations about dumping 6 or so years of my life into a PhD, but I know it's the only reliable way to be a college professor and have my research taken seriously.
I have graduated. The HUB hasn't clicked over my info or taken off next semester's tuition charge yet, but I am reasonably confident that they won't screw it up. And even if they do, I have Stehlik and Theresa and Kotovsky to tell them that they're full of stupid.
Talking about this almost feels like the finishing move in Eternal Darkness, where you stab the twitching enemy corpses into submission and get a sanity bonus for it.
I still feel very listless. I've been eating erratically, sleeping poorly, allergizing, and wandering aimlessly for the last few days. My work is 'done', but I'm not at peace yet. Perhaps in time. You know what really gets me? Every time I have a nice, long break, it has to be at home away from my friends. Wouldn't it be nice to just have three or four weeks where there's no work to do, but we don't have to all go home? :-)
I am done, done, done, and done.
Grades are final as of yesterday, though I've known them for about a week now. 4.0 for this semester, which I had been hoping for, but not at all assured of. This marks the second (and last) time I make dean's list (the first was freshman fall).
As of the moment I left the house on Saturday, the upstairs sink, tub, and shower walls were clean. With any luck, they still are.
Graduate school applications are in the mail. CMU, MIT, UC Berkeley, Princeton, UT Austin, Cornell, UMass Amherst. If I'm feeling frisky, I might throw together an application to U Maryland as well, since their deadline is the 15th. I still have reservations about dumping 6 or so years of my life into a PhD, but I know it's the only reliable way to be a college professor and have my research taken seriously.
I have graduated. The HUB hasn't clicked over my info or taken off next semester's tuition charge yet, but I am reasonably confident that they won't screw it up. And even if they do, I have Stehlik and Theresa and Kotovsky to tell them that they're full of stupid.
Talking about this almost feels like the finishing move in Eternal Darkness, where you stab the twitching enemy corpses into submission and get a sanity bonus for it.
I still feel very listless. I've been eating erratically, sleeping poorly, allergizing, and wandering aimlessly for the last few days. My work is 'done', but I'm not at peace yet. Perhaps in time. You know what really gets me? Every time I have a nice, long break, it has to be at home away from my friends. Wouldn't it be nice to just have three or four weeks where there's no work to do, but we don't have to all go home? :-)
