June 29, 2014

 

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 I have a lot of skills that have gotten me pretty far in college - I'm a pretty good writer, I've got pretty good people skills, I have a pretty good short-term memory, and I know a little bit about a lot of interesting things. There is one skill that I've never seemed to pick up, however, and that is STUDYING. Which is kind of important.

My scheduled date to take the GRE (the entrance exam you have to get a good score on if you want any grad school to even consider you) is roughly a month away. I've checked out a pile of study books from the library and been staring at them for almost a week. How exactly does one do this whole "studying" thing? I'm one of the world's greatest crammers, but long-term studying is a little outside my skill set. It's very stressful ... I'm going to try to keep myself off the Internet and at least read through the study books tomorrow, and try to get some strategies mapped out ...

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On the bright side, I'm getting very excited about seeing where geographically I'm going to end up for grad school. I'm planning to apply to a decent handful of schools, mostly in the Midwest, but a few on the coasts and up north. Today I even wrote an inquiry to a school in England, just to be outrageous - can you imagine how incredible it would be to go to grad school in England?? To actually live on the island of my dreams? To be a hop, skip and jump away from Ireland and Scotland??? Think of how much I'd have to blog about then!  :-D

Seriously speaking, having never lived (or even traveled alone) away from home before, it's taken some adjustment to get myself feeling more excited than terrified ... sometimes I still feel pretty nervous, hoping I'll be able to do all those grown-uppy things like paying the bills on time, cleaning the apartment, fixing the appliances, changing flat tires, and balancing checkbooks, and not make too many messes. But everyone makes messes while learning to be a real adult, so I'm not too nervous. I mostly hope at this point that I'll be accepted into a school that will give me the education and experience I want, while also being located in an interesting place that will let me work with a lot of new and interesting people. Like England ...  *dangerous sound of heart expanding with hope*

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Welll, it's after midnight here and I have another busy day tomorrow, so I should probably get some sleep. I've been dreaming some very vivid adventures lately, so here's hoping I have another one tonight.  ;-)

Goodnight, dear sisters, and sweet dreams to you!!

Hugs,
Vicki