It's been hard to keep track of my posting! Blogging is actually pretty hard to do when you don't have internet at home. It's kind of awkward writing here in the Lafayette lab... I feel like four people are standing over my shoulder, watching me type and it's like, uhhh....
I met with my advisor this morning before my 11:00 Stats class. I got there before 10:00, and didn't leave until right before math class started, which is fine since the Geography Department is right next door to the Math Building. But anyway! I finally got to talk to my advisor, Dr. Koti, whom I already sort of worshipped based on bias because he was A. my advisor; B. Tanzania study abroad trip leader; C. Honors society Phi Kappa Phi leader-person-man. It actually gives me drive that I can be in more honors societies. It gives me an actual reason to try in college and care about my GPA. This whole caring-about-my-GPA thing is a new concept to me. It started in like, February of last semester, and I have a 4.0 to show for it (my first 4.0 since probably 6th grade).
Anyway. I don't see a 4.0 in my future for this semester! I feel like I'm trying, but I'm so so so busy, and then certain classes are just randomly kicking my butt, and I'm making big, non-college-related decisions during all this which sometimes literally makes it impossible to write reading responses or make time for statistics homework. Basically, my life has not been revolving around higher education. Somebody slap my wrist immediately.
Dr. Koti kept asking me what was my plan, what do I want my job to be, etc, and I love questions like those because it gives me a chance to be honest and say, "I don't know." I mean, I make the answer longer and more intelligent-sounding than that, but I'm essentially shrugging my shoulders. And he replies with, "Good." I found out some things today.
I had to accept by the end of our meeting that I could not take a swimming class this spring. I could not take GIS this spring. Instead, I would have to take Cartography and CIS 225 this spring, and take GIS and and CIS 236 this summer. Which brings me to the whole reason I'm even letting all this happen: I'm not studying abroad this summer. I was going to go to Tanzania this summer, but guess what? There is not Tanzania trip this summer! They are putting it off for next year! And when he told me that, I was surprised, yes, but what surprised me even more was that I wasn't very disappointed. I think there was some disappointment there, but mostly it was just relief. What?! I never thought I'd be relieved to hear that I can't do the most awesome thing ever. But I was. Because it frees me up. My money situation for studying abroad is incredibly impossible right now, and I was stubbornly going for it, telling myself it would all work out, but I can accept now that it was not for the best this summer. I mean, it's not like I don't get to go! I just don't get to go right now. Which is fine. Good, actually, because I know my money situation will make a lot more sense next year.
I think today I will call some organizations, like Sav-a-life, Salvation Army, and Northwest Alabama Reading Aides. I never thought I'd let time slip away so fast that I hadn't even started volunteering regularly and it's almost November. But it's gonna happen.
I met with my advisor this morning before my 11:00 Stats class. I got there before 10:00, and didn't leave until right before math class started, which is fine since the Geography Department is right next door to the Math Building. But anyway! I finally got to talk to my advisor, Dr. Koti, whom I already sort of worshipped based on bias because he was A. my advisor; B. Tanzania study abroad trip leader; C. Honors society Phi Kappa Phi leader-person-man. It actually gives me drive that I can be in more honors societies. It gives me an actual reason to try in college and care about my GPA. This whole caring-about-my-GPA thing is a new concept to me. It started in like, February of last semester, and I have a 4.0 to show for it (my first 4.0 since probably 6th grade).
Anyway. I don't see a 4.0 in my future for this semester! I feel like I'm trying, but I'm so so so busy, and then certain classes are just randomly kicking my butt, and I'm making big, non-college-related decisions during all this which sometimes literally makes it impossible to write reading responses or make time for statistics homework. Basically, my life has not been revolving around higher education. Somebody slap my wrist immediately.
Dr. Koti kept asking me what was my plan, what do I want my job to be, etc, and I love questions like those because it gives me a chance to be honest and say, "I don't know." I mean, I make the answer longer and more intelligent-sounding than that, but I'm essentially shrugging my shoulders. And he replies with, "Good." I found out some things today.
I had to accept by the end of our meeting that I could not take a swimming class this spring. I could not take GIS this spring. Instead, I would have to take Cartography and CIS 225 this spring, and take GIS and and CIS 236 this summer. Which brings me to the whole reason I'm even letting all this happen: I'm not studying abroad this summer. I was going to go to Tanzania this summer, but guess what? There is not Tanzania trip this summer! They are putting it off for next year! And when he told me that, I was surprised, yes, but what surprised me even more was that I wasn't very disappointed. I think there was some disappointment there, but mostly it was just relief. What?! I never thought I'd be relieved to hear that I can't do the most awesome thing ever. But I was. Because it frees me up. My money situation for studying abroad is incredibly impossible right now, and I was stubbornly going for it, telling myself it would all work out, but I can accept now that it was not for the best this summer. I mean, it's not like I don't get to go! I just don't get to go right now. Which is fine. Good, actually, because I know my money situation will make a lot more sense next year.
I think today I will call some organizations, like Sav-a-life, Salvation Army, and Northwest Alabama Reading Aides. I never thought I'd let time slip away so fast that I hadn't even started volunteering regularly and it's almost November. But it's gonna happen.
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