4 posts tagged “school”
6 months after I applied, I finally got accepted to CalState Fullerton! I'm so excited! I know it's not the greatest school around, but they have one of the best anthropology departments around. I had thought about applying to the bigger, more prestigious schools in the LA area, but then I decided that I'll get the same education at CalState. It's cheaper per semester, anyway. So, now I've got 1/2 of the work done, now i just have to figure out how on earth I'm going to pay for it. I haven't received any information yet about my financial aid. I know that I would have received financial aid had I stayed at Mt.SAC, so hopefully I will receive it at Fullerton as well! I'm so excited!
Seriously. I decided that I was going to just keep making pies until I got it perfect. It's not that I really even like pie, or that I have some special reason to make pies. It's just that I did something, didn't do it as well as I wanted, and now I'm going to keep doing it until I get the results I want. This is the same flaw in my character that has kept me in community college for the past 6 years. I think yesterday I got pretty close to success with double crust pie ; thankfully school starts tomorrow and I'll have something else to keep me busy. Over the winter break, I've read I don't know how many books, wasted hours with the Wii, and spent way too much time in the kitchen. Tomorrow I get to start the last algebra class I will ever have to take, and I won't wonder what I'm supposed to do with my days off. Anyway, here's my peach pie.
This time I took some advice and separated the crust dough into two Ziploc baggies before I put it into the fridge, and then I cut the up the sides of the bags and rolled the dough out while it was still in it. Came out well enough that I was able to crimp the edges and had a little dough left ever to make it cute. Now I'm gonna go eat some more of it, cause it was really yummu.
I just took my last final of the semester. With luck, I passed both of the classes I took. This was the first semester that I've given up on trying too hard to get an A; I just wanted to pass with a C and be done with it. Why, you ask? Because I've finished all of the classes for my major, and now I'm just trying to finish the few classes I need to transfer to real college. I'm going to be able to transfer to university in the fall (finally), and I only have three classes left to take: the last half of Elementary Algebra, Statistics, and a "life-long learning and understanding" class (I chose Psychology of Sexuality). I've stopped caring about A's, because I know that as a tranfer student who is only planning on going to a Cal State, I can hopefully get in pretty easily.
Sometimes I wish that I had bothered to take the extra classes I needed in high school that would have allowed me to go straight to university, but I think that with my inability to stick to things, I would've ended up at community college in the long run. I think I was destined to be a 26 year old junior in college. Oh well. I think that I'll end up the happier for it, since now I know what I really want to do. I've found that of the people I know who went to college, the ones who surfed around for a while before finding something they were truly passionate about are much happier in life than the one who went straight to college from high school and picked a major just to graduate in four years.
One should not be defined by one's career, but it happens. I don't want to end up like some of the women at my work: 65 years old, making $10 an hour after working there for 40 years, unable to retire, and having lived the "get over it" life that is retail. I may be 30 before I even get my bachelor's, but isn't thirty the new twenty, anyway?
Reasons Why Being at Home Is Better Than Not Being at Home:
1) No one cuts you off at home.
2) You don't have to wait in line.
3) You don't have to explain 16 times to some stupid woman that her $3.00 eyeshadow case was, in fact, already returned to her Macy's card.
4)There is beer at home.
5) They aren't doing any construction at home.
6) You don't have to cover the Clinique counter.
7) There are fewer stupid people.
8) Your part-timer doesn't call in sick and leave you to do all of the counter work in twenty minutes before the regional vice-president comes to visit your counter. In fact, there are no part-time positions at home.
9) You don't have to drive all the way to class, only to find out that class is cancelled for the evening and end up waiting in traffic for thirty minutes just to leave the parking lot.
10) There are cute boys at home.
It's been a very, very, very, very, very bad day. I'm glad to be home.
