Rethinking

[vvvexation]

I've only just now realized that it might actually be better for me to get a job and take one more year to graduate than to try and pack all these classes in when it doesn't look like I'll have an easy time getting through them (not now that all the medical crap that was supposed to be fixed by now has turned out not to be). I'd been thinking I couldn't afford it, but I hadn't been thinking clearly about how I was going to afford grad school; really I can't afford either without a job, so I may as well just find myself a job and finish out my undergrad career at a nice leisurely pace. It'll almost certainly help my chances of grad school admission as well, since I can spend the extra year improving my academic record and finding better people to get recommendations from. I just need to make sure I can still get financial aid (such as it is) for one more year. But if I can do that and find work, then damn that takes a lot of pressure off.

It puts a little pressure on in the short term, though, because this is the last week to drop classes and so any decisions I need to make along those lines need to be made pronto. Cue another bout of busy-ness. But running around to people's offices and such ought to be easier now that my body seems to've yanked itself into a Daytime Person kind of schedule. Knew there had to be some kinda benefit to that.

Comments

[khepriamon.livejournal.com]

Madame, if I could afford it I would happily underwrite the rest of your education. To find out why, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

kae

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I'm out of envelopes, but I'll assume you have a philanthropic streak specifically geared toward math/philosophy students.

[khepriamon.livejournal.com]

Er...yeah. I want to finance research into the Kabbalistic link between Fibonacci sequences, Phi, Goldbach's Conjecture and Keynesian economics. Whatever the hell that means.

Or it just means that I find you intriguing.

kae

[tentonnun.livejournal.com]

I've got your research right here:

42.


That is all.

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good plan. Be careful about financial aid - I ended up taking a year off to be able to afford my last year... and made so much money they wouldn't give me much. Working only part time should avoid that.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

They ought to give me loans at least. That's all they're giving me already anyway, because they think my parents ought to give me two thirds of their income and live below the poverty line.

[capnkjb.livejournal.com]

You too?

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Isn't it wonderful? I just found out I actually could get more if I stop being a dependent. Now I need to figure out if that means I need to file my own taxes this year and if so, what do I put down given that I didn't earn anything.

[persnicketus.livejournal.com]

The idea of taking time off or cutting down on classes seems intimidating or counter-productive at first, maybe, but I think you should do it. The only schedule you are required to finish school by is your own. Those were my helpful two cents. ;)

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was never an "ought to" thing for me, it was just that I was financially backed into a corner. I still might be, though...I need to make sure I can still get aid, as there are some finicky-ass requirements about how many units you have to be taking.

This is random.

[john-stewart.livejournal.com]

Hey V. Its Whit. I saw you through a comment on theferret's. Who is a Friend of a net friend of mine. Small world.

That was trippy.

doc@darqness.com

Re: This is random.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Woo. Small world indeed.