Tuesday, May 27, 2014

May 27, 2014

Things were accomplished today. Not as much as probably could have been, but it wasn't an entirely pointless day. When I woke up I strongly considered cleaning my room, something that most definitely needs to happen. But not today. Instead, I made progress on applying to grad school. I filled out the online application and sent that in. I also had my undergrad transcripts emailed to the college I want to go to.

I got an email back from the lady I emailed yesterday and she gave me the email address to someone else. I emailed that person, and along with saying the emailed transcripts might not count (which sucks because I paid fifteen bucks for them), they gave me a link that showed deadlines and all the enrollment requirements. For the life of me I couldn't find that information when I was clicking around their site. Every time I went to a page about applying or enrolling or anything along the same lines, I got the online application page or a PDF about the library science program. But now I have the information I need.

I still have to update my résumé, get two letters of reference, write a statement of objectives, and eventually have an interview. The résumé should be fairly simple when I find my latest one, just needing to add my job at the school. The letters of reference should also be fairly simple. The hard part will be the statement of objectives. That has held me up in the past because I really don't like writing about myself. Granted, I write about my life every day, but that is different. Or maybe it's not. Maybe I'm just over-thinking it.

Either way, that is my goal for tomorrow. Back in January I started messing around with a personal statement so I'll have to look back at that and see if there is anything useful. When I get my first draft roughed out I'll let my mom look over it and send it to the librarian at school to get feedback. She actually texted me today to see how the grad school thing was going. So tomorrow I need to at least get a rough draft written out. And possibly email the program director (whose email I was given by the second person I emailed today) and see about the emailed transcript. The first lady thought I would need to be accepted into the program itself before I could take classes. It would be nice if I just needed to be accepted at the college and then take a class this summer, but that enrollment closes on June 1st so that might be cutting it close. Enrollment for the Fall semester closes July 1st, and it would be nice if I could get everything in and actually accepted for the Fall semester, rather than waiting even longer.

Other things from today. I finished another cross stitch pattern, this a quote I saw on a picture of Tom Hiddleston, so who knows where it actually came from: “I can't buy your happiness. But I can buy you cupcakes, and let's face it, that's pretty much the same thing.” A funny quote and I like the layout I came up with. It'll be a fun one to make.

I also watched stuff. Several YouTube videos and a handful of episodes of The 4400. I've got four more episodes left in season two, and then two more seasons after that. I want to start watching Supernatural, something I tried doing months ago but I could only watch the first episode because the second wouldn't show up. That might be one to rent because it has eight seasons on Netflix and if I get sucked in I would definitely go over my cable data limit. Tonight I watched The LEGO Movie and Thor: The Dark World. I saw most of each movie in bits and pieces while we had them at the theater but never got a chance to see them all the way through. I enjoyed both of them, The LEGO Movie more though, because it was really funny.


Now I'm going to go to bed. Tomorrow I am going to wake up with inspiration coursing through me so I can knock out my statement of objectives.

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