Birthday. 29. Each one feels less significant than the last. Just another normal day. Went to school, did my readings, did some homework, slacking now with an entry. So it goes
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Your right, I have my sister, my BIL, and my Mother's Birthdays memorized. That's it, I try to remember GF's B-days. :)
However I do care, and I want to discuss how my oh-so stellar SB GPA did limit some of my options for nursing school, graduate school, and eventually the doctorate. Of course I now have a long history of doing much better in school same as you.
Yes some of the more prestigious schools are going to be blocked to you. I was allowed entry into my NP based on my ASN GPA a 3.5 and conditionally on my first two classes. The difference was that it was a smaller program and I could talk/sell myself to the director of the department.
Which is where I am going with this, that may work for you also.
I guess I have to apologize for not being sociable for the past...five months is it now? I was sure I would have been able to jugle my online socializing with my irl socializing, but that seems to be not the case. I hope you still know if you need to bitch to me about anything, I'm only an email or a phone call away (or even a train ride if you were feeling so ambitious)
On a side note: You're doing a heck of a lot better than I am on the education front. Ever since Fall of 2001, I've never been able to really get back into going to school or complete any kind of class and I still don't really know why. Atleast you've gotten the motivation back. Be proud of that and I'm sure some grad school would take you if you decide to go that route (even if that means moving out of state).
That would like that very much as well. JC is having a party in a couple weeks with danish tacos and I couldn't help but remember your parties way back when. I'll have to make sure to bring some nice beer and have a drink and toast in your honor.
Wish I had more insight on the schooling. I miss going to classes & note taking but I don't miss Nassau Community college much at all. Your GPA picked up tremendously since the first stint in college which I would hope counted for something. What would the Grad field be? Would NYU or a city university be an option?(The dropout can only presently recall NYU..oops).
Queens has a Masters program and is pretty cheap. I came pretty close to attending there. It was a three-way fight between there, Stony Brooklol and and NYIT. I'm in the latter now (they're pretty bad).
It is private but looking at the tuition page it's only like 20% more expensive than SBU so it's not unreasonable. Or at least any more unreasonable than any other graduate tuition lol.
For what it's worth, I totally share the whole detachment thing. I've sort of restructured everything so that I can get a constant stream of acceptance-from-peers with a healthy dose of being-talked-about. These are much shorter in effective duration than long-term connections, but they actually happen instead of being mostly mythical. The nice side effect is that other people sometimes feel the long-term connection thing as a result, which is pretty cool and gives me an additional minor ego boost
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Yeah, the short-term connections are pretty nice but it's still the long ones I yearn for. I think you're pretty awesome and enjoy whatever connection exists between us so enjoy your ego boost :)
I know I don't have to do the Masters thing right away, and the more I think about it the more I think that maybe I'm not ready. I love learning so much and I see the entire field of knowledge in front of me and I want to learn it all, I don't really have any focus on a specific, narrow direction to learn in that's typically expected of education at a level higher than a BA. Of course, if I don't go, I don't even know what alternative I might want to do. But I suppose that's my own issue to deal with.
It helps, but I'll take your vindaloo sauce anyway. It better be hot enough to burn the doubt away! lol
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However I do care, and I want to discuss how my oh-so stellar SB GPA did limit some of my options for nursing school, graduate school, and eventually the doctorate. Of course I now have a long history of doing much better in school same as you.
Yes some of the more prestigious schools are going to be blocked to you. I was allowed entry into my NP based on my ASN GPA a 3.5 and conditionally on my first two classes. The difference was that it was a smaller program and I could talk/sell myself to the director of the department.
Which is where I am going with this, that may work for you also.
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On a side note: You're doing a heck of a lot better than I am on the education front. Ever since Fall of 2001, I've never been able to really get back into going to school or complete any kind of class and I still don't really know why. Atleast you've gotten the motivation back. Be proud of that and I'm sure some grad school would take you if you decide to go that route (even if that means moving out of state).
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I know I don't have to do the Masters thing right away, and the more I think about it the more I think that maybe I'm not ready. I love learning so much and I see the entire field of knowledge in front of me and I want to learn it all, I don't really have any focus on a specific, narrow direction to learn in that's typically expected of education at a level higher than a BA. Of course, if I don't go, I don't even know what alternative I might want to do. But I suppose that's my own issue to deal with.
It helps, but I'll take your vindaloo sauce anyway. It better be hot enough to burn the doubt away! lol
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