State of the Me
Jan. 27th, 2010 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Haven't made a post, in a couple of days,so I thought I'd let you know what was up.
I completed my Exeter application, today, in terms of everything but the financial aid paperwork, so that's a weight off.
That being said, I'm still hoping against all reasonable expectation for my Emory application to be accepted, and to that end I have a meeting with Dr Gary Laderman, sometime next week, regarding my work, and my place at Emory. He's a regular, at my job, so I introduced myself, and he found that we had a lot of people in common. When I told him about my Emory application, he said to e-mail him if there was anything he could do. So I did. I told him about my areas of study and interest, and why I felt I'd be a good fit, there, and what I thought I could offer, and now he wants to meet, in the next two weeks. I am exceedingly hopeful about this. All good thoughts, petitionary prayers, or sacrifices to Dark Gods accepted.
I'm still fairly pissed that the Emory application was hamstrung due to people not stepping up and taking responsibility. Granted, I took a while to actually ask people, and it was kind of last minute, but I own that mistake. That was my bad. But I notified these people, when we were working together, that I would be seeking letters from them and, rather than simply saying "No," then, they waited until I was in the middle of the application process. This is irksome.
But it is also water under the bridge. The time for recriminations has passed, and nothing said now can change what has happened. But, when I am accepted, what I say Then may mean that someone else doesn't have to experience the same frustration in the future.
If I had a million dollars, I would learn forever. You know that, right? I would basically become David Xanatos, with better designed robots.
Just saying.
Time to go back to work.
I completed my Exeter application, today, in terms of everything but the financial aid paperwork, so that's a weight off.
That being said, I'm still hoping against all reasonable expectation for my Emory application to be accepted, and to that end I have a meeting with Dr Gary Laderman, sometime next week, regarding my work, and my place at Emory. He's a regular, at my job, so I introduced myself, and he found that we had a lot of people in common. When I told him about my Emory application, he said to e-mail him if there was anything he could do. So I did. I told him about my areas of study and interest, and why I felt I'd be a good fit, there, and what I thought I could offer, and now he wants to meet, in the next two weeks. I am exceedingly hopeful about this. All good thoughts, petitionary prayers, or sacrifices to Dark Gods accepted.
I'm still fairly pissed that the Emory application was hamstrung due to people not stepping up and taking responsibility. Granted, I took a while to actually ask people, and it was kind of last minute, but I own that mistake. That was my bad. But I notified these people, when we were working together, that I would be seeking letters from them and, rather than simply saying "No," then, they waited until I was in the middle of the application process. This is irksome.
But it is also water under the bridge. The time for recriminations has passed, and nothing said now can change what has happened. But, when I am accepted, what I say Then may mean that someone else doesn't have to experience the same frustration in the future.
If I had a million dollars, I would learn forever. You know that, right? I would basically become David Xanatos, with better designed robots.
Just saying.
Time to go back to work.
