Making Plans

This post was written April 26, 2014.

So I discovered today, after waiting for almost six months, that I didn't get into UCI. You see, about halfway through my leave of absence from WUSTL, I decided that I wasn't ready to go back, and that perhaps I never would be. So I applied for a transfer to UCI and UCR. Didn't get into either. Getting in would have made planning the next year a lot easier, but in the last couple of weeks, I've realized that I'm not sure I want to go back to being a full-time student immediately. I have so much time to figure stuff out. It sucks not getting in. It feels like it was a ton of stress and effort and anxiety filling out and submitting the applications, because it was, and then even more anxiety and stress waiting for the admissions offices to get their collective asses in gear and tell me my admissions status. And it ends up being mostly for naught. I mean, in the process of writing the personal essays and transfer statements and whatnot, I did learn quite a bit about myself. But it's still bullshit, and I'm frustrated at not getting in. 

Now it's new plan time. 

Step 1: Get a job. 

Step 2: Get an apartment and roommates near-ish to job. Also furniture for said apartment. 

Step 3: Register for classes at the closest community college. 

Step 4: I don't know what's after that. 

One of the important things is that I not live with my parents for another year. It's rather stifling to live with them as a 20-year-old. It causes everyone to revert to the very specific parent-child relationship we had when I was a kid. But I'm an adult now, and we (my parents and I) need to learn to relate on an adult-adult level. It's important for everyone's sanity. But before all of that, I need to pass the classes I'm in now. Finals are in about 3.5 weeks, and I still have two tests before then. Crazy teachers. Adios for now. Next post will be on Tuesday.