So, I, um, dropped out of grad school today.
Technically, I only e-mailed my professors today to notify them, and I won’t be calling the school till Monday to make it …
The Archives: School
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So, I have a small paper due tomorrow. Until this evening, I hadn’t done anything about it — I figured I’d just put it off until there was no …
I got home from Vegas about half an hour ago, and mmm, it’s good to be back. I wish I had all sorts of juicy stories to tell — …
I just have to say that I’d much rather be at church all day than here in class all day.
‘Nuff said.
So I’m sitting here at a lab in the UNLV Lied Library, waiting for my advising appointment (which luckily got bumped up an hour — underpromise and overdeliver is definitely …
I’m reading Lewis Thomas’s The Medusa and the Snail, and the other day I came across his brilliant essay entitled “The Health-Care System”:
As a people, we have become obsessed with …
I love downtowns. There’s something about them — something alive, something spine-tingling, something mysterious — that’s got me hooked. So many interesting things. So many intertwined lives …
It’s snowing. A lot. And I’m tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to …
10. Library stuff
My master’s degree is an online program, which means no in-person classes other than occasional seminars (once a semester). And that means no constant reminders to do my homework. …
11. Comment issues
Hmm, WordPress marked three recent comments of y’all’s as spam, and I’m not sure why, seeing as there weren’t any links in them. They’re back up now, but until …
The other day I got a hankering for Welsh books, so I trucked up to the fifth floor of the library and slipped in among the PB shelves. (I’ve …
Good news: yesterday afternoon I got an e-mail from the University of North Texas saying I’d gotten the MLS scholarship. ~breathe sigh of relief, wipe sweat from brow, slow heartrate …
14. Roll call
I just realized today that at the library, pretty much everyone is on a first-name basis. It stuck out at me because at the university in general, that isn’t …
15. One month later
My diploma arrived in the mail today, sitting on top of my apartment’s row of mailboxes (mailboxen?) in a white, official-looking envelope. Tomorrow it will have been exactly one …
I’m dead tired (from spending all morning scrubbing away for our cleaning check — luckily we passed with flying colors), so this’ll be short. Convocation yesterday was good. …
Got back from commencement about an hour ago. This year there was no processional, because of all the security precautions for Vice President Cheney, so I showed up at …
And now for something different.
Plato: So, Ben, I hear you just finished your last final.
Ben: It’s true. Very true.
Plato: How do you feel?
Ben: Like…like I’ve just come out of …
19. Three cheers
I just got an e-mail from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of North Texas:
Welcome to the University of North Texas School of Library and Information …
20. Alleluia!
Ten minutes ago I lifeflighted my applications for graduate school and scholarships. It feels so good to finally have it in the mail, gone, out of my hands. …
Again, I should be studying for those midterms, but I couldn’t help myself. On my walk back up here to campus after FHE a few minutes ago (and what …
I’m really supposed to be preparing for my two midterms (which are tomorrow) and my grad school application (which is due ASAP, probably Wednesday), but I need some release, and …
This morning I had my mom drive me up to Lindon to take the GRE. (I have no car.) Got there 40 minutes before the scheduled time, not …
24. Tender mercies
This’ll be a quickie. I originally planned to go to grad school a year from now, in fall 2008, but I caught wind not long ago of a juicy …
25. The shallow side
A few random thoughts.
1. I voted yesterday in the BYUSA elections (which ended about half an hour ago, I think), then went to take my grammar midterm. As I …
Crunch time is here. I feel like I’m clinging on with my fingertips as the sweat pours out and the handlebar threatens to fling me off at the next …
27. Four grey towers
Yet another multi-topic post.
1. Today’s Daily Universe has a series of articles about domestic abuse. I just finished reading them, and it made me so mad. How …
28. One short of ten
1. I just took a humanities test in the testing lab downstairs. Shortly after I arrived, some guy came in and sat down in the row in front of …
29. Outside in
I need to stop waiting until just before I leave for home to write these posts. Oh well.
In Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, he talks about an interesting idea: that …
Over the past two or three days I’ve learned something valuable, something I wish I’d known years ago. It is this: when a guy asks a girl out, there …
I’m terrible with money. Money doesn’t really have much meaning to me — I couldn’t care less — and while that’s a good defense against worshipping the god of …
Every week I send out the ward announcements, and lately I’ve been sending out chapters of a story I was writing. I decided today that it’s probably better to …
33. Food storage
Yesterday Connor blogged about food storage, particularly how many of us single adults are told we don’t need to do it. And this morning I read a rather …
I know it’s a little early for New Year’s resolutions, but I watched a movie called Homeless to Harvard with my family yesterday, and it changed my life. It’s …
I just finished my last paper of the semester. All that’s left is a final in my Middle English class tomorrow afternoon. And considering that the midterm took …
36. Getting closer…
Well, my main stress-inducer (a.k.a. term paper) is basically done. I finished writing the first draft a few minutes ago — after a miserable bout with writer’s block — …
Fatigue sits on my shoulders, weighs me down, tugs on my eyelids, hums lullabies in my head. I don’t think I’m particularly stressed, but my body begs to differ. …
For my Middle English class we had to give five-minute presentations on a person or event from that time period (A.D. 1100–1500). Today was my turn, and I couldn’t …
39. Signs
I ran across Orson Scott Card’s two-part essay on homework this morning. A quote:
Homework is usually so mind-numbingly dull, so endless, so hopeless, so relentless, so useless that lots …
Yesterday morning I was reading Liz’s post when I realized with a start that I’d completely forgotten to register. Luckily all the classes I wanted to take were …
41. Small and simple
As I said yesterday, I gave the closing prayer in the forum. Here’s the followup story: I arrived at the Marriott Center half an hour early, but nobody …
42. C’s get degrees
Yet another end-of-the-day post. Today has mostly consisted of working on a paper for my Varieties of English class. It’s getting close to complete (I just have to …
43. On taking notes
I used to take copious notes (of everything — general conference, classes, firesides, devotionals, etc.), but a few months ago I realized that I rarely (if ever) read through my …
The progressive book sale seduced me this morning. On my way to class I saw it and was sorely tempted to just skip class, but I’m happy to report …
45. Two if by sea
I can’t remember if I blogged on here about my semi-decision to stay in Provo and get my Masters in Library Science online. If I didn’t, well, there it …
46. Stampede
School’s a-started. I only had one class yesterday, with the rest of the lineup today (starting in half an hour). I’m pretty excited. I’m also pretty overwhelmed, …
47. Finito
I’m done! This morning I decided I’d go full speed ahead and try to take all of my finals today. And I did. And oh, yes, it …
48. Mr. Smilie Man
Nine smilies in Ketchup Redux (two posts ago). Whoa. That’s a lot of yellow happiness, it is. Right now, however, the smilies should be a little green. …
I was originally signed up to take Intro to Calligraphy this fall, but I’m thinking it may be better to just learn it on my own. (That logic actually …
50. Verdanteverdi
Remember that paper I was bemoaning on Saturday? It still isn’t written, but today I’m going to hole myself up in the library and make it happen. It’s …
