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04-11-2008, 08:20 AM
Two days ago I applied for university, to go into Elementary Education, specializing in Language and Literacy (English, basically). Until that point I had been flipping back and forht with what I was going to do next year. Some days I was going to work for the year, some days I was going to Ireland for the year, some days I was going to college. For the last while, I'd actually been looking for a good publisher to intern with. The problem being most of them are summer internships offered only to students. The other problem? When I tell people what I'm looking for it basically boils down to "That's just a regular job, not an internship".
During my spare block the other day I went down to the office for the cyber school where I take a few classes. The lady who runs it is incredibly nice, and I saw that she was helping some other kids with college applications and deciding what to do. I asked, without expecting things to progress any further, what she knew of the school I had been thinking about, and what my chances of getting in would be.
She pulled out scholarship books, and information books, and had the website open. Before I knew it, she had sent an email to the admissions office wondering about Out of Province seats in the Education college.
I was kind of swept up in all of it, and before I knew it, I was really excited. It just made more sense than everything else. When I applied at the college in my city, I didn't care, because it wasn't what I wanted to do. When I looked at tickets to Ireland, I didn't care, because I wasn't sure I'd end up going anyways. This college thing is what I want to end up doing.
Anywho, now we're two days in, and they've emailed me asking me for more detailed course information on the things I've been taking, so they can "process the application as quickly as possible". My nerves are killing me. It's such a mindgame. I don't know whethere they'll accept or deny me. Before, I had no reason to suspect either way. This email has me flipping back and forth in my head with what it means. At the moment I'm convinced they needed it because I'm somewhere near the bottom of the list and they weren't sure whether to bump me up or boot me off.
So it goes.
Just thought I'd tell you all about it. Kill some time until they reply back to me.
During my spare block the other day I went down to the office for the cyber school where I take a few classes. The lady who runs it is incredibly nice, and I saw that she was helping some other kids with college applications and deciding what to do. I asked, without expecting things to progress any further, what she knew of the school I had been thinking about, and what my chances of getting in would be.
She pulled out scholarship books, and information books, and had the website open. Before I knew it, she had sent an email to the admissions office wondering about Out of Province seats in the Education college.
I was kind of swept up in all of it, and before I knew it, I was really excited. It just made more sense than everything else. When I applied at the college in my city, I didn't care, because it wasn't what I wanted to do. When I looked at tickets to Ireland, I didn't care, because I wasn't sure I'd end up going anyways. This college thing is what I want to end up doing.
Anywho, now we're two days in, and they've emailed me asking me for more detailed course information on the things I've been taking, so they can "process the application as quickly as possible". My nerves are killing me. It's such a mindgame. I don't know whethere they'll accept or deny me. Before, I had no reason to suspect either way. This email has me flipping back and forth in my head with what it means. At the moment I'm convinced they needed it because I'm somewhere near the bottom of the list and they weren't sure whether to bump me up or boot me off.
So it goes.
Just thought I'd tell you all about it. Kill some time until they reply back to me.