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Well, here I am again, back on the xanga front. Currently having an IM conversation with Sam discussing how much we both want to be doing a lot, how little time we have, and how much we screw ourselves over trying to do too much. And that's just with classes, never mind the extracurriculars I want to be doing (archery, fencing, horseback riding, gaming, theater, etc.). The debate (or commiseration, depending on how you want to put it) arose because of a program i was accepted into. I have the opportunity to go to Egypt and dig, which is something I have wanted to do since I was four. You know, it's not the standard wander-around-egypt-and-look-at-the-pretty-pyramids. It's go-to-Egypt-and-excavate. It takes up all of winter quarter, and costs me an extra 12k or something, but...damn. To have the opportunity!
The problem is...I'm an ME major. I do mechanical engineering. I have a schedule that is so tightly woven, it could hold water. I don't have TIME to go gallivanting off to Egypt for a term. I don't have time to take off. The ME classes have a specific sequence to them, and if you don't do it in that order, you're generally pretty screwed. No, I take it back. You're definitely screwed. I'm already here for five years with a tight schedule, so I can't load up a different term to be able to take winter term off. I could reroute all of my scheduling, do a classics major, ME minor...but going to grad school for ME afterwards...it might work. ...but to throw away an ME degree for a few months in Egypt? Is it worth it?
I've hated being at this school since freshman year; Stanford hasn't really ever fit my temperment and I generally dislike much of the populace of Stanfordites... I've had a nervous breakdown every year, and I feel as if maybe, just maybe, i should take some time off, go wander Egypt... If I knew freshman year what I know now, three years later, i would have done a lot of things differently. Especially with classes.
god, i feel old. How did i get to be so old?
...I guess I'll just drop the prof from Columbia an email explaining how I'm financially and time-managementally strapped and would he mind postponing the trip for another two years? riight. We'll see....there's also a dig in Turkey this summer that I'd like to go on...and Manning IS teaching Coptic and papyrology this year--I wouldn't want to miss that. Oh, right, wait, I"m an ME major.
so old....
The problem is...I'm an ME major. I do mechanical engineering. I have a schedule that is so tightly woven, it could hold water. I don't have TIME to go gallivanting off to Egypt for a term. I don't have time to take off. The ME classes have a specific sequence to them, and if you don't do it in that order, you're generally pretty screwed. No, I take it back. You're definitely screwed. I'm already here for five years with a tight schedule, so I can't load up a different term to be able to take winter term off. I could reroute all of my scheduling, do a classics major, ME minor...but going to grad school for ME afterwards...it might work. ...but to throw away an ME degree for a few months in Egypt? Is it worth it?
I've hated being at this school since freshman year; Stanford hasn't really ever fit my temperment and I generally dislike much of the populace of Stanfordites... I've had a nervous breakdown every year, and I feel as if maybe, just maybe, i should take some time off, go wander Egypt... If I knew freshman year what I know now, three years later, i would have done a lot of things differently. Especially with classes.
god, i feel old. How did i get to be so old?
...I guess I'll just drop the prof from Columbia an email explaining how I'm financially and time-managementally strapped and would he mind postponing the trip for another two years? riight. We'll see....there's also a dig in Turkey this summer that I'd like to go on...and Manning IS teaching Coptic and papyrology this year--I wouldn't want to miss that. Oh, right, wait, I"m an ME major.
so old....