Ah, this is the life. I've upped my hours at the office to cover the phones while the receptionist recovers from surgery. I'm still doing my marketing work. I've picked up an SAT tutoring gig ($45 an hour). I have a big old check in my purse from my freelance work at the Baltimore Opera company. This weekend, I will get paid for handing out flyers and bartending.
If I could only stop ordering Indian food, I might be able to break even...some day...
Probably not.
But the point is, I love doing this: having my hand in many different pies, or whatever the expression is. I think this is why I'm so suited for life as a permanent student: as long as I'm taking a couple different courses, I feel fulfilled. When I'm just doing one thing- one type of job, for instance- I get terribly bored. I need my life made up of as many little different pieces as possible.
Lately, I've been working on selecting some of next year's little pieces; I've been picking out my schedule for my first semester at NYU. In college, schedule time was awesome. The day our course booklets came in the mail was kind of like Christmas. This might be partially due to the fact that I was (and still am, let's face it) an Honors Kid.
My friends and I would take our course books and gather in someone's common room. Probably a rerun of The West Wing was on. And we'd sit there for hours, exclaiming over our choices and planning and planning.
Registration for NYU has been a little more frantic. The already enrolled students got to start registering on April 17th. So yesterday, when I got my registration info, I took about half an hour to read over my choices and then I just started clicking on courses. Currently I'm registered for two: my mandatory MA seminar and a class on the American Renassiance, which I'm pretty sure I don't want to take. I'm waitlisted for The Novel and the Culture of War (started as number eight on the list, and I'm already down to number six!) and I'm in an email discussion with a professor about whether I should take a class on Seduction in the Age of Revolution that generally only Phd students are allowed to take.
Absolutely no one is interested in all those courses except me (and the people ahead of me on the wait list), so if you are still reading, I'm impressed.
I shall reward you with a little song.
What do you do with a B.A. in English?
What is my life going to be?
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge
Have earned me this useless degree.
I can't pay the bills yet,
Cuz I've got no skills yet.
The world is a big scary place...
But somehow I can't shake
The feeling I might make
A difference to the human race!
~ Avenue Q
And I'll be even more useless with an MA in English!
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