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remindmeofthe) wrote2006-03-14 03:38 pm
remindmeofthe) wrote2006-03-14 03:38 pm
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Oh, yeah, and it kind of got lost in my complaining about a mediocre movie yesterday (I totally have my priorities, ha), but I took my placement test yesterday for Southern Maine Community College, so as soon as they get their shit together in re: the application fee that I totally paid dammit, I am in like Flynn. =D
No big surprises on that test; high placement in the reading and writing, because that's where my strengths are, and borderline retardation placement in the algebra, because I took dummy level math all through high school, just barely passed, and haven't used any of it since. There was a small surprise in my fairly decent placement on the basic math, since it was primarily fractions and I haven't done those since sixth grade, but I guess that age is still young enough that what you're taught sticks more.
So. College level English (which is good, that being my major of choice as soon as I transfer someplace where I can get more specific than Liberal Studies) and Introductory Algebra, aka, "Shit, girl, you need to relearn this stuff or you'll never ever graduate."
I just need to work out financial stuff (FAFSA HERE I COME WOO), and I am all set to go to college in the fall, and GOD what a relief that is. To be totally egotistical for a moment, I am way too fucking smart for my current job at a gas station (and to be fair, so are my coworkers, except maybe the one guy), and standing there listening to my brain cells slowly die has been incredibly depressing. I'm not sure how it is I managed to avoid getting it together and applying for so long (I graduated in 2003, for heaven's sake), but maybe I just needed to be really desperate to do it. I know I've been jealous these past couple years, listening to my friends talk about going back and the classes they have and the stupid papers they have to write and the weird thing a professor said today. I miss school. I miss being bored in class and procrastinating on that paper and being pleased with myself when something clicks and I finally understand the thing that's been giving me hives and discussing books and just generally having to use my brain. It's no wonder I've been clinging so hard to baseball - it's intellectually stimulating, and I miss that.
I didn't appreciate the school thing before, but I hadn't had the benefit of trying to live on a salary somewhere around poverty level, either. I want to learn and develop mad skillz in library science and be a librarian and get decent pay and benefits for something I like doing. You can't do that on just a high school diploma these days. You gotta go to college or it's Cumberland Farms for the rest of your life unless you get lucky.
Speaking of which, I have to go. I may officially be an accepted student but I gotta pay the bills, so off I go to my shitty entry level job that I am SO FUCKING QUITTING when I start school, if I don't find something else sooner.
No big surprises on that test; high placement in the reading and writing, because that's where my strengths are, and borderline retardation placement in the algebra, because I took dummy level math all through high school, just barely passed, and haven't used any of it since. There was a small surprise in my fairly decent placement on the basic math, since it was primarily fractions and I haven't done those since sixth grade, but I guess that age is still young enough that what you're taught sticks more.
So. College level English (which is good, that being my major of choice as soon as I transfer someplace where I can get more specific than Liberal Studies) and Introductory Algebra, aka, "Shit, girl, you need to relearn this stuff or you'll never ever graduate."
I just need to work out financial stuff (FAFSA HERE I COME WOO), and I am all set to go to college in the fall, and GOD what a relief that is. To be totally egotistical for a moment, I am way too fucking smart for my current job at a gas station (and to be fair, so are my coworkers, except maybe the one guy), and standing there listening to my brain cells slowly die has been incredibly depressing. I'm not sure how it is I managed to avoid getting it together and applying for so long (I graduated in 2003, for heaven's sake), but maybe I just needed to be really desperate to do it. I know I've been jealous these past couple years, listening to my friends talk about going back and the classes they have and the stupid papers they have to write and the weird thing a professor said today. I miss school. I miss being bored in class and procrastinating on that paper and being pleased with myself when something clicks and I finally understand the thing that's been giving me hives and discussing books and just generally having to use my brain. It's no wonder I've been clinging so hard to baseball - it's intellectually stimulating, and I miss that.
I didn't appreciate the school thing before, but I hadn't had the benefit of trying to live on a salary somewhere around poverty level, either. I want to learn and develop mad skillz in library science and be a librarian and get decent pay and benefits for something I like doing. You can't do that on just a high school diploma these days. You gotta go to college or it's Cumberland Farms for the rest of your life unless you get lucky.
Speaking of which, I have to go. I may officially be an accepted student but I gotta pay the bills, so off I go to my shitty entry level job that I am SO FUCKING QUITTING when I start school, if I don't find something else sooner.
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Now I just need to get in to USM, and we can rock together like college students.
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I think I wanted to be a librarian for a while. I still think it'd be a fun job. Surrounded by books. Mmmmm....