Master of Science in ME - Progress

Currently listening to: Mims - This is why I'm hot

After reading MikeD's last post about his progress in grad school, I threw my progress into a pie chart to get a visual.

This makes me happy. It's a shame though that I'll be starting fresh again at Class #1 come summer time...

Holy Busy Day

Currently listening to: Nada (I forgot my headphones, whoops!)

So today is a crazy day to return to from the 3-day weekend. I'm starting my first class for my new material science course, I'm being inducted into Trinity Lodge later tonight, and I have a phone interview for some magazine for FIRST.

Oh, yeah, and I'm probably supposed to be working in there at some point, too. ;-)

The beginning of the end

Currently listening to: Dropkick Murphys - Tessie

I filled out and faxed in my application for graduate student graduation for May 2008.

While that is quite a ways off, I only have one class left to take and I'm starting in a week and half. So, I should be done by Xmas and can sit pretty until May to collect degree #2.

I'm pretty pumped. It has been a long hard road for the MS. Between being told I was going to TA for Norton, then losing it, switching back to BS/MS, then running out of money and switching to part-time so that I could work, finding a job, and now doing classes at night for 3+ years, it has been quite a journey.

I figure that I'll spend spring semester focusing more on FIRST and applying for MBA programs and then start in the summer or fall of 2008. But that I'll figure out when I get there.

A Milestone, I think.

Currently listening to: My Chemical Romance - Helena

So I just got done filling out a form to apply for a student loan. The student loan for my last course for my MS in Mechanical Engineering.

While I know that I'll be taking atleast, I don't know, 15 courses for my MBA someday, I'll hopefully be going to a cheaper school than WPI and could possibly afford all of the tuition just by saving alone, unlike the past three years where I've had to take out more and more loans just to handle it. So, this will hopefully be the last time that I have to do this in the next 20 years or so before I have little punks of my own that I'll need to pay for his/her/their tuition(s).

The funny part is, though, that when the credit check ran through, my initial reaction wasn't on the lines of "yah, I'm all set!", but more on the lines of "Idiots! You approved my credit for another loan!". I've acquired more debt in the past 7 months than I ever knew could be possible. I can't wait to dig my way out of this hole...