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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

i like swings
March 16, 2003 - 5:01 pm

wvu told me that i couldn't apply as full-time, since i have an undergrad degree in business. the full-time mba program (don't ask me to explain the logic of this, i can't) is for non-business folks, that is people who do not have a bachelors degree in business.

undergrad business majors, like myself, can only go part-time.

so i sent an email to clarify with wvu if that inane policy is indeed correct. if so, i'll kindly turn down the letter. i'm toying with writing an essay using that weird policy as an example as to why folks make jokes about the backwardness of the great state of wv.

i also got a reminder dealie from cleveland state. they want me to come attend some info session. for shits and giggles, i went to their page and looked around. i saw the part where it say 'letters of recommendation' and almost closed out the screen. i'm done asking for poeple to write letters for me - i can't really explain why..it just irks me.

i happen to keep reading and there's a list of programs that do not have to send in any letter. the mba program is just such a program.

i'm intrigued. as with odu and ship, csu is a nationally accredited school - one of three hundered. to me, if they are nationally accredited then they must be a decent school. afterall they have met the same standards as stanford, penn, harvard, ect.

i realize i can actaully apply online today, have my transcripts sent, send my gmat scores.. and have everything there within two weeks. the only delay is mailing the gmat people and them sending out my scores.

so i apply. heck, it's only another.. fifty-nine dollars down the drain.

so i now have three schools.

i need to update my fafsa stuff. i'll do that today, before i forget.

i think i'm slowly changing my rut of thinking. not any major sort of pattern, i doubt i could do that. but the little things. i've known for a long time the types of jobs i've had arn't what i want. i'm actaully moving forward with getting something good.

i've been going to the backquack. he really is an odd guy. i like him though, probably because he's odd. i'm not so sure he's helping me. i went yesterday and then walked around alot yesterday.. and damn did my back/knee hurt. i get that my knee pain is due to my back being fucked up. but... i don't usually hurt so much. i'm going to address this with him tomorrow.

hrm, you know.. i've applied to six mba schools and heard from three. i got into two and denied at one. i'm batting .667 with three more swings to go. that's not too shabby. of course, if i can only go to wvu part-time, i'll have declined the two schools to accept me to date..

i don't regret declining rit. good school, but i don't want to move back there.

i really like the idea of going to norfolk and cleveland would be ok.

the big bonus to going to norfolk would be my brother/wife/niece are there. both my brother and wife are in the navy. he's about to go out on a boat (yes, he get annoyed when i say boat), for six months. i think i would be an added bonus that i'd be near enough to help her out with kids (a second one is due in april). i really think i'd like watching the kids and helping her out with stuff.

that's odd for me to think since she and i don't normally talk to much. of course, i don't really talk to anyone in my family much. that's a whole another entry - multiple entries probably. my interfamily relations are fucked up with no good reason.

anyway. i like the idea of going to school down there and helping with the kids. i love little little kids.

such a perfect age to mess with thier minds.

in short, i'm feeling oddly... near-happy. bouyant and all that. i suppose i'm just on a manic upswing of some sort, but yet.. i like swings.