It is I, the frequently absent one, here to give a quick rant of nonsense before dissapearing into the ether yet again.
My job, which has always been only temporary, ends this Friday. It's both liberating and terrifying at the same time. Liberating, in that it will let me not have phone calls from multi-millionaire bosses screaming at me because I have been unable to collect $22.50 from some old woman who can't afford to put food on her table. Terrifying, in that I have been working 16 hour weeks and getting paid for 40 since the start of the semester and am not sure how the hell I'm going to find a job that works around my school schedule and pays the rent.
The terror is slightly tempered, however, by the fact that I can always increase my student loan debt and take out supplemental loans to live on. This would be a no-brainer, if I were majoring in a field that would lead to a high paying job upon graduation. However, as a political-science/international studies/american studies major(yeah, I'm debating between the last two so they get equal billing), I'm likely to be making about the same as a kid with a decent paper route. Thus the potential of living paycheck to paycheck on the flipside of college is definitely already there, without the extra, but I'm choosing to live in the now.
Of course, it would all be made moot if my multi-million dollar bosses said to themselves "Well, Tanner's team(yep, I'm in charge) has brought in over 4 million dollars in 6 months, maybe we should give them a bonus." I'm not asking for much, maybe 5 or 10 grand. Yeah, I'm a greedy bastard, but it would make life as a college student much simpler.
On that note, the College Redux is going well. I am currently sitting on all As, which could change with an English paper I turned in on Friday(the topic: That '70s Show as an example of the All American Family on TV), which in most of my past classes is an A paper, but my teacher is a notoriously hard grader. I'm guessing B.
Oh well, I'm off to read some Intro to Theatre and Psychology since tests in both are coming up in the next week. Then, for my own personal amusement, I have the text of a speech given by former Vice President Al Gore to the We Media Conference in New York, NY on 10/5 entitled "American Democracy in Trouble" as well as a reread of the Barack Obama speech at the DNC last year. Yeah, I'm a geek, but nobody can ever say I'm not informed
My job, which has always been only temporary, ends this Friday. It's both liberating and terrifying at the same time. Liberating, in that it will let me not have phone calls from multi-millionaire bosses screaming at me because I have been unable to collect $22.50 from some old woman who can't afford to put food on her table. Terrifying, in that I have been working 16 hour weeks and getting paid for 40 since the start of the semester and am not sure how the hell I'm going to find a job that works around my school schedule and pays the rent.
The terror is slightly tempered, however, by the fact that I can always increase my student loan debt and take out supplemental loans to live on. This would be a no-brainer, if I were majoring in a field that would lead to a high paying job upon graduation. However, as a political-science/international studies/american studies major(yeah, I'm debating between the last two so they get equal billing), I'm likely to be making about the same as a kid with a decent paper route. Thus the potential of living paycheck to paycheck on the flipside of college is definitely already there, without the extra, but I'm choosing to live in the now.
Of course, it would all be made moot if my multi-million dollar bosses said to themselves "Well, Tanner's team(yep, I'm in charge) has brought in over 4 million dollars in 6 months, maybe we should give them a bonus." I'm not asking for much, maybe 5 or 10 grand. Yeah, I'm a greedy bastard, but it would make life as a college student much simpler.
On that note, the College Redux is going well. I am currently sitting on all As, which could change with an English paper I turned in on Friday(the topic: That '70s Show as an example of the All American Family on TV), which in most of my past classes is an A paper, but my teacher is a notoriously hard grader. I'm guessing B.
Oh well, I'm off to read some Intro to Theatre and Psychology since tests in both are coming up in the next week. Then, for my own personal amusement, I have the text of a speech given by former Vice President Al Gore to the We Media Conference in New York, NY on 10/5 entitled "American Democracy in Trouble" as well as a reread of the Barack Obama speech at the DNC last year. Yeah, I'm a geek, but nobody can ever say I'm not informed