-- What do you wear to bed? --
Well, be prepared for the least exciting answer of all time...a t-shirt and pajama pants.
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But yeah, since that was rather brief, I figure I would update some other things. Tomorrow is the Senior Design Showcase thing. My poster from field projects last summer will be on display and I'll have the opportunity to win a best-in-show prize. The judges come around during the two hour time period that I am stationed by my poster and ask me questions...so it'll be fun...
-- How have you changed in the past 2 years? --
Oh boy, a lot is an understatement. I was ending my sophomore year, which had its good times, but was my worst year academically. Which was because I finally was taking advantage of the freedom of being on my own and was influenced negatively by certain people I considered friends at the time.
I did however become really good friends around this time, with someone whom I love very much. <3
I basically learned some really hard lessons in 2009; the primary one being to not care at ALL about what anyone thinks about you, except those who you care about, like friends and family.
So I had this awesome idea earlier in the afternoon for a blog entry since I haven't done one in over a month...and then I conveniently forgot it... Maybe it's a sign that I should be working on homework and studying for my massive exam that's in two days. Well, I will take my own advice and get on that.
Have a great day.
Tomorrow is the first day of my final semester of college (although I actually don't have class on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). It's been a long four years. With lots of good times, and plenty of bad. I've learned who my true friends are and strengthened my relationships with the ones that mean the most.
I very much look forward to being done with school, but at the same time dread being thrown blindly into the real world. But it's inevitable regardless.
So we will see what this week and semester have to bring! Have a great day!
So I'm blogging about happy things because I pretty much had a horrible day.
Ok, so these are good Christmas (yes, I know it's a little late for this) or birthday ideas. I was stupid and bought the wrong size shirt when I saw Muse back in March...so here's the other shirt I want to replace it lol.
I also really like this necklace. I just wish I knew about how large the pendant was and how long the chain is...but I like it just the same.
They both can be purchased at Muse's US Shop (under 2010 Merch) found at this link: http://muse.shop.bravadousa.com/Dept.aspx?cp=9321_34264
Ugh. So it's exam week, and I only have one more exam left, on Friday, so I have tomorrow off. And then I get to have an epically amazing time next week in St. Augustine and everywhere in between with an equally epically amazing person.
I can't wait! Have a great day.
So as I fill out the midterm course evaluation for a certain meteorology class I have at 8am, it was very difficult to not write "stop grading like a Nazi" when prompted: 'What improvements would you make to this class?'
I swear to God this man has no self-control when it comes to that damn red pen of his. Not only does he "grade" he writes comments -- on your performance, and how disappointed he is in you.
I have been working my ass off for 3 years, to get ridiculed by my professor, boss and supposed favorite teacher? WTF. Take a chill pill, and think about what you're doing to kids who are about to graduate...if you even let them graduate at all!!!
Have a great day. (Hopefully better than mine.)
So guess who can't sleep when she has to get up in less than 7 hours for DIEnamics? ME! So guess who's blogging...lol.
Ok, so I think I'm having an identity crisis. First off, I really like who I am as a person right now. I accept my flaws, but I also feel like I'm doing something right with my life, and persevering through tough times. Overall, I like who I am, which is a big step for me. It also helps that I've got a couple of great people (especially one in particular) who support me and will be there with me through the thick and thin. Love you guys. <3
I have become stronger in my beliefs (in general) and that has better allowed me to get to know myself. And to learn that I don't need to change for people, they can like me for who I am, or not like me at all, end of story.
I guess because of who I am now, I'm worried about the coming months of job interviews, networking, and interacting with folks who are more than just my peers. I actually have to care what these people think about me. And I'm worried about how I come across.
Deep down inside, my dream has always been to move to North Florida or Georgia, somewhere rural, where I would then commute to work, and live out my idealistic lifestyle. But as the real world is encroaching on my doorstep, I'm worried about whether that dream is even feasible.
There aren't many available options in the meteorological field job-wise right now, so I would basically have to be willing to go where the job is. And I used to imagine that and be ok with it, knowing that I still had plenty of time to think about it. Well, I'm graduating in a little less than 8 months and honestly, I'm freaking out.
My dream was to live a simple lifestyle (yeah, it probably doesn't help that I've been listening hardcore to country music for over a year and had that idea firmly planted in my head). And I feel like things will be really weird if I end up anywhere out of the southeast. Honestly, I wish I had either a stronger Southern accent or none at all. I don't know how I sound to other people, but I don't want it to sound forced (when its not) or like I'm putting on. Besides Floridians "aren't supposed to have accents," which isn't true.
I want to grow up, marry a good Southern boy (preferably; he'll get me more than a Yankee or any one else), and have if not my dream job, one I at least enjoy, and raise a family.
Anyway...the reason all of this is on my mind is because I'm taking my resume to be reviewed and critiqued tomorrow in preparation for the Career Fair next Tuesday and the interest meeting I'm attending for a company called Universal Weather and Aviation on Monday night. AND potentially the AMS conference in January. So I get to stress about real life in addition to the hell Laz will probably put us through tomorrow since we all failed his test. And with that, I will stop for the time being, and sleep so I can actually stay awake in that class. Have a great day.
My academic future is currently up in the air. I had a meeting with one of my professors today regarding graduate school and my future. He basically recommended that since my grades are not great, not to apply to grad school for meteorology because, basically, no one will accept me. This was a tremendous blow, even though I knew deep down it was coming. My goal had always been to get my master's degree in meteorology, at minimum, and preferably at Oklahoma, so I could chase storms. Now I'm not sure how much meteorology will be in my future after May 7, 2011.
For the past eight or so years of my life, all I've been able to think about is meteorology. It's the only career I've ever truly been interested in. And I love meteorology and the weather. I truly want to be a forecaster. It's my dream job. But I'm really afraid that it's just slipped away.
My professor said I still should apply for meteorology here at Florida Tech, because I may get accepted since I'm one of their own. But no guarantees...I basically have to do AMAZING on the GREs to even be considered. So now I'm looking slightly more seriously at going to UF and getting my master's in environmental science. They have a lot of diversity in degree programs there, and while there isn't a specialized degree for meteorology, I can hopefully still get to do something I'm interested in. My goal would then be to try and get a second master's elsewhere in meteorology. It's the only thing I can think of to do. I want to be a meteorologist so bad, and even if it takes two or more years before I can get back to it, I want to, desperately.
There are a lot of jobs in the environmental science field and my professor recommended me going the public policy route. So I could basically work for the St. John's River Water Management District, for example (which I wouldn't mind doing and sort of got a job offer there a few years ago). Working at a job like that, hopefully I can incorporate my meteorological background and have it help me move up through the ranks or into an actual meteorological position.
The only thing that still bothers me about this whole mess, is well, that I may never get to chase tornadoes for scientific purposes. I mean, yes, one day I will make it to the Midwest and chase a tornado, I'm promising you this right now; but I wanted that to be my job...or at least work on a related research project.
I don't know what my future holds right now or what I'm going to do in the coming months, let alone what I'll be doing a year from now. I've had a lot of "bad" things happen to me in the last three months, I just have to keep telling myself that everything happens for a reason. I just want to know what to do, because I am in fact, lost. Have a great day.
It still hasn't quite hit me yet that tomorrow is the first day of my senior year of college. Really? It's been three years already? It's nuts how much time has passed and yet it feels like just yesterday (or maybe last year) that I was in high school.
I'm hoping this semester won't kill me. But then I'm also taking my first semester of Atmospheric DIEnamics (or Dynamics if you're boring). And Dr. Lazarus is the professor for that class...and he expects a lot out of his students...especially ones he likes...like me...
I'm also taking Probability and Statistics, Environmental Hydrology, Remote Sensing for Meteorology, Physical Oceanography, and the corresponding Phys. Oce. Lab. Tomorrow I just have Prob. and Stats. and the lab, so hopefully not a horrible day. And they're both in Skurla, so I don't have to go anywhere.
So far, so good though. I like my roommate a lot, and I'm pretty sure we'll get along really well. I definitely feel like something's missing though and I know exactly what that thing is. I'm just trying to press on regardless from that respect, but it's hard when at every turn there is something to remind me of better days.
Oh well, I'll try and update you tomorrow on how the first day went! Have a great day.
Well first off, I'll be interested to see what time/date this entry actually posts as since its a little after 11pm and I'm not sure I will finish by midnight...lol
Ok, anyway. So I know, I've been neglecting this blog...but I mean I've been busy. So busy in fact, I should be writing my methods and introduction for one of the four papers I have due in the next week, not writing this blog entry...but obviously you can see where my priorities are.
An brief update of what I've done since I last wrote here:
-I launched a radiosonde (weather balloon)
-I storm chased, multiple times...for SCHOOL! :D
-I went to a friend's wedding shower and reception
-I visited another friend who recently had surgery and is recovering (I wish
him well! <3)
Basically, the reason I am writing this blog is to ask everyone out there that reads this (haha, good joke Sarah, good joke) what they think of this idea:
Do you think receiving a book of letters is romantic? My fear is that because of what I would probably write to him would only be maybe 50% romantic, the rest would be random stuff that happens to me, similar to what I write here. Any advice/suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated!
Any other ideas for keeping romance alive when you cannot talk on the phone, text, regularly keep in touch via the computer (basically my options are snail mail or driving 150 miles), I would love to hear!
I'll leave you with this: me helping inflate the radiosonde balloon. Have a great day.
Yes, it was really awkward to hold and I was afraid my arms were going to give out.