I just wanted to take a minute and post some cool websites I've found while wasting time in various internet cafes waiting to see if I have to work or not. Alas the wonders of having a job thats completely on call.
http://pandora.com- free costomizable internet radio. You give the music genome project an artist or a song title and it creates a radio station all around your favorite tunes.
http://meetup.com- a site full of social meetups and groups. The site posts up the time and place of a group meeting that fits your particular intrest. theres a meetup in almost every city around the globe. Im a big fan of the boardgames meetup.
http://meebo.com- on a public computer that doesnt have your particular messenging program loaded? Meebo enough said
http://dailystrength.com- this might be a .org cant seem to remember this is a clearing house of support if you have it you can find a group and fourum for it
http://pandorasaquarium.org this one might be .com i cant really remember either but if you have experinced any kind of sexual damage this is the place for you these ppl know a great deal about how to get through it weather it just happened or happened years ago.
well thats it for now ill post again as i get more
Friday, June 13, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
See Blue
Graduate School a teany tiny Huge deal. I originally thought the biggest thing about graduate school was making sure you could get in. that as long as I got in everything would be fine. There was actually a lot of doubt about weather I would get in or not. My health was such that I was in the hospital for up to three months every year of my undergraduate existance. my grades were good I graduated with a 3.35 but its not a 4.0. At the same time I didnt have a whole lot of feild specific experinces i did volunteer work and that kind of thing but I didnt have any internships or anything like that. So I applied to the Univeristy of Kentucky almost positive that I wasnt going to make the cut. I also applied to IUPUI as a fall back school.
The first response I got was a rejection from IUPUI this was confidence shaking because my mother is a director of graduate programs for another school in that univeristy system. So I have spent most of my waking hours since i got the rejection trying to figure out a plan B in case UK didnt want me. This was really a rough experince because to reapply to other graduate schools would mean doing something anything with my life for a year until applicaton time rolled around again. All the while trying to make sure that whatever i did increased my chances of getting in to wherever i decided to apply to as my second string
To make matters worse the UK college of social work was drastically behind on thier acceptance process this year, app deadlines were in April and I didnt receive my notification until 6/4. the space in between was agony. When i first opened the letters (one from the school of social work and one from the graduate school) and saw the we are pleased to inform you..... there was screaming and jumping up and down and that night included several bottles of champane and dancing
but later the next morning I freaked out well as much as a person with a slamming hangover can panic. I havent been a student for a year now and how diffrent are the classes going to be would i be able to suceed .....ad nauesum
so far I have coped with my anxiety by trying to do some research.. I went to the public library to see if there were any strategy books for graduate school students and so on. but there wasnt any. so now im scouring the internet and will put the links to what i find here
the moral of this post...... Joy and Terror are only a breath apart.
helpful links:
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/studytips1/a/newworld.htm - some basic information on how to modify your study habits in order to be successful on the graduate level talks about the diffrent kind of learning you will be asked to do as well as how much professors really expect of you.
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/transitions/a/howgraddiff.htm - a break down of the diffrences between undergraduate culture and the graduate school way of life.
The first response I got was a rejection from IUPUI this was confidence shaking because my mother is a director of graduate programs for another school in that univeristy system. So I have spent most of my waking hours since i got the rejection trying to figure out a plan B in case UK didnt want me. This was really a rough experince because to reapply to other graduate schools would mean doing something anything with my life for a year until applicaton time rolled around again. All the while trying to make sure that whatever i did increased my chances of getting in to wherever i decided to apply to as my second string
To make matters worse the UK college of social work was drastically behind on thier acceptance process this year, app deadlines were in April and I didnt receive my notification until 6/4. the space in between was agony. When i first opened the letters (one from the school of social work and one from the graduate school) and saw the we are pleased to inform you..... there was screaming and jumping up and down and that night included several bottles of champane and dancing
but later the next morning I freaked out well as much as a person with a slamming hangover can panic. I havent been a student for a year now and how diffrent are the classes going to be would i be able to suceed .....ad nauesum
so far I have coped with my anxiety by trying to do some research.. I went to the public library to see if there were any strategy books for graduate school students and so on. but there wasnt any. so now im scouring the internet and will put the links to what i find here
the moral of this post...... Joy and Terror are only a breath apart.
helpful links:
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/studytips1/a/newworld.htm - some basic information on how to modify your study habits in order to be successful on the graduate level talks about the diffrent kind of learning you will be asked to do as well as how much professors really expect of you.
http://gradschool.about.com/cs/transitions/a/howgraddiff.htm - a break down of the diffrences between undergraduate culture and the graduate school way of life.
introduction to the many shades
My name is Femi and I'm a damaged girl, notice I said damaged not destroyed. Also it is worth mentioning that there is more to me than the broken pieces. I am in the process of creating a beautiful self a mosaic of all my experinces.
The damage has many shades and forms. I have disturbingly typical family issues, chronic illness, addiction, sexual trauma. But I am a richer and more vibrant person because of all the shading and shifting. This blog is my attempt to cronicle the process of finding one's self, when your early stages are fractured. Possibly to give others a starting point and a refrence or maybe just a space to feel safe.
In this blog you will find posts about everything from thearpy, to graduate school, to social issues and hobbies and possibly even some creative efforts. take from it what you can and leave the rest. Happy exploring....
The damage has many shades and forms. I have disturbingly typical family issues, chronic illness, addiction, sexual trauma. But I am a richer and more vibrant person because of all the shading and shifting. This blog is my attempt to cronicle the process of finding one's self, when your early stages are fractured. Possibly to give others a starting point and a refrence or maybe just a space to feel safe.
In this blog you will find posts about everything from thearpy, to graduate school, to social issues and hobbies and possibly even some creative efforts. take from it what you can and leave the rest. Happy exploring....
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