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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
9:00 PM
Be very glad my friends that I am in Florida and you are, well, wherever you are, and therefore don't have to deal with my spastic-ness in person. As a matter of fact if you wish to spare yourself the pain of venturing into the mind of a very stressed, very anxious Megan, then I suggest you stop reading. Still with me? Well, you were warned.
So I'm graduating this August. Originally my plan was to return to Columbus and take classes this summer and autumn, with the intent to graduate in December. However, housing complications have arisen, and now (simply put) I have nowhere to live come September. Not a big deal, right? I have been looking forward to getting my own place for awhile, and this simply pushes up the date by about three months.
...Except it's not so simple. I never intended to take classes full time AND pay rent on my own, but that's exactly what I would have to do if I stuck with my original plan.
And so what options am I left with? This is where things get messy, because I'm going to have a full year to do whatever prior to (hopefully) vet school in September 2009. And that's assuming I get in.
So here are my options, come September:
1) Move back home with mom and dad, and acquire a full time job in a veterinary hospital to rack up some experience for vet school.
Advantages:
-Save money on rent!
-Mom and dad want me home
-Close to family
Disadvantages:
-Can't bring Mutu (third cat)
-I'll be living with my mom and dad...
-Fewer vet opportunities in Cuyahoga Falls
-Necessity of finding a new fellowship. Goodbye Columbus friends/church!
2) Stay in Columbus and find a full time job
Advantages:
-Keep Mutu!!!
-Stay in fellowship
-More vet opportunities
Disadvantages:
-Far from family :( :(
-Expensive!
-Will need to find a new place to stay
3) Apply to OSU's College of Public Health, for matriculation into the Master's in Public Health program this fall (with a veterinary public health specialization).
Advantages:
-Financial aid
-I would stay in Columbus...see option 2 above.
-I would be in school for a full year prior to vet school! :) I'm a little worried about taking a full year off...
-I would really like my MPH (very advantageous for vet school/career)
Disadvantages:
-Applications are due by the end of May, which would require me to retake the GRE and find letters of recommendation by then.
-More debt.
-...Far from family, etc.
4) Look for another internship with a starting date in September, preferably in the zoo field.
Advantages:
-Continued investigation in careers outside of veterinary medicine
-I love conservation biology! :) :) Bring on the zooooooooos!
Disadvantages:
-A lot. (money, leaving Columbus/family, what to do with pets, etc. etc.)
5) Join the secretive ninja asassination squad that has been trying to recruit me for the past several years.
Advantages:
-I would make a kick-ass asassin
Disadvantages:
-I have a problem with killing people.
-Unless they're poachers. Must remember to ask about possible openings in Africa...
I guess the trick will be survive until the conclusion of this internship, and then figure out what I want to do. Unless, of course, I decide on option 3 (MPH), in which case I have a heck of a lot to do and not a lot of time in which to do it.
Sigh. Would someone please just tell me what to do?Labels: career, future, spazz, vet med
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
8:19 PM
Ah yes. It's the Thursday before finals, so I think some procrastination is in order here. I am, of course, in true Megan style, spazzing out over all of my classes and the appraching summer "break". Aside from some random natural catastrophe, I will most likely pass all of my classes in spite of the sleepless nights I know I'll spend stressing and crying over finals. But worrying, spazzing, freaking out, stressing...procrastinating...it's all a part of my nature.
And did I mention I'm also decision-impaired? Yeah, decision-impaired.
This quarter has been...enlightening, to say the least. Most people enter college not knowing what they want to do with their lives, and graduate with at least some vision of where they want to go or who they want to be. I, of course, must do everything backwards. Who says taking the road-less-traveled is the brave or noble thing to do? I'm off the fucking path and through the frickin' looking glass to the Wonderful Land of Oz, no yellow-brick-road in sight. Whoop-di-doo, yay for nonconformity.
So what am I left with? A Barron's GRE study book, a list of veterinarians to call for shadowing hours, a pile of paperwork for my research project, a stack of unpaid bills, and a bottle of Excedrin Migraine.
I deliberately stayed home from church tonight to get work done. Now I wonder why I didn't go, seeing as said work is NOT getting done after all.
I fully realize this post probably makes little sense. My apologizes, but I'm running on two hours of sleep and would really, really like an Amaretto Sour. Actually, an Amaretto Sour and David Bowie in "Labyrinth" sound very good to me right now, although I really don't know what the two have in common, except that both sound really tasty. Rowr.
I am ending this post now before I hurt myself.Labels: future, spazz, vet med
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