If you have been following this girl’s grad school journey, you’d know that she’s been having second thoughts about it. Last week, she sent an email out to the people that she loves telling them of her decisions. She’s reproducing it here: Dear People that This girl loves, Hello everyone. Its taken This girl a [...]
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the thing with grad school
Posted in chapters, grad school, life learnings, writings on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the big grad school question
Posted in grad school on April 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some of you would already know this, so it won’t come as such a shock to you guys. But for the uninformed, this might come as a tad of a shocker to you, but here goes: This girl is reconsidering her decision to go to grad school. (Read: This girl might not go after all.) [...]
lost and found
Posted in decluttering life, family, grad school on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The day this girl left for Uganda, The family retriever decided to skip town too. The house is under mild renovations and so when her leash got untied, the family retriever decided it might be a good idea to go a-visiting places. She stayed missing the entire time this girl was a away; in the [...]
being a grown up
Posted in chapters, emo-ments, grad school, just me, travel on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This girl is back from East Africa! She’s posted all the blog posts she wrote while she’s there so you all can go take a read. They are a tad wordy, but the week she spent there was truly rich in such flavour, she felt- and feels- that she’s wiser and better for it. This [...]
batting average
Posted in grad school on March 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ok, so here’s the thing. This girl received this from Georgetown: Greetings from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) Office of Admissions. I am pleased to inform you that the GPPI Admissions Committee has reviewed your application and will recommend to the Dean of the Georgetown Graduate School of Arts and Sciences your admission for [...]
why this girl still can’t breathe easy
Posted in emo-ments, grad school on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This girl and Stacey Kent had a conversation today about her grad school affairs. Mainly it revolved around the probability of this girl getting a scholarship from the schools that have accepted her. In particular, Fletcher, since she really, really wants to go there. This girl was getting a bout of cold feet about the [...]
this girl is so thankful she’s that lucky
Posted in grad school, just me on February 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This girl received an email in her inbox today that went like this: Greetings from The Fletcher School! We are writing today to offer our congratulations – you have been admitted to attend The Fletcher School beginning in September 2008! While the majority of our applicants will not be notified until late March, the Committee [...]
groveling in your humilty
Posted in funnies, grad school, life learnings on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It seems, this girl has been having what seems to be the same conversation with different people alot these days. It usually goes like this: Friend: I’m so thrilled for you! You’re so going to grad school! This girl: It ain’t over till the fat lady sings. IF I get in, it’d be great. Friend: [...]
in the silence
Posted in GOoD things, grad school on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This part of the grad school process is the hardest: the waiting. The silence. The almost deathly silence after the flurry of application panic. Its weird, really, to know a team of people are right at this moment picking apart this girl’s application piece by piece. That halfway across the world, they are reading and [...]
better on my knees
Posted in adventure, GOoD things, grad school on January 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A week back, this girl got an email from one of the grad schools she applied to requesting for an interview. One of their foremost professor would be in town to interview some of them, for a short chat, they said. So, this girl mailed back her preferred time slot and started an escalating panic [...]
standing before the bend, and its ok
Posted in adventure, decluttering life, grad school, just me, new things, sock stuff, the sock shop, travel on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These are the reasons this girl is so excited about this new year: Her grad school stuff are lock and loaded. She has enough tucked away to buffer this girl financially for a bit. She has enough new (and relatively fun) projects to pay for bills. Many “parasitic” people are out of her life. Mostly [...]
lil steps, big world (part IV)
Posted in adventure, friends, grad school on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This girl has been laughing a lot this new year, which, according to the Brunei Princess is a good sign. She says how you spend your new year, what you do on the first day of it is indicative of the year you’d have. (This girl can almost hear the cog wheels of your brain [...]
washing it clean
Posted in adventure, chapters, decluttering life, emo-ments, grad school, just me, life learnings, new things, travel on December 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
People who know even the roughest cut of this girl’s 2007 adventures will know how big this past year has been for this girl. However, only a select few can fully appreciate exactly how monumental 2007 has actually been. To say the least: it has been life-changing. It was already a shaky start to the [...]
lil steps, big world (part III)
Posted in grad school, just me on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It was worse than her wisdom teeth extractions. It was the blight in her otherwise cushy lady-of-leisure life. It was the proverbial pain in her neck; thorn in the side; stone in the shoe. It gave her endless sleepless nights. It made her whiny and insecure. It was tedious and for a long while she [...]
lil steps, big world (part II)
Posted in adventure, grad school on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This girl needs to stop giving herself heart attacks. Seriously. So, today, this girl decided she was ready to deal with her Harvard applications. Its a long shot, she knows, but its only costing her US$80, some time to apply so, heck. Whatever. Anyway, as she was applying as realized she missed out on another [...]
