There is nothing better than sitting back in bed on a rainy night and reading The New Yorker. I just subscribed to the magazine (along with New York and Vanity Fair) in an attempt to become more informed and well-read, thinking that the process of switching from trashy tabloids to substantial journalism might be a little arduous, but I have been pleasantly surprised thus far. The New Yorker has it all. Seriously. The latest issue discusses everything from the history of smuggled Chinatown immigrants (Did you know that one woman was the key figure in a three and a half BILLION dollar people-smuggling empire that led to the Chinese immigrant population in the US growing tenfold in less than 20 years?), to cannibalism in the 1740s Wild West, to Al Gore’s upcoming documentary on the frightening state of the environment (more on that one later). Forgive that run-on sentence, but this magazine is juicy. – Columbia is giving me $5300 for the first year. Hopefully, I will get $3000-$4000 from New York State; I won’t find out until they pass the state budget, which is late for the year as usual. The school costs $1301 per credit; I plan to take at least 12 credits a semester. And then there are books and living expenses. This is all adding up to me applying for every private scholarship I can even loosely qualify for this summer. And then still taking out massive loans. If I’m lucky, year one will be the only serious debt-piler. I hear that if I get really involved (giving campus tours, doing school activities) and perform really well academically, I will get monumentally more aid in the subsequent years. This is why I plan on not keeping my job. I really, really, really have to focus on school. The stakes are too high. Maybe I can work a nice little work-study job for 15 hours or so a week, but definitely not my current job. I am going to defy statistics. I am going to succeed. I’ve done it before in moving here; I will do it again in the next stage of my life. filed under: misc | comments: Leave a commentLine and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:
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aww. good luck! you live the life i wish i could be living. i’m too chicken.
Comment by Justine — April 23, 2006 @ 1:22 am
Yes, you will succeed, young man! Just keep your eye on the mark. Take care, Jerry
Comment by Jerry Hanson — April 23, 2006 @ 4:25 am
I wish you the best.
Comment by jack — April 24, 2006 @ 9:16 am