Academic Ponderings...

[newnumber6]

Okay, so I've been looking it over. And, at first glance, I can graduate if I get one more course after this year (it also happens to be the course I dropped this term. Yay me. Oh well). And I might be able to take that over the summer, focus exclusively on it, and pass.
It won't be graduating the 'honors program' like I initially planned. It'd just be a general Bachelor of Science- Computer Science, though.
That would probably take me at least another year, maybe more.
But I'd be done. With a good deal of money left over to find an apartment of my own, move out, and have a good reservoir until I find some nothing job and live the rest of my life alone. That came out a little more bitter and angsty than I intended. I've discovered over the past few weeks of pondering that I rather want to do this. Well, okay, sure, I'd like to have a job that's not a 'nothing job'. But my own place I can start... well, not feeling like a guest, or a mooch.
Yeah, no honors program. But, considering I've been toying with the idea of just moving out anyway and dropping out of the rest of my education, I think that's the way I'm going to go. If, of course, the course if offered in the summer.

Comments

[occamsnailfile.livejournal.com]

You're kinda where I'll be when I get out of Japan- a few more courses to take, then I'm all done and stuff, though I've already had the apartment for a while, which was one reason it was taking me longer. The idea of actually getting a Real Job (as opposed to pays-bills Jobs) is a bit scary. My sister is going to be doing that soon as well.

Yeah.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

It's kind of freaky, in its way. But, I have enough saved for (depending on the cost of the apartment, and I'll be looking for cheap), 3-6 months rent at least. The job I'll get will still probably be a 'Pays-Bills' job rather than a Real Job (depending on definitions), since that whole rent thing will be a major bill to contend with, as will paying back the student loans. ;)
I certainly hope I can manage it on my own. I really don't have any RL friends to move in with and I don't want to wind up with a stranger for a roommate. I figure an apartment all to myself will be a little more expensive but it's something I need. So, the main worry will be finding some kind of job, any kind of job, that I can tolerate and will pay enough to cover it + utilities + comics (cause if I don't get my comics, I'll go mad....der!). Hopefully it'll be one I can enjoy, like those dream jobs I see some MU*ers with that lets them be on all day, or maybe something in a bookstore. Ideally, I'd like to find a rich sponsor who'd pay me just to live in the way I'd like, but that's not very likely, alas. ;)