Weird.

[ladymirth]

Okay, I have to say this…have you ever checked out your Friends page to find the exact same meme plastered all over it from top to bottom? Seriously it’s weird! All my friends have posted the same meme on the same day!

 

Whoa! I guess venting is pretty popular this season!

 

The meme in question, of course, is the one where you say something you want to tell someone but never will, and you have to post them without revealing who they’re meant for. I’m not gonna do it, because I honestly don’t think I have not said anything I really wanted to tell somebody.

 

Hang on, I tell a lie. I’ve always wanted to tell our Deputy Principal that she is a penultimate bitch and that the school has been going downhill ever since she took over. But maybe I’ll get a chance to say it to her yet, once I’ve passed out and she can’t expel me.

 

The upside to having a tendency to shoot my mouth off is the fact that I never feel repressed. Well, not for long. The downside to it, which significantly outweighs the upside, is that everyone thinks I have a borderline personality disorder and my parents think I’m a juvenile delinquent.

 

Well screw that. At least I got to chuck my pencil case at that insufferable Yathindra’s head in grade 9. Granted, it merely flew past her ear and bounced off the door instead of inflicting the desired cranial damage, but I’d say I made a definite statement.  That alone is worth a stint in a correction facility.

 

Ha! Repressed individual I am not! Mainly because, I suspect, I am a psycho who thinks actively endeavoring to crack open a poor girl’s skull, with a flimsy piece of stationery no less, is the epitomized example of a self-actualized personality.

 

Well, not really. I just find attempting to inflict bodily harm extremely therapeutic.

 

Yep, definitely psycho.

 

Ah, well, here’s to twenty years in a straight jacket!

Comments

[missile-envy.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome for the advice, and I hope it's helpful. Having never dealt with UK universities, I can't give you much help there, but if it makes you feel any better, the high end American universities aren't any more understanding. If you're going to a state university or a small liberal arts school, you can apply as undecided. But otherwise it's the same trap. My cushy full ride was largely through the business school, so when I decided to change my major, all the nice administrators who had previously worked out my schedule for me and talked football with me and invited me in to visit them in their offices whenever I needed help suddenly turned into strangers.

I'll certainly agree that the tuition for foreign students in the UK and the US is utterly fucking ridiculous, especially since you can't qualify for the kind of grants and financial aid that residents and citizens can, though I know that certain countries have programs to help out students who go abroad for higher education. Which is to say that I know for a fact that none of the Chinese kids I went to college with paid a dime for their educations. Again, I don't know how things work in the UK, but if you're applying as a foreign student in the US, how much you pay for your tuition depends on your major. If you're coming to the US from Pluto and want to major in engineering, you WILL get a full ride.

But full ride or not, the least of your worries is how your parents are going to pay for it all. Really, it's not selfish. They saved up for this and planned for this, and they're your parents. They're sending you to college with an acute awareness of how well your career will allow you to take care of them later on in life. A nice retirement home without any pending civil action suits against it, for instance. Preferably with weekly Bingo.

Feel free to forward my e-mail to your friend. I don't know if I said it in there, but things have changed a LOT since I applied to colleges. The number of college applications have risen dramatically, and all of the American universities have been upping their requirements like mad and turning people away they'd have accepted without a second glance a few years ago. So she shouldn't feel bad. Just like those of us who graduated from college into one of the worst job markets in several decades, she's kinda screwed by circumstance. That's why we apply to backup schools. And please assure her that everybody I know who had to settle for one of their backup schools ended up just fine, I promise. Frankly, at a big state school, you have a lot more options if you're not sure what you want to do yet (the course listings used to make me drool), and it's a lot easier to make your whole college experience into what you want, instead of spending four years taking exactly what your advisor tells you to take. My best friend had his heart broken by Stanford and had to settle, then ended up being able to double major in Anthropology and Neurobiology with a minor in Chinese -- something he admits he never would have been able to pull off at Stanford. He would've had the connections and the nice impressive name on his resume, but he never would've had the freedom to study what he really wanted to study. Which is, in theory, what college is all about. So anyway. Hope that helps.