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January 10, 2006
Finally, it is done...now what?
Happy New Year! I had a great New Year's Eve. I hosted a party with my good friend Zack at his family's ranch house, and it was full of screaming, dancing, and drinking like all New Year's Eves should be. The best part was that we made it a huge sleepover, so everyone made it home safe in the morning.
And then I finished my applications. It was fairly painless. An hour before my application was due, one of my HBS recs still hadn't been turned in, and there was a lot of short-term freaking out on my part. But I called Harvard, and they kindly told me that they would still consider me in Round 2 whether that last rec came in or not. It did eventually come in, and I could breathe again.
I ended up translating a 17-page research paper I wrote in Spanish while studying abroad in Cuba, because I was dead-set on submitting the optional writing sample to the Harvard MPP program. Then I had a ten-minute bout with anxiety because I feared that my ambiguous position on socialism in Cuba might make me look anti-American or something. Then, I realized that the Kennedy School of Government would never be so short-sighted and biased to let me in or not let me in because of what they suspect my political beliefs might be. Wow, Dubya's Homeland Security and such has really left an impression on people. It has me questioning whether I should have submitted a project I worked really hard on...
It's now that last week of my Winter Break where most of my Austin friends have returned to school far away, and for some curious reason, my Austin friends that are still here don't want to spend EVERY SINGLE MINUTE with me like my best friends Leah and JJ do, so that's been an adjustment. My house shuts down at 10 pm, since my parents and sister have work and school, and thus begins my quiet night-life where I write carefully crafted emails, watch hours of TV, surf the web looking up stuff like, "Who played the Oompa Loompah in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?" and then being like, "Wow! Why was he born in Nairobi?"
Thank God I still have an hour of Sex and the City left on my Netflix DVD. I also have a movie I want to see, but it just seems really deperessing and not like something I want to watch at night by myself.
Life in Austin seems like it would be way better if I had my car here, but I don't think so. I enjoy not driving, and not having my car forces me to slow down a bit and just chill out. Spending time with my family has been nice, but they all go to bed three hours before I'm even thinking about going to sleep. Maybe I should take up night-time yoga or knitting or meditation. Something that will keep me from watching hours and hours of TV and wanting to eat just because I'm bored.
Maybe some comments from my readers would keep me occupied! Until next time...
Posted by kaneisha at January 10, 2006 05:23 AM