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April 11, 2006
Preparing for the Future
So I took an Economics midterm AND a Calculus midterm today--and I wasn't worried about either one of them. I'm in the unique position of being the only Senior in two of my classes, and with grad school layed out before me like a picnic blanket, the rest of my year here will basically be one long really good day. And I think it started today.
I took a three-hour nap and watched an hour of Sex and the City with my hilarious friend Martie. Yes, I still have my thesis to work on, but that is coming along nicely, and I think I will be able to finish stress-free (which is a big accomplishment for me). So far, I have about 39 of the 60 required pages, and it's due on April 21. So I have 11 days to write 21 pages which comes out to roughly 2 pages a day--which is completely doable. My aim is to write a whole 8 pages between tonight and tomorrow night, so that would dramatically reduce the workload. We'll see...
I finally received my application from the University of Ghana, which means that I am very possibly going to receive a MA in African Studies! That would be crazy, because then I'd end up with 3 Masters by the age of 26. I'm definitely not trying to collect degrees, but I'm really excited about all three programs. I don't know how excited I'll be about all three Masters theses. As much as I've enjoyed working on my thesis this semester, I'm definitely confident and ready to do another one (hopefully shorter...)
So I plead my case to the powers that be at both the Kennedy and the Business School at Harvard, and I was successful at getting the tuition deposit waived at the B-school, which is a big $1000 relief. I will be sending in both confirmations very soon. Three years in the Northeast, here I come! I'm excited about Winter coat shopping and there's also the much bigger deal of the apartment hunt. Luckily, I'll have three close friends going to Harvard before I get there, so they can do some preliminary scouting for me.
Soon it will also be time to make arrangements for flying to NYC for my summer internship with SEO. I have housing (yay!), but I've yet to find out which foundation I'll be working for. I'm anxious and hesitant at the same time to buy my flight to NYC because I'm not entirely sure when my intership actually starts. I want to give myself at least a FEW days at home before I leave for NYC and I definitely want to have at least a week at home before I leave to Ghana. I'm sure I'll know more very soon, and the key is to not go Googling around, worrying myself to death about it (what I'm really good at).
It's also time to send out graduation invitations, which has actually turned into a predicament. I really want to send out evites, but my mom says that's tacky (and Lord knows I would hate to look tacky!), and I don't want to deter people from buying me fabulous graduation gifts with a tacky invitation (I'm only half-kidding. I am banking on graduation gifts to replenish my bank account and to buy my suits I need for my job this summer). Therefore, I've gone a few steps above tacky (didn't quite make it to elegant) and I've decided to use the cards from my Jazz Series Faith Ringgold set, which I love, and really need to use before they get swallowed up in the moving process. So it's settled. I'll be using a somewhat unrelated card to announce my graduation party, but that's what it's going to be.
I'll go all out on the invitations when it's the announcement of my graduation from Harvard! Okay, it's time to reward myself with a Snickers bar and write some more of my thesis.
Posted by kaneisha at April 11, 2006 06:44 AM
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Hey Kaneisha, how long do you plan to be in Ghana?
Posted by: Joy at April 11, 2006 07:17 PM