I'm a total asshole...with debt
Okay, so this is a post about school. I know it's juvenile, but I can't help it. There some things that you just have to cherish in life and this is one of them.
So every Wednesday in my Planet Earth class we have a "lab" which is pretty much an glorified group work thing where the Professor just sits on his laptop while we scurry around trying to get the assignment done in the hour and fifteen minutes of class time. So today we were working on a tectonic plates section where each person was given a specialty area (tectonics, oceanography, volcanoes, etc) and those people were split up into groups so that every group had one person from each of the 4-5 specialty areas. We then were given continents and had to explain how their plate was moving and give a 5 minute presentation on the plates and how they moved and all that.
So my group was the first to go and we did an okay job. Nothing particularly ground shattering, but I think that we did have the hardest area. We were doing Australia and because of all those irritating little islands to the north east of it, it was causing us some issues. Anyway, we get through it and no one asks us any questions.
Of course when the other groups go up there, who's hand pops up to ask them questions? Mine... it's true. I couldn't help it! They had missed critical points in their analysis of their given areas! So I had to ask questions to illicit some thought from them. Not to mention that the Professor mentioned that he wanted people to ask questions and that would be added to part of your grade. Considering how I have near a 100% in that class, I probably didn't need to ask quite as many questions as I did, but I think it was helpful.
Laura is about to be done with work, so I will shortly be going to the gym. The other bit of news that I have is that the consulting firm that I accepted the offer from in New York was just acquired by a much larger company. Granted that most of this new companies employees are overseas is a downfall, but that's okay. They apparently have a strong financial services department, so that means that they will have a large New York City client base, so if God forbid Laura and I end up staying in New York, I'll at least be in the area.
The other good thing is that they have offices around the US, so maybe after working there for 6 months or so, I could be assigned to some project down in the South, so at that point we could move to Texas. Who knows, I still don't think that I would want to move to Texas if I were traveling all week. We're still waiting to hear back from Laura's boss about me possibly getting a position at her firm, so we'll wait and see.
I was talking to my old boss at the recruiting firm yesterday and she was telling me that I had plenty of time to find something and to not get too stressed about it. I agree with her, but at the same time I would much rather have something planned. I hate to not have plans.
Speaking of not having plans, well, I asked my parents the other day about what I will have going on for graduation in terms of if they were going to give me a car or something....HA, yeah right. My mother kindly told me today that because they had extended themselves to put me through college that I could look forward to a "token" gift as a sentimental reminder of getting the fuck out of school. It's not that I really care that they aren't getting me anything, because I kind of expected that after all the shit that I've been through getting through school and all the money that it's cost them in recent years, but still, it was the way that she stated it. Oh well we'll see.
There is some issue with my student loans that I went to the Financial Aid office today to talk to them and it turns out that I may have around $7K extra in my account. That would be nice, and I could craftily take some of that money out and you know.... go on vacation, but I assured my mother that I would use it to pay off my college loans, because after all... I do have massive amounts of debt. So we'll see. Maybe I'll just save my tax return money and see if I can put that towards some vacation or what not. Anyway, it's about time to head to the gym so we're going to do that.