Trivial Matters

Because of the holiday I didn’t have my Technical Communication class last week. So I glossed over the assignments due this week as I focused on the classes that were coming up. I knew I had to do a resume and cover letter, but had forgotten about the annotated bibliography for the paper due at the end of the term. (Who asks for a bibliography four weeks in advance anyway?)

Then I see that there’s also a write-up due on an article from HowStuffWorks.com and some other prep that has to be done for the in-class work that night. All told, 80 of the 385 points in the class are all due Tuesday. I hope nobody decides to skip the next class.

In other school news, I applied to Pacific University last week. I had visited the campus over a month ago and never heard back from their transfer advisor (who was out that day). Then, all of a sudden, I get a packet in the mail (filled with the same stuff I got at her office), an email telling me they’ll waive the application fee, and two phone calls.

I wouldn’t mind going there instead of Oregon State. It’s closer to home. I can finish two degrees in three years (I think). And it’ll give me a month break in January to do my 3 weeks with the Army. The only downside is that it is a private university and costs about 4 times what OSU does. They have some scholarships, but even with that, my GI Bill, and Tuition Assisstance, I’m still about a $1000 in the hole before I even think about books and living expenses. And that’s just the first semester.

Oregon State is cheap enough that I can pay for school and books and have enough left over to live on. Not much, mind you, but I wouldn’t have to worry about working 40 hours a week on top of class. Plus, I’ve already been accepted to OSU as a non-degree seeking student. Which was an accident, by the way. I filled out the online application back when I thought I was deploying, so I could take some classes online while I was there. When the deployment got cancelled, I sent in the application, not realizing that it was for non-degree status. So now I’m waiting until I can get enough money for the additional application fee to send in the degree-seeking application.

Worst case scenario is that I can only take 8 credits (2 math clases) next term, which would put me in part-time status so I wouldn’t get as much from my GI Bill and would have to get a part-time job in Corvallis. (Which wouldn’t be so bad given that I’d only have two classes, three days a week.)

Decisions, decisions…

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