Trying to start again
I know I haven’t posted in a long time. I have been quite busy trying to get back into Georgetown-style things. It’s hard when you have to go to class more than once a week. While I was at Oxford, I wanted to be at Georgetown with American-style education. Now that I’m here, I want to be doing English-style education. Like my mom told me, the saying is true: the grass is always greener on the other side.
So I think I’ve pretty much decided to go as long as I can finance it in some form. I just got an e-mail from the financial aid person here that the bursar at Regent’s (David Harper, whom I actually like, unlike Georgetown’s financial aid person) said I could use Stafford loans, which is good. Other than that G-town has pretty much said they can’t help me now. President Crouch is going to write a letter that I can send to all my friends and family to ask for help and Mr. Calhoun is going to try to look into some alumni stuff. But that’s it. Of course, they are setting up an endowment fund specifically for the Oxford program that I won’t benefit from because I was too soon. No one expected me to actually get in. Of course, I didn’t either. But it still sucks.
So now I’m working 4 jobs while on campus to try make a bit of money at $5.65/hour. I’m at the Equine center now, which is pretty awesome because I get to just do homework most of the time and maybe do some publicity stuff that I can put in my portfolio. I just finished writing a short story based on my visit to Bruce in the hospital, and now I have to think up something else to write another one on. My prof told me the saying to write what you know isn’t true, but I’m using it because that’s all I can think of on short notice, and I haven’t gotten to the point where I can write something well in advance of when I have to turn it in.
Okay so I’m trying to make these entries a little bit shorter than my one’s in England so I’m going to stop now, although maybe no one ever checks this thing anymore so it might never get read except by me.