Today I suddenly thought “Oh! I haven’t posted in my blog in a while. Should probably do that!” and to my horror saw that I hadn’t written anything in 3 months. It honestly felt like it’d been a month or something. It’s amazing how fast time flies, especially when you don’t want it to. But, at the same time, as the cliche goes, time’s been flying because I’ve been having fun.

I’ve made a lot of new friends and strengthened relationships with old ones. It’s great, but tinted with a bit of sadness. The fact that this is the last time I can hang out with them like this is always in the back of my mind. So, I play twice as hard to make sure the memories are amazing.

I managed to get into all three grad schools I ended up applying to. I also got offered job interviews at four different eikaiwa schools in Japan. I know that I’m really lucky for having all this choice when some people can’t find a job, but honestly, it’s killing me. If it had ended up being I could only do one or the other, then yeah, easy choice! But I want to go to graduate school and Japan for two entirely different but equally important reasons and I really don’t know how to decide.

Well, my first interview is on Saturday so we’ll see how it goes. I have to decide either way by April 15th either way so we’ll see…

My last semester as an undergraduate student. I kind of don’t want to think about it, but it’s not going to make it go away, so I guess I have to. Haha.

Only taking 4 classes this semester, and aside from the stupid speech class I have to take for my last LER, they’re all very cool. Individual & Society, Foreign Language & Culture, and Comparative Religion. I wish I could have taken more of these types of classes.

I’m working at the same old computer place and I’m TA-ing again. This time I’m in an Advanced Speaking class. I don’t like it as much as my previous class, but there are definitely a few characters in it, so it could get interesting. The teacher’s pretty cool too.

I am working on my (THANK THE LORD FINALLY) last graduate school application, which is due on Monday. I originally planned to apply to 4, which turned into 3. UPenn, Hawaii @ Manoa, and Hawaii Pacific. At this point, unless I get into UPenn or Hawaii Manoa with amazing funding (totally unlikely), I’m pretty much just planning on getting a job.

But… I’ve already applied to two places and got shot down at both. Not looking good. I’m planning on applying to 3 more eikawa schools that interview in the US/Canada, then after that I’m trying to find smaller schools to apply to. If I can’t hook a job from overseas, then I’ll probably line up interviews and go to Japan to do them.

So, in conclusion, fuck this terrible economy.

I am increasingly becoming a worse student as the school year progresses. Today, I chose to skip three classes on the last week of school so I can lounge around my friend’s apartment and do nothing. It’s a matter of priorities, you know. Ha!

But honestly, I can’t wait to be done with school. I’m applying to graduate school (oops, haven’t worked on those apps in weeks) but I’d rather just work. My Japanese friend, who has a ridiculous amount of connections, said he would help me to find a job in Japan. It’s too early for me to apply to jobs, but come spring I’m definitely applying to the big eikawa companies.

I meant to update earlier but I actually do nothing except lounge around my friend’s apartment and go to class occasionally and work. I’m going to New York City in a few weeks though so maybe I’ll have something to write about then. Although, some excitement before that would be good too.