My current commute to school is exactly one hour. I don’t think I’ll be able to keep that up during vet school, so I’ve been weighing my options.
The sensible thing to do would be to sell my house and move to an apartment near school. But… maybe that’s not so sensible considering:
1) my house, in a tourist town, is a REALLY good investment
2) I love my peaceful little cabin in the woods because
3) I think I would go insane if I lived in a city. Plus
4) my other half lives in the tourist town, and I would like to see him more than once a week.
So, with all those factors in mind, I’ve been looking at living halfway in between. In an ideal world, I would rent my current house and buy a house at the bottom of the canyon I drive each day. I’d be half an hour from school and half an hour from my other half, plus I’d still be in a rural, wooded area.
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Feb 14, 2010 | | Non-Traditional Students, Paying for School
Hooray, I am done with school for the year!
Finals are over, grades are in, and now I can relax. Well, I can start working my patooti off to save money for next school year, anyway.
The last month of school was incredibly stressful. I don’t think I’ve ever studied so hard, but it paid off with straight A pluses in upper division science classes. Sorry, CSU vet school, but I just can’t do any better than that… I hope it’s good enough!
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May 23, 2009 | | Getting In, Non-Traditional Students
This post is really about two things:
1) the “old age” aspect of returning to school, and
2) the money aspect of returning to school, and
3) (I lied) the intersection of the two.
For anybody that’s thinking of taking the plunge and who just can’t get over the age thing (it took me about three years to get over it… three years that I could’ve been in school!), I offer you this:
The best piece of advice I got was from someone who was doing exactly what I wanted to do. She went back to school in her late thirties, and she is now a well-known holistic vet. Here’s what she said:
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Apr 20, 2009 | | Non-Traditional Students, Paying for School
So, I received my official rejection letter from CSU’s vet school a couple months ago, and am just now getting around blogging about it. Why? Because I wanted to see what they had to say in my “file review,” i.e., my post-rejection interview.
It’s pretty cool that they even do this: basically, I got a one-on-one conversation with an admissions committee member to go over strengths and weaknesses in my application.
Now, some of you out there may be thinking, “Holy crap! She got a 1540 on the GRE and didn’t get into vet school?! I’m screwed…” Not so fast.
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Mar 26, 2009 | | Getting In, Non-Traditional Students
I got my grades today, and I am thrilled to report that I got straight A’s. I think the last time that happened was in 1992. So why, you might ask, am I whining?
Because there’s no standard as to whether professors award plus and/or minus grades. In two of my classes, there were no pluses or minuses. In another, there were pluses but not minuses. In yet another, there were traditional pluses and minuses, and in the last one, there were some pluses and some minuses, but no A pluses. HUH?! Read the rest of this entry »
Dec 23, 2008 | | Non-Traditional Students
