Homeless

Well I have moved everything out, I have cleaned everything, and I have checked out. I am officially homeless. I am so happy to get out of there, I hated that place. I can't wait to get into my new place next week. Until then I am staying at Laura's (my new roommate) current apartment. I realized last night that I have never lived with just one other person before. Obviously growing up there was always at least two people living in the same house with me, and then since I have started college the least amount of roommates I have had is two. I am excited to have more freezer space. Laura's current roommate, Kate, will be staying with us until she moves to Chicago come September, so that will be a nice buffer to get used to living with only one other person.

This post is mostly for Heidi

Back in the fall, shortly after my first semester of grad school started, Heidi sent me an awesome care package with cookies and bread and other goodies. Well I ate almost all of the cookies except for about 3 and then they fell between my bed and the wall, and I thought, "oh i will get those later." Well I have finally moved by bed away from the wall and so I have rescued the cookies. I decided not to eat them and instead just threw them away. But at least I finally got around to getting them!

Moving...

I am in the middle of my 8th move in 5 years. I am out of my apartment at the end of this week and I don't get into my new apartment until August 7th. I am moving a lot of my stuff into a storage unit that my friend rented and is letting me use the extra space. I am staying with my new roommate in her current place until we can move into our new place. What a mess... I can't wait to be settled again.

I have done a lot of packing/moving, but I still have a ways to go. I have so much clothes all over the place and pretty much none of it is folded... I just want to throw it in a box and say good enough, but I know I will regret that later. I am not sure how I am going to get my minifridge and TV out of here and down the 3 flights of stairs. I think I am strong enough for the TV, but the fridge might be a bit too big... it will be an adventure.

These guys are pretty excited about moving.

Back in TN

Well I made it back to TN safely. I left Mankato around 5 pm on Saturday, and got back just after 7 this morning. Now I have to face the reality of going back to work, and packing up all my stuff so I can move... yuk.

I cried in class tonight...

I have come to the conclusion that I chose the wrong masters program. The professors here are worthless. I have had an incredible amount of issues with my thesis and it is very frustrating. I will summarize quickly: My first thesis topic fell through bc it was supposed to be done with the support of an organization and since they decided they only wanted to do one study they had to choose from 3 students who wanted to work with them. Obviously they didn't choose mine. So after I had started research on that and started to gather articles for a lit review it was scrapped. Then I move on and found a new adviser. I should have known from the start that this was not gonna be good because she didn't ever seem to remember things we talked about between meetings. One meeting we would discuss one topic, the next week I would have a new topic. So eventually I settled on one (kinda). I was in a lit review class at the time and since we had assignments due I had to do a very quick (and crappy) lit review for this new topic. I gave the things i was working on to my adviser the whole time, but never received any feedback on anything. So basically it turned in to me trying to do it on my own. I have emailed her a few times this summer with questions getting a few word replies, or a "i'll get back to you on that" which has been less than helpful. So it was up to me trying to figure out how my analyses will work and how it will all come together. I find out tonight that the way I am trying to do it probably won't work, and I don't understand how it is supposed to work. And changing it now will change a lot of stuff. So basically I am sitting in class, my whole thesis is a mess, and I have no clue what is going on. And this is when I find out (from my peers who don't even have her as their adviser) that my "adviser" is on a leave of absence for the next year. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?!?! Don't you think this might be something you tell a student that you are responsible for helping. And that is when I lost it and started crying. What's that you say, not a big deal? Oh I forgot to mention, my research methods plan is due on Thursday. (and I am driving to MN on Wednesday night, and I haven't packed anything yet, and I slept all of 3 hours last night sind i stayed up working on what I have learned is complete crap, so I guess I would kinda like to sleep before I drive 16 hours). I am going to get my first B in grad school and it is going to be due greatly to incompetent faculty.

The faculty are absolute crap here. When I was trying to find an adviser (the first and second time) everybody tried their best to dodge it as though it would be the worst thing in the world to advise a student on a thesis. Seriously, they should probably all teach undergraduates so they don't have to deal with such things as thesis and practicum. We have 7 faculty members here, and I can honestly say, that one professor in MSU's I/O program is leaps and bounds better than all 7 of them here.

So I might be a tad on the angry side, but after having to find my own practicum and now doing my thesis on my own, I am not too thrilled. This program doesn't deserve the reputation that it has.

I win for sure!

Yesterday I got an email from FedEx to track my battery.

Today my battery was dropped off at my door and waited for me until I got home from work.

Now my computer has a new battery.

I win!