Need Answers for the questions of my life right now...can anybody help??

Right now, I am wishing that there is some way that all the questions about what I am going to be doing in the near future (especially the fall semester) would just some how appear. If that could actually happen, I think that I could actually enjoy my summer a little bit more than I am now without the stress of these couple of issues.


So here are my wonderful problems:


Internship:

So apparenty my wonderful school thinks that in order to graduate that I should have to do an internship. I can see thir point. But what I don't get is that we (the students) have to pay the school full tuition so that we can go work somewhere for free! So this fall, I have to pay 1-2 thousand dollars just to do this!! I don't see the concept in that...but oh well...can't do anything about that. But my major problem is, trying to find an assistantship ( for all that don't know...assistantship = paid internship). Trying to find one is like trying to find a needle in a haystack! Hardly...no...no one around this area offers any. So I went around Marion and Herrin giving out my resume and a letter saying what I was looking for. I also threw in, that it would be nice to get an assistantship, because if I dont...here's my options (FYI: I only told them about the first one that I am about to explain)

1. Work forty hours a week for the internship and then have to work at my current postion on the weekends, so i total of at least 76 hours a week of working!! not looking forward to that at all!

2. Or I could take out a loan that would cover my expensives for the semester and just work at my internship and then have no life since I won't be able to do anything extra that much.

So either way that I go...in the end I will have no social life for the semester...what is a girl to do in this situation?? lol

But I am hopeful that one of the places that I went to yesterday will feel sorry for me and let me do have an assistantship!

Life in the Navy:

So as you all know, I am enlisted in the Navy and will be leaving for Great Lakes, IL for bootcamp in Jan. I know what you all are thinking, because I am thinking the same thing...It's going to be freezing up there and why are you going then and not when it is warmer?? If i could change my date to at least to when it is slightly warmer, believe me I would!! But anywho, thats not my problem that I am trying to figure out.

My current situation is trying to figure out if I should try and go Officer or not? When people hear this they automatically say that I should, since it would be a lot better than just going in enlisted. Believe me I know this! But as of right now, the jobs that I qualify for are not really what I want to do. And the job that I got when I go enlisted is what I want to do.

Another aspect is that, if I stay enlisted, there is a good chance that I can get my loans paid off that I have from school. The Officer program doesn't offer this. So from a finacial stand point, it is better to stay enlisted. Especailly if they will pay off the biggest loan that I have! But on the other hand, wondering what to do if they should happen not to pay them off?? Stay enlisted or try the Officer route? (that is if I get accepted to the program)




So for all that are still reading this, THANK YOU, for letting me get some things off of my chest. Besides these two things, my life is going pretty well right now. I have a trip planned to Chicago this weekend and then a trip to Florida in July. I can't wait to get away from this area for a while, just for a little break and not have to think about any thing.

So have a great day!

Hurricane in SO ILL.....who knew that could happen??

Well everyone because of our crazy weather that we can get in So Ill...we experienced an !INLAND HURRICANE! on friday afternoon. it all started when we got a pretty good storm on friday around 0030 or so. we had hail up to 2 inches and needless to say, i got some dings in my hood of my car. so not too bad i thought.

so then on friday morning i got a call from my mom saying that i needed to go to her house and stay with my dog, tinker, because she is really afraid of storms and strong winds. so i did some running around that morning and then got to my parents house around 11 or a little after. thank goodness that i did go over there, because if i did stay at my house, my car would have gotten smashed by car limbs that fell arround my roommates car.

so about this inland hurricane...it was the worst storm that i have ever gone through! it was crazy! we had winds that got up to 106 mph! we were lucky that we had no damage to the house or vehicles, but some people were not as lucky. i will post pictures once the power gets back on. we have been without power since friday afternoon and we dont know when they will have it back on. there are about 45000 people in the surrounding area that are without power right now. but at least we have water and hot water as that!!

but we have been volunteering at the fire station since my dad is on the fire department...so we have been able to have good food and been able to stay busy during al of this. but during the night we have had a county wide curfew that goes from 2000-0600 to prevent extra traffic on the roads to get in the way of the crews and to prevent theft since there are a lot of businesses that are not opened because of the power outage.

so hopefully we will have power soon so that i can upload some pics just to show you what damages of an inland hurricane looks like.

until next time