At the moment I am writing my personal statement for the Mitchell/Rhodes scholarships. I was going good at describing my academic and personal interests, as well as my passions. But now I'm stuck on the future goals. Currently I have "My current goals for the future are to gain research experience, work internationally, and to continue my education." Sounds pretty weak. This is mostly due to my lack of direction and also lack of any idea of what I actually want to do with my future. I've decided that if I don't get a scholarship for graduate study abroad, then I'll work for the Peace Corps. My job search has gotten itself off track as I have been looking at mostly corporate jobs. I've forgotten about my desire that my job help people in some way and I want to get back to that focus. The Peace Corps will be good because it will give me the international experience I want, it will help people, and hopefully the 2 year commitment will give me enough time to figure out a specific direction. I might do research.
On to other things. I recently replaced my stolen drivers license, so now I can legally drive other people's cars. Even though I had Mom mail me my birth certificate and social security card in order to have 2 forms of ID to prove I am indeed Amanda Jacobson, it turned out I needed no ID at all. How... secure. Though, while I looked on the U of M "people search" to figure out my permanent address I discovered that I'm not actually listed as a student, I'm listed by my "appointment." For some reason this excited me.
Tuesday I went to the sculpture garden by the Walker and it was really wet. Turned out to be not that enjoyable. I also went with Clare to the Bob Dylan exhibit at the Weisman. That was interesting because I know nothing about Bob Dylan and now I know more. Also, I know that back in the day they also moved the city of Hibbing so that the earth beneath the city could be mined. People do funny things.
There isn't much that I've done recently that warrants a post. I'm getting really excited for summer and to be able to bike around in good weather. I'm going to try and go for more bike rides and become more familiar with the cities and how to get around by bike.
I might look into working for a company that makes wind turbines.
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Would you actually work for a company making wind turbines or hop skip and frolic through the factory floor singing "I can feel it cooooooming in the air tonight" pissing off all the workers and getting fired...
I know that's what would happen to me.
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