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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Sunday, March 18, 2007
Thursday, March 1, 2007
The white stuff
I mean snow, not crack.
Today we have a super winter storm! For me snow is nothing but goodness because I don't have to drive in it, shovel it, or travel far for class. I suppose biking in the snow is difficult, mostly because the U likes to put recently cleared snow over the bike racks. Making parking my bike a tricky thing to do, as can be seen here:
Notice the almost complete submersion of the bike on the left.
Surprisingly the U decided to cancel classes today begining at 2:30, just in time for me to finish up all my classes. Sweet, thanks. It's good for everyone else who has class I guess, go them. When I woke up this morning a took a look out the window expecting to see some more snow falling down, however there wasn't any new snow in the courtyard. Logically I figured I needn't worry about walking to class in some mushy snow. Contrary to logic my walk to class, which usually looks like this:
Notice the large buildings of downtown.
Looked more like this:
No more downtown!
Earlier (when I didn't have my camera), the snow was coming down in really large flakes and was soo pretty. Now the wind has picked up and it's more like freezing rain that accumulates.
I'm still happy though. I'll be happier when I get a thin headband, so that I can wear my helmet and still have warm ears.
I just thought this was cute:
Clearing snow off the sidewalks.
On an unrelated and overachieving note, I went to an information session on Scholarships for Graduate Study in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since I got so much support for my ELP presentation I've got this notion that I could possibly be a Rhodes Scholar. So I'll be working on applying for that from now until April 2. More importantly, there is a Mitchell Scholarship for any university in Ireland, which I (maybe) have a bit of a shot at. I'll be trying hard not to keep my hopes up. Though I am researching universities. I found the National University of Ireland - Galway offers a masters program in HRIR for one year (the duration of the scholarship). I'm excited because I've been thinking about doing a masters in Ireland. A scholarship would make things lots easier! They even take you around the country to see places and meet important people. I'd like to meet Bertie.
Today we have a super winter storm! For me snow is nothing but goodness because I don't have to drive in it, shovel it, or travel far for class. I suppose biking in the snow is difficult, mostly because the U likes to put recently cleared snow over the bike racks. Making parking my bike a tricky thing to do, as can be seen here:
Notice the almost complete submersion of the bike on the left.Surprisingly the U decided to cancel classes today begining at 2:30, just in time for me to finish up all my classes. Sweet, thanks. It's good for everyone else who has class I guess, go them. When I woke up this morning a took a look out the window expecting to see some more snow falling down, however there wasn't any new snow in the courtyard. Logically I figured I needn't worry about walking to class in some mushy snow. Contrary to logic my walk to class, which usually looks like this:
Notice the large buildings of downtown.Looked more like this:
No more downtown!Earlier (when I didn't have my camera), the snow was coming down in really large flakes and was soo pretty. Now the wind has picked up and it's more like freezing rain that accumulates.
I'm still happy though. I'll be happier when I get a thin headband, so that I can wear my helmet and still have warm ears.
I just thought this was cute:
Clearing snow off the sidewalks.On an unrelated and overachieving note, I went to an information session on Scholarships for Graduate Study in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since I got so much support for my ELP presentation I've got this notion that I could possibly be a Rhodes Scholar. So I'll be working on applying for that from now until April 2. More importantly, there is a Mitchell Scholarship for any university in Ireland, which I (maybe) have a bit of a shot at. I'll be trying hard not to keep my hopes up. Though I am researching universities. I found the National University of Ireland - Galway offers a masters program in HRIR for one year (the duration of the scholarship). I'm excited because I've been thinking about doing a masters in Ireland. A scholarship would make things lots easier! They even take you around the country to see places and meet important people. I'd like to meet Bertie.
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