Whimsical Me

You go girl! You gotta do a before and after pic!

Sounds like a good plan! The food at my school this year was absolutely awful and unhealthy as fuck, and I’m already a bit overweight, so I want to lose 20-30 pounds by the end of summer. We can be motivational buddies, too.

I will definitely do before and after pics! And Tom we should definitely be motivational buddies :) I’m going to start a workout plan tomorrow. I’ll send you messages to pester you about working out and such lol

I need to lose 20 lbs. It’s not a vanity thing, it’s a health thing. Anyway…I have a hard time motivating myself. But I found something as a reward that I really want.

I want this as a tattoo. So that’s my goal. Drop the 20 lbs. get a tattoo :) I think that’s a good deal, right? 

jigglytuffy:

whimsicalworldofme:

It really bothers me when people criticize me for taking out student loans for my graduate degrees. Yes, I know debt is enslaving and risky. But I also know that I want to teach at a college level and in order to do that, I am required to have advanced degrees. And graduate school costs so much that even with a steady job, it would probably take me eight years to save up enough for one year’s worth of tuition. No, I don’t want to be in debt. But the current system makes being debt-free impossible for anyone who isn’t super rich. 

So unless you are willing to pay for my schooling, kindly keep your mouth shut. 

Exactly how I felt when I told my high school teachers that I was going to community college. I mean, I had a 4.0+ GPA, but I wasn’t “Ivy League”, “Full Scholarship” material. They looked down on me for that.

Do what you have to do to accomplish what you need to do.

I did my first two years of undergrad at a local state uni because my father was footing the entire bill. Everything. But two years in and I realized that the education quality in my field was really crappy. So I transferred to a private school. It resulted in my father and I having a massive falling out and basically my being kicked out. But it’s the best move I ever made. I learned more in those two years than at any other time in my academic career. I don’t regret a thing. 

It really bothers me when people criticize me for taking out student loans for my graduate degrees. Yes, I know debt is enslaving and risky. But I also know that I want to teach at a college level and in order to do that, I am required to have advanced degrees. And graduate school costs so much that even with a steady job, it would probably take me eight years to save up enough for one year’s worth of tuition. No, I don’t want to be in debt. But the current system makes being debt-free impossible for anyone who isn’t super rich. 

So unless you are willing to pay for my schooling, kindly keep your mouth shut. 

twingeneticist:

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Nooooo :( Save the sand kitties!!!

(via hot-multifandom-mess)

keeping my fingers crossed!

ellelamaereplied to yourpost:I sent in my PhD application today!

Good luck! Take a breath and have a cup of tea. Everything will work if you will it to.

Thanks ladies! :) I think I’m going to have a cuppa and get to reading through this stack of novels I’ve been meaning to get through.

Now I feel like I might cry just anticipating what may happen next. I’m a nervous wreck.