More with the miscellaneous.

[kiya]

Things I've been forgetting to mention:

My commission from ursulav arrived last week, and it looks the tremendously terrific. Cow heads! Woo! Cow heads! Moo!

teinedreugan got me a terrific early birthday present: a heavy metal and glass goblet, with the bowl of the goblet supported by a pair of winged Aset figures. It's gorgeous. I have it upstairs with my statues at the moment; it'll get a nice central place when I put together my altar.

Now for the gnawing ponderly:

The current thought about the college thing is trying to apply to BU for archaeology. Most of the modern languages I want to pick up I can do through the Boston Language Institute if I want to go that route. If I don't place out of whatever foreign language requirements BU has (I placed out of Wellesley's and took a little Greek anyway) I'll study Yoruba. (Also available at BLI, but, man, Yoruba. To quote ibnfirnas, "Besides, Yoruba religion's at the root of Santeria and Vodoun. Which makes it interesting right -there-.")

This may mean calling them to get information about how they feel about transferring credit from people who went insane and dropped out of school in 1997, and whether they'll let me. Or sending them an email; sending them an email is much less frightening. Scary damn things, telephones. Must discuss with teinedreugan. Also must talk to the BU people about how they feel about part-time students or adult going back to schoolness or whatever. I know they do part-timers, I saw it listed when I was scowling at tuitions.

I don't think I'd have any issues with getting in if I were applying seven years ago; I had the IB diploma, kickass SATs and AP exams to back that up, and hadn't been out of school for coming on six years (since I left Wellesley in mid-February, coming up on nearly exactly). I have no idea what my "medical leave" and subsequent indifference to formal schooling will do to that. Sigh.

Well, that's the news from my pondering. Back to work (one sentence so far today; not adequate).

Comments

[ardaniel]

There's an initiate of Ifa on the film faculty at BU. I'd assume his Yoruban is quite good, considering he got the Grand Diviner of the tribe to come give a guest lecture one afternoon.

[kiya]

*whistles* Neat.

[morningwind.livejournal.com]

My commission from ursulav arrived last week, and it looks the tremendously terrific. Cow heads! Woo! Cow heads! Moo!

Do you have a picture of it? :) I'd love to see what it looks like!

That Boston Language Institute looks awesome! The thing is, I love foreign languages...but foreign languages don't love me back (meaning: I'm not very good at them). I did well in Intensive Intermediate Spanish last semester, but I feel that if I ever want to tackle a completely different language, I'd have to do it outside of college; I have too much on my plate now as is.

I'm also scared of communicating with people over the phone. Eep.

[kiya]

I've got it in .jpg form; would you like me to email you a copy? I think I have a working address for you around here somewhere.

I love languages. I'm not bad with them, either, but I can't seem to study them effectively outside a classroom. I just faff about without the structure.


Phones -- agh. I've never liked them, and that was only rendered worse by the trauma of having to work as a receptionist for a year and a day. I knew I had to get out of the job when my response to a ringing phone was to snarl (because I couldn't shout) "Shut the fuck up!" and then pick it up and have to be cheerful "Accounting and lawroffice, can I help you?" I knew I'd get 'em backwards at some point. . .

[morningwind.livejournal.com]

My e-mail is refractionsofdawn@hotmail.com. (And I'm going to take a wild guess and say that your commission is a HetHert thing, based on the "Cow heads!" and "Moo!" comments *grins*)

See, I also think that I need the structure of a classroom in order for foreign languages to get through to me effectively. But...when I'm also taking several other courses that are sucking up massive amounts of time, the idea of suddenly starting a new language in college doesn't seem as appealing. :(

I knew I had to get out of the job when my response to a ringing phone was to snarl (because I couldn't shout) "Shut the fuck up!" and then pick it up and have to be cheerful "Accounting and lawroffice, can I help you?" I knew I'd get 'em backwards at some point.

LOL! Reminds me of when the phone rings while my mom is in the middle of a screaming argument with me. "And if you think that you can just fuck up in Calculus... Hello? *sweetly* Why, hello, Sylvia, how are you?"

[kiya]

Yup!

When I asked ursulav if she liked the idea for the piece, she responded with two things; "I've always wanted to do Hathor", and "Cow heads! Woo!" I have decided that "Cow heads! Moo!" is probably a better expression. ;)


Yeah, one's actual major classes can sort of eat brain. That was the thing that startled me the first time I tried this whole college thang.


And yes, exactly like that. I still hate phones and won't use 'em unless I have to -- though having a cellphone that I can program helps a lot dealing with some of the phobic responses (which are related to a morbid terror of dialing wrong numbers).

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Can I have a copy too? Getting pics in email is annoying for me, but I really wanna see, and it's not on her site.

[larksdream]

I'm also scared of communicating with people over the phone. Eep.

Me too! I thought I was the only one.

[rainfallsautumn.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds wonderful, Lilairen. Best of luck with it. I'll be interested to hear what you're told about going back to school, since I'm thinking along that line (at some point) and I've been out 13 years now. Most universities have some kind of provision for returning students, but the problem tends to be that it's focused in businessy fields and doesn't really do as much to address older students in the humanities.

[kiya]

We'll see how I do at working up the nerve and the tuits.

I'm sort of amused that I've suddenly manifested a case of wannagobacktoschool. I didn't really have anything but inertia getting me into college in the first place, though, so I suppose better late than never . . .

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I've been having cravings in that direction for a while. Part of my problem is that I would kind of like to finish at Wellesley (since I was less than 2 months away when I melted), but they don't do night classes for the most part. I probably should just try to transfer everything somewhere else. But, of course, now I have the problem of trying to do that with a baby. Not such a good plan...

[mindways]

From what I've seen, on average:

a. People who go to college later in life (ie: after being out of education for some number of years) tend to be more motivated and...adjusted to life?...than folks who head there as the default thing to do after high school;

b. Colleges realize this.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

a) BU has the Metropolitan College for people with wacky schedules due to working and stuff, so you can take college at night, but I don't recommend it over their more traditional schools if you have a choice. I didn't think much of the professors. (I took two classes there, both introductory ones.)

b) Everywhere /I've/ applied is just fine taking credits from schools you later stopped going to. (They also didn't bat an eyelash at the news that I took medical leave from Bryn Mawr, which I assume was on my transcript. I never mentioned it in my applications, myself.) I'm 99% positive you'd have to re-take the SATs, though, because six years is a long time. I am definitely NOT sure about the APs, though.