It was a dynamic morning here at the palatial, imitation estate of DDB. I had two very interesting phone calls. The second, which we\u2019ll discuss first, came from the Apple Store here in Carmel. \u201cThe 20 GB iPod you requested arrived this morning. You can pick it up anytime today. Thank you for spending more money on Apple products.\u201d
\nMy shiny, sexy, little beast of a music player is sucking up music from my hard drive as I type.<\/p>\n
The first call was far more life changing. I officially turned down the job my employer had offered me to replace the one they eliminated. In doing so, I informed them I will be leaving the company to focus on applying and hopefully being admitted to graduate school in the near future. It\u2019s going to take some epic work on the GREs to make up for my sorry ass undergraduate efforts, meaning I\u2019ll be hitting the books hard for the next few months. I find it highly ironic that after finally getting my act together and graduating, then having a pretty high level of success at a Fortune 500 company for almost seven years, and thinking the disaster that was my undergraduate transcript was buried in the dust bin of history, that now that I\u2019ve decided there\u2019s something I REALLY want to do, it could all come back to haunt me. Life is funny that way, isn\u2019t it?
\nI\u2019m optimistic that between a winning essay, good interviews, establishing a solid rapport with the administration, and as I said, acing the GREs, I\u2019ll be a candidate for a master\u2019s in Journalism sometime soon. My academic woes in the past will keep me from even thinking about applying to the nationally ranked program at IU-Bloomington. However, I\u2019m hopeful I can gain entrance to their satellite program at IUPUI here in Indy. We shall see. This is either a brilliant move that will allow me to do something I was probably meant to do, or a huge disaster that will lead towards perpetual underemployment, divorce, and me living under an overpass somewhere. OK, that\u2019s a little dramatic, I admit. I\u2019ll keep you updated as the process unfolds. I\u2019m certainly quite excited about the path life is leading me down.<\/p>\n
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It was a dynamic morning here at the palatial, imitation estate of DDB. I had two very interesting phone calls. The second, which we\u2019ll discuss first, came from the Apple Store here in Carmel. \u201cThe 20 GB iPod you requested arrived this morning. You can pick it up anytime today. Thank you for spending more money on Apple products.\u201d My shiny, sexy, little beast of a music player is sucking up music from my hard drive as I type. The first call was far more life changing. I officially turned down the job my employer had offered me to replace the one they eliminated. In doing so, I informed them I will be leaving the company to focus on applying and hopefully being admitted to graduate school in the near future. It\u2019s going to take some epic work on the GREs to make up for my sorry ass undergraduate efforts, meaning I\u2019ll be hitting the books hard for the next few months. I find it highly ironic that after finally getting my act together and graduating, then having a pretty high level of success at a Fortune 500 company for almost seven years, and thinking the disaster that was my undergraduate transcript was buried in the dust bin of history, that now that I\u2019ve decided there\u2019s something I REALLY want to do, it could all come back to haunt me. Life is funny that way, isn\u2019t it? I\u2019m optimistic that between a winning essay, good interviews, establishing a solid rapport with the administration, and as I said, acing the GREs, I\u2019ll be a candidate for a master\u2019s in Journalism sometime soon. My academic woes in the past will keep me from even thinking about applying to the nationally ranked program at IU-Bloomington. However, I\u2019m hopeful I can gain entrance to their satellite program at IUPUI here in Indy. We shall see. This is either a brilliant move that will allow me to do something I was probably meant to do, or a huge disaster that will lead towards perpetual underemployment, divorce, and me living under an overpass somewhere. OK, that\u2019s a little dramatic, I admit. I\u2019ll keep you updated as the process unfolds. I\u2019m certainly quite excited about the path life is leading me down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,83,82],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grad-school","tag-personal","tag-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15636,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/15636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}