The Eternal Student

      I have been so preoccupied by grad school, which I still haven’t made a decision about, that I haven’t even mentioned the fact that I’m headed to Spain for 10 days! That’s right, I’m going to Spain. Actually I’m headed to Spain and Africa in one trip. I couldn’t be any more excited. I’m even more excited that I’ve heard from two of the schools before I actually go. I’ve had this recurring nightmare that I was going to get all my acceptance letters while I was in Spain. That would suck.

     It’s going to be a blast. There are 12 of us going in our group from the High School so we’ll probably be put with another group about our size.  We’re going to land in Madrid, travel south to the coast, visit Morocco Africa, and then travel up the east part of the country to Barcelona where we fly home from.  I’ve wanted to go back to a Spanish speaking country ever since I came back from living in Ecuador.

My wife has informed me that I suck at blogging. Why? She says that I don’t write the important stuff on my blog until about a week after it happens. Friday, Utah State emailed me and let me know that they have accepted me into their graduate program. Yeah for me! For those of you keeping track, that means two if the three schools I applied to have accepted me so far (Oklahoma State and Utah State). I’m still waiting to hear from BYU. They must be on Mormon Standard Time or something.

The scary thing is that Utah State mentioned letting them know by March 4th! That’s Tuesday! The way the email sounded was that if I know for sure then I should tell them so they can start looking at scholarships, but I need to call them and ask. It kind of freaked me out!

Now I guess I can put my house up for s ale. I was waiting until March 15th, or until I had two acceptance letters (hard to explain the logic there on a blog). However, now I have to choose where I want to go. That may sound simple, but believe you me it’s not! I’m about to pull a Rory Gilmore (I blame Catherine for that fact that I can use that line) and do a pros and cons list. What will I ever do if BYU accepts me as well! There are so many things each of the schools offer, it makes the decision really hard for me. Maybe Monday I’ll write the pros and cons list.