I saw my advisor today. She was kind enough to spend over 45 minutes with me. She suggested I drop one of my classes. I dropped Ethnography of American Indians. I am going to extend my time until I graduate to May 2011. This sucks. She told me that because of my past GPA (prior UCF), I will not be able to get into a "top" graduate school. She really told me how it is straight up. My UCF GPA is about as high as it can be at this time. The overall one is the one she was speaking of.
We discussed getting into public service straight out of school and see if the US government will pay for me to do grad school while I am working. I think that is the way it will be. I really am not keen on living in Washington D.C due to the weather and high expense. I guess I would live in Baltimore or something. This is not the design for my life that I imagined. I want to live in a warmer climate. I guess I could take a position abroad but grad school may be further away.
I am very frustrated with myself and my past choices. I want to just crawl in a hole.
anthrogeek10
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That sounds like a very good plan. Most people don't actually live in DC anyway--head south,live in Virginia; there are many nearby towns with commuter access to Washington. Getting the government to pay for grad school would be great, and there are excellent schools in the DC area where you can continue to improve your GPA before going back full-time or major part-time. The past was probably a learning experience in a different way and brought you to where you are.
Your probably right. Now, I just need to land that elusive U.S State Dept internship. lol
At least I am not repeating the same mistakes from the past.
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