Life
Random for the most part
Neglect Abound
I said I wouldn’t neglect this blog when I got to D.C. and that I was going to turn its purpose into blogging about my time here….but right now I’m extremely stressed about internship issues and I will have to put this thing off until I find something. I will say that the one thing [...]
Your Top 2 Languages
As I’ve mentioned before (or hinted at before), I will be attending next semester’s Graduate Gateway Program at American University and will be focusing primarily on Global Business and Trade. Toward the end of my time in college, I took two classes on emerging nations — Latin America and Africa. These (and a few others) [...]
Third Time’s a Charm? Updates
So I gave up on the job thing and have been admitted to the American University Washington Semester Program. I’m going to accept pending the Graduate Gateway program (the former is more undergrad based, but I still qualify for it). It will give me the option to take classes in something that interests me and [...]
Owning a House is Hard
For the past 2 days I’ve been living alone while my parents take my brother to move in at Virginia Tech. It’s made me realize that my dream of owning a nice home similar to the one I grew up to may never happen until I finally find someone dumb enough to trick into marriage: [...]
A Frustrating Process and Revelations of the Work Force
Lately the job hunting process has become far more frustrating, disheartening and depressing. On Friday I received an automated email from the first company (agency) I interviewed with saying I had been disqualified for not having the requirements necessary (specifically my GPA). It represents a fundamental flaw in the governmental hiring process though. The application [...]
First Interview
Just had my first job interview….period…of my life. Well for jobs that don’t involve asking if that’ll be all and then hitting a button on a cash register. I felt as if it went well but could’ve been much better. Overall I can at least take from it a set of things to expect in future [...]
April 16, 2010
It’s hard to believe that it’s been three years already. I’m currently typing this in my basement at home in Atlanta, 425+ miles from the room of Vawter Hall where I sat up in my bunk bed to a phone call at around 10:20 am. The call was from my mom and she was, surprisingly, [...]