I Have Found My Tribe!!
Nov. 6th, 2005 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinema_babeI was going to write about being Roman Catholic. I was thinking about writing about the angst of being 'an estranged wife'. I was going to write about how tired I've been and how one of the things that sucks about being a cancer survivor is that the pains and fatigue that you never gave a thought to before, set off little bells now.
But I'm not going to write about any of that shit. Nope. I have found my people and I'm going to talk about that.
I went to an open house at Drexel University on Saturday for the grad programs in their Info Sciences School. Talk about a freaking EUREKA moment! I'm babbling to these people about what I'd like to study and where my academic passions lie and their eyes lit up just like mine do. There are people who share my intellectual DNA and any doubt I had about going to graduate school is gone.
As important as the academic program, for me at least, is the 'homefeel' of the place. Do I feel like an outsider? Right now emotionally I can't really handle feeling any more alienated then I am right now. When I began talking social informatics with the professors and grad students at the open house I felt like a missing part of me had been snapped into place. I haven't felt so good in a long time.
Tomorrow (Monday) night, Rutgers is having their open house for their MCIS (Masters in Communication and Information Sciences) program. This is the one that's my first choice and I have a ton of questions for them. (Drexel is my second choice school, Rochester Institute of Technology is #3. The on-line Educational Technology programs at Boise State University and San Diego State are my #4 and 5 respectively.)
A good friend of mine once said (and this isn't nearly as cruel as it sounds if taken in context) "if you had only been encouraged, you would have owned the world today." I've been feeling that way since I was 30 or so. I might not get to be everything I could have been but I'm still going to be a hell of creation.
Now if I can just figure our how to pay for it all, lol.
But I'm not going to write about any of that shit. Nope. I have found my people and I'm going to talk about that.
I went to an open house at Drexel University on Saturday for the grad programs in their Info Sciences School. Talk about a freaking EUREKA moment! I'm babbling to these people about what I'd like to study and where my academic passions lie and their eyes lit up just like mine do. There are people who share my intellectual DNA and any doubt I had about going to graduate school is gone.
As important as the academic program, for me at least, is the 'homefeel' of the place. Do I feel like an outsider? Right now emotionally I can't really handle feeling any more alienated then I am right now. When I began talking social informatics with the professors and grad students at the open house I felt like a missing part of me had been snapped into place. I haven't felt so good in a long time.
Tomorrow (Monday) night, Rutgers is having their open house for their MCIS (Masters in Communication and Information Sciences) program. This is the one that's my first choice and I have a ton of questions for them. (Drexel is my second choice school, Rochester Institute of Technology is #3. The on-line Educational Technology programs at Boise State University and San Diego State are my #4 and 5 respectively.)
A good friend of mine once said (and this isn't nearly as cruel as it sounds if taken in context) "if you had only been encouraged, you would have owned the world today." I've been feeling that way since I was 30 or so. I might not get to be everything I could have been but I'm still going to be a hell of creation.
Now if I can just figure our how to pay for it all, lol.
