August 22, 2005
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Topic: kayaking and grad school
Now that I’ve begun to look beyond my current job, I’m able to see it for what it is. It’s an opportunity to build up some cash, while offering me pleanty of free-time to be on the internet and phone. Also…while I’m living at home, and feel I have given up a lot of independence and freedoms in the process, this is also an opportunity for me to get involved w/ things.
This weekend, I’m 85% going white water kayaking. The Kayaking and Canoe Club of New York has a wicked online forum, that has instantly hooked me up w/ kayakers in the area. It seems a group of about 8 experienced paddlers are heading up to the Deerfield River in NW Mass, near Vermont. One person has offered to lend me a great deal of gear for the weekend, another a ride, and yet another has organized the campsite. I’m just hoping to tag along, get in the water, and see if I don’t get my ass kicked. If all goes well…I’ve got my weekends planned for a good while.
As for grad school…looks like that’s gonna be a year away. I’ve contacted the University of Vermont, solely because I want to go to grad school in an outdoorsy college city, and they have the type of program I’m looking for, which is counseling, also called counseling psychology, or applied psychology. It’s a 2-year program. I don’t want to and shouldn’t need more schooling than that, but I’m still looking into it. I’ll probably try to come up w/ a bit longer list in the next couple of weeks, start thinking about GRE’s (most schools don’t require it for this), start looking into getting cash for these programs if possible. That should keep me busy and give me some goals.
Comments (3)
IT sounds like a fun weekend with some genuinely nice people! I finally decided what I am going to school for, but now I am looking into the Grad school programs around here to make sure this is the right thing. I definitely will get my Masters, and even want to get my Doctorate, but it depends on what is available. I really should have done all this before I had kids!
I thought about going into counseling a couple of years ago. It seemed natural to me because I had spent 9 years studying psychology. After a while, I gave up. I have enough personal issues already. No more
Two years of schooling — that sounds quick and hopefully relatively painless, and being in Vermont would be a nice plus.