August 30, 2005
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Got a ton of info about Antioch’s grad program in counseling psychology. Great program, one of the best in the world. You know why? It’s 90% hands on learning! Take that other schools, can’t learn that in a classroom.
Program is 2 1/2 years if I start this Jan., you intern for 25hrs. a week, and have 1-day a week where you’re on campus in NH, reflecting and discussing the internship, and learning other relevant things for the profession. Sounds perfect…I think pulling in a scholarship will be important though. It’s nearly $7,000 a semester, which is cheap compared to the money pissed away on my undergrad, but still, it’s a lot of money. And…while it’s almost easeir to justify spending a lot of money to sit in a classroom, it somehow seems harder to be spending money to be doing an internship, something that you normally do for free or get paid to do. Again…the important question, besides credits, what am I paying for? One-day a week of contact with the school.
When you think about what $7,000 can afford you in material things. We’re talking a plane ticket anywhere and the world, food, shelter, tons of booze and amazing memories, w/ money to spare. Here…you’re paying to partake in learning a profession.
So…right now that is one option.
But…while I’ve spent the past, hmmm…lifetime brooding over the future, I’m slowly regaining a sense of the now. I’m looking to head out ww kayaking again this weekend, just started a sweet book by Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity, which begins w/ a guy named Will and his friend Hand trying to organize a 1-week round the world trip. Not quite sure why yet…but it was funny listening into their conversations. “Shit…we need a visa for Qatar, ok, fuck that, let’s go to Madagascar, wait, no flights from Madagascar to Greendland, let’s to to Ghana then.”
Last night after work, went straight to a local bar, famous for good beer and 10cent wings on Mon. Through down 20 wings, which is a lot for me, a couple pints of Saranac Pale Ale, was feeling nice. Walked barefoot through my suburban town to my friend’s, watched a bit of Easy Rider, a movie about two guys from the ’60′s riding motorcycles from LA to Mardis Gras, doing a shitload of drugs along the way, and listening to a great movie soundtrack.
Heading out to Shea tonight to watch Seo pitch a crucial 3-game series against the Phillies. A win tonight, and we pull w/in 1/2 a game of the wild card, with Pedro on the hill tom. night.
