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Visited the University of WA today.
I decided to do the group tour with my school, because that would make me go. I tend to "get busy" and not make time for such important things.
I learned that I've been misinformed on a variety of fronts:
- On the positive side, UW has pledged 30% of their incoming transfer slots to community college students. Woo-hoo!
- The academic world is flooded with college-level teachers right now, and the tenure track is being replaced with "temp" teachers who are without benefits, work part-time and often divide their teaching between several colleges. There is a demand for secondary education, but I will not teach children, mainly because they irritate me at best, and walk all over me at worst. My reasons for school are various, but one of these is a lifestyle change: I want out of the standard workweek/two weeks vacation. I'd rather work harder 9 months of the year and then spend the summer writing/doing retreat/translating. That I happen to gravitate towards/love teaching/have experience teaching is a real plus.
- It seems the requirements for my school's AA degree is four classes short of the general distribution requirements for UW.
- I have to send my high school files back to my school, and have them at least send my school transcript in a sealed envelope. Previously I was told to just bring them in. ( This is not good for me, because my little private high school doesn't exist any more. )
That notwithstanding, I'm writing my personal statements, and in order to do that I have to narrow down my major/minor.
( I have three directions I could take. )
*much head-scratching here at Icarus central*
I decided to do the group tour with my school, because that would make me go. I tend to "get busy" and not make time for such important things.
I learned that I've been misinformed on a variety of fronts:
- On the positive side, UW has pledged 30% of their incoming transfer slots to community college students. Woo-hoo!
- The academic world is flooded with college-level teachers right now, and the tenure track is being replaced with "temp" teachers who are without benefits, work part-time and often divide their teaching between several colleges. There is a demand for secondary education, but I will not teach children, mainly because they irritate me at best, and walk all over me at worst. My reasons for school are various, but one of these is a lifestyle change: I want out of the standard workweek/two weeks vacation. I'd rather work harder 9 months of the year and then spend the summer writing/doing retreat/translating. That I happen to gravitate towards/love teaching/have experience teaching is a real plus.
- It seems the requirements for my school's AA degree is four classes short of the general distribution requirements for UW.
- I have to send my high school files back to my school, and have them at least send my school transcript in a sealed envelope. Previously I was told to just bring them in. ( This is not good for me, because my little private high school doesn't exist any more. )
That notwithstanding, I'm writing my personal statements, and in order to do that I have to narrow down my major/minor.
( I have three directions I could take. )
*much head-scratching here at Icarus central*