Sunday, September 11, 2005
|Stay for the year?|I recently found out that there is a Columbia 4th year here at Reid Hall who is staying for the year. I could barely finish my tarte aux pommes avec crème Chantilly when I heard this.Can it be? Granted, there are huge issues with such a plan: 1) Having left stuff with people that I'd promised I'd be back in January to pick up, 2) Not being able to visit my future law school (although chances are I wouldn't be able to do that back in the states anyway, and it really only presents a problem if by some crazy miracle I got into more than one really great, top school and more than one offered me a lot of money to attend), 3) Swallowing money yet again on plane tickets since I don't think I can do anything to change their date now that I'm in France, although in that case I'd just take the opportunity to return to NYC for a week before school starts back up here, 4) Not being in NYC to find a job or a place to live for the summer, although I do not know that I wouldn't mind working for Housing again if push came to shove, and there is always Joan...Classes start in 8.5hrs. If, one month and 8.5hrs from now I feel that my French has significantly improved, enough to take all of my classes next term at the University, which would mean that I would be able to satisfy my concentration requirements, then I'm going to seriously consider it...Because that would be absolutely crazy. Plus, it seems silly to spend all of this time in France and return to the U.S. and not take a single French course. I've looked ahead and none of them seem appealing. If I can't take French courses, I might as well take courses in French, you know?And I think I could afford it, sorta, because I've budgeted myself now to return to NYC in January with the money I saved up this summer, and so if that works out right, then assuming Columbia can work the same Fin Aid magic for me (perhaps even better because as far as they know that money is being used up and I won't have been working the past half-year) then the cost should not present too much of a problem, save for not having scads of money to tool around Europe on my 3-week long Spring Break.GOD, WHAT AN IDEA.Comments would be appreciated.
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