Thursday, 11 September 2008

To a Point

I've been meaning to write for a while. I've thought about it while buying books, in the shower, right before I sleep. But in all these different activities, I haven't been able to stop myself to sit down and write. Maybe all I needed was a little inspiration.

A lot has happened since the last entry actually, and to sum it all up would be incredibly insufficient but for my own sanity (since it seems I like to document everything so much for fear of alzhiemer's when I'm older), I will try :)

Got early acceptance into Toronto and Western. Western had a scholarship, Toronto doesn't give money to Masters. Told Western "thank you" and am presently holding onto the Toronto offer. Oxford was a thin envelope and right now, while I'm becoming pretty excited about Toronto, I'm also hesitant as I wait for Cambridge to get back to me. Too many applications this year or something and so they're backlogged. There must be some reason why I'm talking in half sentences :)

To be honest, I'm not sure how I feel. Completely. My life has always been in Calgary, always been about Calgary and now, anything is possible. My parents keep talking about buying a place in Toronto if I go and then moving most of our family down there if that's where we (us kids) will be. But what about home? What about Calgary? Home is where your heart is and my family is so much a part of that. So why does the actual, physical place still feel like home?

There's a part of me that wonders about Cambridge though and then another part that's skeptical and knows that it's nearly impossible to get in. A part of me wants a final answer so I know where I'll be next year and a part of that answer just wants it to be the "safe" answer (which it most likely will be) so that I can start preparing to move down to Toronto. I had a chance to talk to a bunch of PhD students in my seminar the other day. It was so good of them to talk to me :) A lot of them are from the East and they were just talking about how much there is to do there - things like the boardwalk, the four seasons, the jazz festival (which I heard is only second to the one in Montreal). My supervisor's mentor and good friend is the Graduate Director in Toronto and they have the best Miltonist in the country. What more could I ask for? What more do I want?

1 comment:

novice said...

AUTHOR: Jack
DATE: 04/01/2005 12:57:09 AM

Congratulations Tru!!!!!

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