Trying To Get It Right, For Once
I'm changing schools again. I just couldn't handle the online schooling option. It was far too isolating. I need to talk to the other students, and hear the teacher. I need to get the fuck out of this house. And I need normal homework, and regular tests, and actual textbooks (I fucking hate eBooks right now). Basically, online school was the worst possible thing for me to try. When I wasn't going to Guild every Friday night, I went mad. This did the same thing. Last night, I was thinking somewhat suicidal thoughts, which was the biiiiiig indication that something was horribly wrong. The stress was just way too much. So, I'm going to try going to a real school.
I found this place in Lima (20 miles from my house). It's called Rhodes State College, and they have a two year degree to be an x-ray tech. I also decided that, if I couldn't handle the stress of online school, how the hell am I going to handle everybody else's stress? It just wouldn't work.
While it's not a degree in psychology, or English, or any of those other degrees that I thought would be fun, it will be interesting, and I'll be able to find a job much easier. I'm good with people, and I don't mind paperwork, and I like working with complicated machines that I actually understand. It'll be a TON less stressful, and it'll pay more than a mcjob. And hopefully, it won't drive me to the hospital, like a lot of my other jobs have. But then again, as I said, much less stressful. Yay.
So, yeah. I withdrew from Kaplan earlier today, and I have a campus tour scheduled for Rhodes in a little over two weeks from now. It'd be nice to have a real social life again. I mean, I know I go to WSU every Friday, and I know I occasionally hang with my lake crew, but I need socialization that isn't gaming, you know? Randomly going to a movie, or mallratting for the hell of it. Texts asking about next week's test, or just how I'm doing. Waving hi in the halls, maybe even a party or two. It'd be nice. The fact that I'm starting to tear up just thinking about it probably means that I needed it more than I thought.
Life is an adventure, and I learn everything by making the same mistakes over and over again. Here's hoping the third time's the charm. ^_^
I found this place in Lima (20 miles from my house). It's called Rhodes State College, and they have a two year degree to be an x-ray tech. I also decided that, if I couldn't handle the stress of online school, how the hell am I going to handle everybody else's stress? It just wouldn't work.
While it's not a degree in psychology, or English, or any of those other degrees that I thought would be fun, it will be interesting, and I'll be able to find a job much easier. I'm good with people, and I don't mind paperwork, and I like working with complicated machines that I actually understand. It'll be a TON less stressful, and it'll pay more than a mcjob. And hopefully, it won't drive me to the hospital, like a lot of my other jobs have. But then again, as I said, much less stressful. Yay.
So, yeah. I withdrew from Kaplan earlier today, and I have a campus tour scheduled for Rhodes in a little over two weeks from now. It'd be nice to have a real social life again. I mean, I know I go to WSU every Friday, and I know I occasionally hang with my lake crew, but I need socialization that isn't gaming, you know? Randomly going to a movie, or mallratting for the hell of it. Texts asking about next week's test, or just how I'm doing. Waving hi in the halls, maybe even a party or two. It'd be nice. The fact that I'm starting to tear up just thinking about it probably means that I needed it more than I thought.
Life is an adventure, and I learn everything by making the same mistakes over and over again. Here's hoping the third time's the charm. ^_^