Quick Update

I realized last night when I made a new post that I hadn’t written on my blog in a ridiculously long time, so here’s the highlights from last year:

I graduated from college with a BA in Math and a minor in English. Yay!

I discovered I can’t do much with said degree except teach math at a high school or something.

I watched the movie Post-Grad and related to it entirely too much.

I panicked over my lack of plans for the future and ended up in math grad school because I know I’m good at the whole school thing (I mean, I graduated after all).

I discovered that grad school is the perfect place to kill my love of math and of learning.

I discovered that I like teaching math. I work as a TA at the university to pay for grad school.

I discovered that I hate grad school.

I haven’t made myself quit yet. Should I stay and finish since I’ve already almost completed a year of the torture (not to mention paid for the year of torture)? Should I leave? Should I stay or should I go now?! Good song, very applicable to life.

I still tutor math and English.

I do some accounting for a database and web design business.

I still work at an engineering firm doing drafting and whatever I want when there isn’t work for me to do.

I play piano way more since grad school started, primarily because it reminds me that I am in fact good at something. I’m not a prodigy, and I don’t like playing in front of tons of people, but it’s still fun.

I moved out of my parents’ house and live in an apartment across town.

I dream of all the things I could be doing instead of grad school.

None of the things I dream of involve math since I loathe math grad school.

I consider quitting grad school about every 12 seconds or so.

One would wonder why I don’t just quit. I’ll tell you why.

Because if I quit, future thirty year old Ashley might say to herself, “Ashley, why didn’t you just hang in there and finish?” The only thing I hate worse than The Dungeon (that’s what I affectionately call the math building at school) is the idea that The Dungeon could squash my dreams and fill my future self with regret. Silly, I know, but there you have it.

So if I write on here much this year, I can guarantee the following:

My posts will be random.
My posts will be about everything but math...well, I think they will be anyway.
My posts may contain rants or countless tales of a confused post-grad in grad school.

The good news is:
I make it my goal to find a reason to be thankful every day. There are plenty of reasons. Perhaps I will inform you of them on this here blog.

Reason #1: I know God has a plan for my life, even if I’m not too sure what it is yet.

The sun will come up tomorrow. As Anne of Green Gables once said, "Isn't it nice that tomorrow is a brand new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

That’s all for now. Have a splendid day. Thanks for reading this, whoever you are.