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Monday, 28 November 05 :: almost done.. with this one

in 24 hours everything will be gone from my control over this application to georgia. i've worked hard on the statement. so has my aunt. anyhow, earlier today i was feeling a lot of different things about this application.. but now its simple excitement, and near relief. hopefully by the end of the week i'll be done sending in transcript requests and letter of recommendation forms for utah state and university of washington.. and i'll just have one last thing to put together for my application to u of wa.. but really, my first choice is georgia. everyone knows it. they have a killer program and people i actually like as people. they have a lot to offer me, and i think i have something to offer them. at least i hope i do, please forgive as i'm not feeling very good about myself these days.

anyhow.. i actually have a shot at getting into georgia. they are one of the top 3 programs in the country, and aiming to be the top. they've told me this. for this kid who was told, in coming out of high school, that she would never succeed in college, having a shot at a top ph.d. program is a big deal. i really hope i get in, i'll be surprised if i don't, but exstatic if i do.

okay, bed time.

posted by brooke at November 28, 2005 11:54 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.