Went to write a post on Open Diary for the first time in several months because I finally felt like I had something to write about and it turns out it was shut down about three months ago. I'm a little miffed about that, seeing as it had about 200 entries spanning across the last years of high school, my first year of college and my Mother dying but maybe it's for the best since that was all really low points in my life. Still would have been nice to get an email so I could back it up.
So today I delved super deep into looking for a four year college. I've been trying to work with my Community college for about four years, but I kept dropping out because of stress and whatnot after Mom died. But, I feel like I'm finally in a good enough place that in a year I'll be in an even better place and ready to go on to my four year college. I was freaking out a lot because my GPA was low due to an entire semester of W level grades after I dropped out when Mom died and I was worried that I wasn't going to be able to get into a college at all. Then I looked up how many colleges in the US have Animal Science or Zoology degrees and 112 were under $20,000 a year. With new found confidence that they couldn't ALL reject me (could they?) and decided to narrow down a list.
My criteria for finding a perfect college for me was a college that had BOTH an Animal Science and a Zoology/Animal Biology major, the ability to double major, under $20,000 in tuition, had Korean language classes and had an okay Acceptance Rate. I found my top three colleges (well, there were only three that had all of those)
Utah State University - All 3 Courses, 98% Acceptance, $17,000 in Fees Alberta University - All 3 Courses, ?% Acceptance, $5,000 in Fees Minnesota University - All 3 Courses, 44% Acceptance, $18,000 in Fees
I'm still going to look for other schools that have at least one of my majors and Korean Language classes but these were the only schools that had everything I wanted. Utah State is what I'm going to be aiming for as of right now.
I then started looking at how much apartments in Utah cost. I would ideally like to be in my own place during college only because I would really like to have a pet (a dog and a few others such as a Turtle and some fish) if I'm going to be moving all the way across the country on my own. Turns out that there aren't that many cheap apartments in Logan, UT (in fact, there is only one less than $600 a month) they're all in Salt Lake which is a little over an hour from Campus so if I had too I could commute on a bus or train (if they have them, no idea if they do) up to campus everyday and read my textbooks during the drive. And if worse comes to worse and I can't get the apartment by campus I was looking at ($600 for a single room, close to the campus but don't know if utilities are included in the price) I guess I could live on campus. It's super cheap ($1,600 a semester not including the meal plan for a single room) but the big draw back is regulations that include no pets.
In summation the current 10 year plan that I have put together goes as follows:
Stay at my community college for one more year. Go back and retake the classes I got W/F grades in a few years back to up my GPA. There aren't any online courses that I can take (apart from Animal Biology possibly in Spring) that will help me in my degree and I currently can't go to campus for classes due to my grandmother constantly having to drive her parents places.
Apply to Utah, Alberta U and Minnesota U (and maybe a few other places once I get a longer list of secondary possibilities) during Winter Break and pray that my work was enough to get me into one of my top three choices.
Find a Corgi puppy in a shelter or for sale between New York and Utah that I can pick up during the road trip if I can't find one here to potty train before I move. Move out to Utah (or another school if I don't get into Utah) in an apartment.
Complete a double major in Animal Sciences and Animal Biology with extensive Korean Language classes for my electives to impress Veterinary schools.
Apply to Cornell and look for Veterinary Colleges in Europe to attend (I would really like to study abroad for Graduate school). Get into Veterinary school and complete it.
If I haven't already, move out to Korea or somewhere in Europe (England or Scotland preferably) and get a job as a Veterinarian.
Buy a small ranch style home after saving up for a few years. Get a menagerie of various animals and live life good on a $100,000+ salary.
That's the plan anyway. It feels nice to have a plan that feels like it might actually work this time (at least the first four years of the plan, it's the only part I actually put any research into) because I've done this whole 10 year plan at least 10 times in my life and something always road bumps it. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I had relied on other people a lot of housing situations and I've somehow managed to find 4 different roommates who have changed their minds at the last second.
We'll see how it goes.
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