Becoming a Crystallographer

This is the blog of a future crystallographer, not that crystallography is the main area of discussion. I'll maybe mention it once in a while, while writing about my life and other things.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

More of the future

Today at lunch I was walking form the cafeteria with my boss and we were talking about stuff. Like how I still have 6 months of student money from the government and what I have to do before I graduate and stuff. Then she was like "have you applied for a summer job?". I was like "oh yeah, I'd have to apply like now". Then I was like "oh wait, I really maybe should or then again no... what if I graduate before the summer and what if I don't..?" The problem is that I have really not looked in to the future beyond coming back to Finland and finishing my studies. Maybe I should. It does seem like a smart idea. I still have the 6 months of student money so I can live till September even if I don't graduate before that. I really don't want to leave Jyväskylä for the summer since it is really an truly the last chance I have of spending my summer there unless of course a miracle happens and there is an interesting job there for me or I suddenly have the urge to do a doctorate. So I am coming to the conclusion that I shall again "spend my summer in Jyväskylä studying". Quotation marks since that is exactly what I was supposed to do last summer. I will finally be in Jyväskylä for the Rally and get to bum drinks off foreign and Finnish drunk men as well as participating in the thing against the Rally. I shall swim in a lake and rent the row boat (Kellukka) that I have wanted to try out for the past 5 years. And if all else fails I will rent myself off as cheap labor to some strawberry farm or something.

Oh I don't know if this seems like a good idea at all but if it is what I want to do then it is what I shall do. Besides I am way too lazy to start looking for an actual job and writing applications and such. I'd actually have to get a job that I could perhaps keep after graduating or so. That is just way too much to think about. I just want to spend time with my fish and frogs. (If I get them back since today both the care-takers said they might want to keep them.)

If I spend too much time thinking about the future I might not notice that I actually have loads to do right now. And I do. Not that I am not in a sort of care-free mood all the time. I think that will have to change before I am finished here.

Oh but I must hurry home again. I have to go to the store to get like food before German class. I just have no time to go to the store any more. I think I have written about it. Though the situation is now worse since I go climbing on Wednesdays.

It is like the Finnish independence day tomorrow (the sixth). I don't know what to do about it.

3 Comments:

  • At 7/12/06 08:11, Blogger elina said…

    Sounds like a plan. I think you should just do it. If you run out of money just get more student loan. That is, you'll finally have a summer vacation. I'd have liked to do that sometime, but could not afford it.
    And I'm sure you'll just get a great job by accident like I did. Things just seem to work out for us. I mean no point in planning how to be happy in the future because I'm sure you have the talent of making yourself happy, whatever the situation. And some lovely person will just call you up and offer you a job. (That is, I still think applying is a good idea)
    Feeling all happy with having had a day off in the middle of the week...

     
  • At 8/12/06 09:36, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Summer vacation? No clue to what that is, since the last one of those for me was after my 15th birthday. Guess I've been too greedy with cash ;)

    BUT to my suprise I might have one next summer...and a paid one at that. Sounds almost unreal. ;)

    To the point, sounds like you're in the 'zone' of finishing studies and starting worklife and you just might be one of those lucky ones that can have a few months off during this transition. Go for it! :)

    I'm quite sure someone as smart as you are will have no problems finding work when you're ready for it. ;)

     
  • At 8/12/06 19:36, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Can I join you in your plan and add to the financing part of it? Sounds great!

     

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