So, I have some pretty big news…..

I found out last Sunday that I got accepted to my top choice internship/graduate program. I’m SO excited!! There are tons of “pros” that go along with this, aside from the fact that I obviously love the program itself (otherwise it wouldn’t be my top choice, right? Right.)

It’s not too far from where I go to school now. Which is great because it means I can get a storage space here, and not have to haul everything I own across the country this summer, just to do it again next Fall. Although I’m even sure that’d be possible, the car would probably refuse to move.  This also means that I can visit for football weekends, roommate reunions, etc.!

I’ll still be on the East coast, which I’m strangely excited about. I thought as soon as I was finished with school I’d be right back in that warm desert sunshine that I know and love. I thought I’d be over this whole really-cold-winters and short-lived-warm-season thing that they’ve got going over here. I thought I’d need to be closer to my family. That would be wonderful, but I’m surviving.  This will give me a chance to explore some of the cities that I haven’t seen yet, and revisit the ones I haven’t seen enough of. Who lives on the East coast for four years and never goes to see NYC around Christmas time??!?! Oh, me. Let’s fix that. And see a Broadway show while we’re at it.

I know one other girl from my school that is going there too. There are eight interns total, so the odds of “knowing” somebody was slim.  Nutrition isn’t really a huge major, so we’ve had a lot of classes together in the last three years.  We aren’t really “friends”, yet, but it will be SO nice to have a familiar face around.

So, I only have one issue. Where should I live? The town I go to school in now is super small, a little “University Bubble,” if you will. It’s not necessarily a city, and is completely centered around the school. Most of the apartment complexes are close to campus, and house “students” only. Basically, I’ve never really had to think too hard about the whole living situation. I did the dorm thing for two years, and I’ve been in the same apartment for two years.

Now that I know where I’ll be next year, I have to figure out how to actually be there.  This has consisted of constant searches on sites like apartmentguide.com, realtor.com, Craig’s list…..you see where I’m going. In addition to that, I’ll be extremely close to (if not IN) a big city. I’ll spend a lot of time with public transportation, and interstates, and carpools.  Not the campus bus, or leisure walk to class that I’ve gotten so used to. Hello, real world.

I’ve been in contact with another intern so we are trying to find something together, which helps. This is one of those things that we’ll figure out the hard way, look back on, and think: Wow, that could have been SO much easier. Alas, that’s how you learn.

And my life after college begins….

Posted by Claudia Allen at 04/29/2008 09:45:45 AM |