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mugen_edamamehahaha it's been a while hasn't it just.
I'm at the moment worrying over university selection. Getting into uni here for an undergraduate degree, it's an esoteric, mysterious process that involves approx. 700 times more paperwork than necessary. Things need translatin', they need to know how you did in highschool even if you've got an impressive track record of post-highschool but never quite past Uni like I do. The radioactive water spillage in Fukushima is getting worse, and while my first thought is for the poor depleted fish stocks and unsuspecting birds
my second one is that hey maybe this means less foreign students'll come over here and compete with me.
Did you guys here? A tornado ripped through Saitama, I think, which isn't AT ALL far from where my bum is at the moment. My teacher lives in Chiba, and he says the site was was only about thirty minutes from his house. Weather is totally out of whack, though they did say it was a freak tornado. Then again, I've been here a year and a half now, and there was a tornado warning last year too. Weather is amazing, man. Weather and geology, you could barely get more interesting than that.
coughanimalscough
Back to the issue. Currently I'm worried by how few universities I actually want to slash actually can apply for. For one thing, pure Biology isn't a big thing here. It's mostly Biochemistry, or Biotech, or other Bio-mutants. Where's the fun in that?! If I'm not knee deep in muck trying to catch a flying squirrel, I've gone wrong in my life. And for some of the others, the particular university's entrance exams are just.... going to be really hard. I'm loathe to say impossible, 'cos I reckon if you press down on yourself hard enough absolutely anybody could crap out a diamond. But this is my second time in this ridiculous ol' rodeo, and I'd like to think I'm not asking too much to want to have it a little easier and a lot happier.
My conundrum is this.
There's Toho Uni and Tokai Uni. Toho's really known only in Japan, and even then, it's not known that well to the layman, because it's all science, and biological slash medical stuff at that. But according to my teacher, they keep a well-good standard, and their website promised really amazing, really gallant things. Tokai's standards aren't on par, probably, because Tokai's got fingers in EVERYTHING (from maritime civilisation all the way to Finnish). Tokai's got by far and away the more interesting course, and because it's a giant of a university, yeah, they've also got ties with loads of overseas of universities (I'm always itching for foreign exchanging). So do I go for the (likely) better quality Biology degree, or for the degree that states I have to take part in
RELEASING DOLPHINS BRED IN CAPTIVITY TO THE WILD
I think you can tell where my heart's at, yeah, but I do worry about my future. After this, I want to be a researcher, or study s'more, or work for somebody to investigate the state of Life anywhere. You and me, we both know I got non-functioning knees, but you'll literally have to break them before I'll be satisfied with working indoors. Not at this point in my life, even though looking at the fresh-faced kiddies in my class I'm not sure I should be saying "this point in my life" like I'm young or something equally ridiculous.
OH OH
What a stroke of luck. One of my favouriter people from my ver ver brief experience the UK was suddenly online and available for a chat! She's a post-grad student doing biological wonders, and I posed my conundrum. And she said just go for the one that makes me happy.
Granted, this is probably not information that only a biologist could've given to me, but it's nice to hear from someone who's standing where I want to be standing after the thousand or so years it'll take me to graduate.
In other news,
I CAN DO STAIRS NOW. Mostly. Not too many, in moderation. And I can walk like it's no trouble at all, at all. Went home two weeks ago for a week to rustle up the school certificates I'd need for uni applications, got two booster shots in my knees, leaked away s'more of the family's financials. It's not like I'm even slightly bionic, despite the healthy chunk of funds poured into my patella. Then again, though, the absence of pain still takes by surprise with stunning regularity.
I GAINED WEIGHT and I've got skin break-outs and white hair popping out like my head's optimum for growing albino daisies. Considering the stress getting ready to try 'n get into uni in a foreign language, though, honestly, I think I could be doing worse, even if I look haggard-er than a leather coat someone's had for five generations.
I BOUGHT A POKEMON BECAUSE SELF RESTRAINT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE. Look, how damn darling is she.
I was gonna put my face in, but it's a right hot mess at the moment, so instead just say hello to Sylveon and goodbye to my self-respect.
And this wasn't from Disney Sea, it's from Disneyland, when we got to use the free tickets we won. It was in March, I think. HOW TIMELY AM I.
The joke's on me, because I've got big feet. Oh, wait. MY LIFE IS A JOKE.
In other news, I got to go to Disney Sea when my brother came to visit, and it's a marvelous place. And I've also finally gotten around to really, hideously enjoying karaoke. Turns it out it's got less to do with the karaoke room, and more to do with how much your musical tastes and lack of shame overlap with others. Also, the every marvelous![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ann_fish will be coming to Japan for a volunteering stint several months long, so I really really reckon I'll get to meet her! Y'know, I think my ratio of online friends I've actually gotten! the pleasure! to meet! is pretty damn good for someone not from the states meeting others from the states. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.
God, I've forgotten how downright cathartic verbal vomiting out a diary could be. Could this be the revival of a beautiful habit?!?!?1 Who the hell knows. Look at EF. Revivals are hard to plan!
Hope everyone's doing really well! c:
Edit:
Also holy crap I forgot to mention, that after being put on the waiting list forever, Nagoya turned me down. Justifiably, because I was terrible at the interview. What I find slightly less justifiable was how long it took, for them to say thanks ma'am but no thanks.
I'm at the moment worrying over university selection. Getting into uni here for an undergraduate degree, it's an esoteric, mysterious process that involves approx. 700 times more paperwork than necessary. Things need translatin', they need to know how you did in highschool even if you've got an impressive track record of post-highschool but never quite past Uni like I do. The radioactive water spillage in Fukushima is getting worse, and while my first thought is for the poor depleted fish stocks and unsuspecting birds
my second one is that hey maybe this means less foreign students'll come over here and compete with me.
Did you guys here? A tornado ripped through Saitama, I think, which isn't AT ALL far from where my bum is at the moment. My teacher lives in Chiba, and he says the site was was only about thirty minutes from his house. Weather is totally out of whack, though they did say it was a freak tornado. Then again, I've been here a year and a half now, and there was a tornado warning last year too. Weather is amazing, man. Weather and geology, you could barely get more interesting than that.
coughanimalscough
Back to the issue. Currently I'm worried by how few universities I actually want to slash actually can apply for. For one thing, pure Biology isn't a big thing here. It's mostly Biochemistry, or Biotech, or other Bio-mutants. Where's the fun in that?! If I'm not knee deep in muck trying to catch a flying squirrel, I've gone wrong in my life. And for some of the others, the particular university's entrance exams are just.... going to be really hard. I'm loathe to say impossible, 'cos I reckon if you press down on yourself hard enough absolutely anybody could crap out a diamond. But this is my second time in this ridiculous ol' rodeo, and I'd like to think I'm not asking too much to want to have it a little easier and a lot happier.
My conundrum is this.
There's Toho Uni and Tokai Uni. Toho's really known only in Japan, and even then, it's not known that well to the layman, because it's all science, and biological slash medical stuff at that. But according to my teacher, they keep a well-good standard, and their website promised really amazing, really gallant things. Tokai's standards aren't on par, probably, because Tokai's got fingers in EVERYTHING (from maritime civilisation all the way to Finnish). Tokai's got by far and away the more interesting course, and because it's a giant of a university, yeah, they've also got ties with loads of overseas of universities (I'm always itching for foreign exchanging). So do I go for the (likely) better quality Biology degree, or for the degree that states I have to take part in
RELEASING DOLPHINS BRED IN CAPTIVITY TO THE WILD
I think you can tell where my heart's at, yeah, but I do worry about my future. After this, I want to be a researcher, or study s'more, or work for somebody to investigate the state of Life anywhere. You and me, we both know I got non-functioning knees, but you'll literally have to break them before I'll be satisfied with working indoors. Not at this point in my life, even though looking at the fresh-faced kiddies in my class I'm not sure I should be saying "this point in my life" like I'm young or something equally ridiculous.
OH OH
What a stroke of luck. One of my favouriter people from my ver ver brief experience the UK was suddenly online and available for a chat! She's a post-grad student doing biological wonders, and I posed my conundrum. And she said just go for the one that makes me happy.
Granted, this is probably not information that only a biologist could've given to me, but it's nice to hear from someone who's standing where I want to be standing after the thousand or so years it'll take me to graduate.
In other news,
I CAN DO STAIRS NOW. Mostly. Not too many, in moderation. And I can walk like it's no trouble at all, at all. Went home two weeks ago for a week to rustle up the school certificates I'd need for uni applications, got two booster shots in my knees, leaked away s'more of the family's financials. It's not like I'm even slightly bionic, despite the healthy chunk of funds poured into my patella. Then again, though, the absence of pain still takes by surprise with stunning regularity.
I GAINED WEIGHT and I've got skin break-outs and white hair popping out like my head's optimum for growing albino daisies. Considering the stress getting ready to try 'n get into uni in a foreign language, though, honestly, I think I could be doing worse, even if I look haggard-er than a leather coat someone's had for five generations.
I BOUGHT A POKEMON BECAUSE SELF RESTRAINT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE. Look, how damn darling is she.
I was gonna put my face in, but it's a right hot mess at the moment, so instead just say hello to Sylveon and goodbye to my self-respect.
And this wasn't from Disney Sea, it's from Disneyland, when we got to use the free tickets we won. It was in March, I think. HOW TIMELY AM I.
The joke's on me, because I've got big feet. Oh, wait. MY LIFE IS A JOKE.In other news, I got to go to Disney Sea when my brother came to visit, and it's a marvelous place. And I've also finally gotten around to really, hideously enjoying karaoke. Turns it out it's got less to do with the karaoke room, and more to do with how much your musical tastes and lack of shame overlap with others. Also, the every marvelous
ann_fish will be coming to Japan for a volunteering stint several months long, so I really really reckon I'll get to meet her! Y'know, I think my ratio of online friends I've actually gotten! the pleasure! to meet! is pretty damn good for someone not from the states meeting others from the states. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.God, I've forgotten how downright cathartic verbal vomiting out a diary could be. Could this be the revival of a beautiful habit?!?!?1 Who the hell knows. Look at EF. Revivals are hard to plan!
Hope everyone's doing really well! c:
Edit:
Also holy crap I forgot to mention, that after being put on the waiting list forever, Nagoya turned me down. Justifiably, because I was terrible at the interview. What I find slightly less justifiable was how long it took, for them to say thanks ma'am but no thanks.