And now we wait...

My grad school apps have all been mailed out!!!!!

Such an awesome day! Woke up super pumped. Went to an insane step class, then came home and finished my applications, then did a minuscule amount of work, then drove around with my music blasting and windows open, bought some lip gloss, mailed my apps, had a celebratory slurpee and did some power yoga!!!!!!

Also, I decided for Ben Gurion I would make second a third choice. Choice two was nonprofit management- don't worry, I am not going all altruistic on ya. I figure the corporate world is falling apart so why not study nonprofit management and see if I could take some lessons on sustainability, socially responsibility and doing more with less to the corporate world. Choice three was conflict resolution- I feel like that is just something good to know whatever field you go into.

On another note, I am so bored with graphic design. So ready to be done with this silly logo for corp ID!!!! I mean I love the idea of creating a brand manual but I am so over the whole thumbnail thing! So happy whatever I learn next year will be different. At least for workshop I am doing something industrial design related.

I had a dream...

Not a good dream mind you. More of a nightmare. Remember that paranoia I was talking about a few posts back? About how something was going to go wrong and I would never make aliyah? Well as the days go by and hurdles are cleared there is less and less that could go wrong and so consciously I am getting less and less paranoid.
Apparently, my sub-conscious has yet to catch up with the rest of my mind. Here goes...

I had made it onto the plane! I was making aliyah! Matt was there too, obviously. Everything was going swimmingly! Until the plane started to spiral out of control. The pilot managed to safely land the plane on some main street in a small Western European country- like Belgium or Holland. The passengers were all ok. And that's all I remember. All things considered, not such a bad dream. No one got hurt...

But maybe this dream is more of a metaphor than a prophecy (not that I think my dreams are prophecies). Maybe it isn't telling a story of what is to come, but rather what has happened. How I once tried and failed and now I have to get up and try again. Only this time I am halfway there! Maybe my sub-conscious is more optimistic than I initially thought. Hmmmmmmmm.....

I have a date!

July 13th. Which is kinda weird, because I am making aliyah on the same flight my brother and his friends are taking to get to Israel for Mach Hach. Which means extra bags! But it also means if I cry I will have like 10 people who will never let me live it down. Tears of joy- obviously. Well maybe not. Maybe terror. That is if I go not knowing if I have a home or a spot in a masters program. Oh so much to contemplate! Then there is the airport scene- that's gonna be a strange one. Good thing Ori doesn't mind being ignore.

Only 3.5 months! 105 days! (man that sounds like a long time... 3.5 months it is!)

3.5 months

Apparently I have a date. Apparently it is 3.5 months away. I would like confirmation though... Then I would like to know how to program a countdown on my blog. Can you even do that on blogger?

Speaking of programming, I really need to get my act together with this portfolio site now that my portfolio book is done.

Speaking of portfolio being done, I really need to send in my final two apps.

And then, I wait...

1 Down 3 to Go...

Technion application is in the mail!

(no I am not applying to med school. They have industrial design there...)

Scary!

There are few things scarier than seeing 25 identical passport photos of yourself. That being said paying for 25 copies of passport photos is pretty scary too. Yay for photo paper! I could turn this into a business... 25 counterfeit passport pictures for the low, low, price of...

The Dreaded Portfolio is done!

Finally, finally, finally! I finished my portfolio. Admittedly the hardest part was starting. Once I got my act together and came up with a basic page layout it was quite easy (albeit time consuming), but it is finished and off being printed by Lulu.com. I am happy, relieved, calm and dreading the website redesign a little less. If I could do this I can do that.

Hopefully my Technion application will be mailed tomorrow and Ben Gurion on Friday. Bezalel I still have to wait till my printed portfolio is delivered but I am getting somewhere.

The question now is just which of these schools (if any) will want me...


(The above image is from my portfolio cover and is characteristic of the style of the entire portfolio.)

Scrap Booking

Listening to a friend's thesis proposal presentation I had an interesting thought, a bureaucracy scrapbook. Keeping every form and application I had to fill in bound in a nice little book. It could make a funky kind of keepsake. Of course half the forms I have filled out I no longer have. Maybe I will suggest it to the next person who makes aliyah.
Speaking of forms, I wonder what kind of carbon footprint this whole process has? I mean NBN has online applications now which is great, but bureaucracy in general should go paperless. Sustainability has become such a trend in the corporate world and while governments preach sustainability do they really practice it? Just a thought.

Quirks

I eat hamburgers upside down. People tend to think it is strange but it comes completely naturally to me. I am not sure what this has to do with aliyah, oh yea, nothing, but I just felt like writing it. For some reason I have been thinking about this a lot.

Complacent

My portfolio is half done, my statements of intent written, my fall grades in and my transcripts starting to arrive in the mail. More important than any of this though is the fact that everything is starting to feel real. I no longer feel that impending sense of dread that I am going t be stuck in Canada forever. I mean I don't want to jinx myself or anything, but I am in a good place.

More Lasts

I changed my clock for the last time here. At least next year when my clock goes back into winter mode I won't be facing a Canadian winter. I may not even have to face winter at all- I mean Beer Sheva's idea of winter isn't winter.

Other than that the weekend wasn't good. It will get better though. In four months.

I feel like it's the last four days of camp or Mach Hach. You go through the summer, sleep as much as you can, chill out, just enjoy. Then it gets down to be less than a week and you realize you have so little time left and everything is accelerated. You are enjoying things, but you are so tired. In a way all you want to do is get home and sleep for a week. I feel like I am going to be insanely tired these next few months. I am ready to just make aliyah and sleep for a week- which probably won't happen.

Happy

I have finally started my last semester of undergrad. I am finally in my last month of my last real winter. And I finally have my last grad school application in my possession.
Friday I hand in my book and the second I get my fall marks the applications go in the mail. Things are moving... and so am I!

Kickstart my Heart

Actually, more like kickstart this whole application process, but I have begun to introduce a little more glam metal into my life so I figured a Mötley Crüe reference was appropriate.

All silliness aside I have finally started to get my act together. Now that I have survived my last real February (after surviving many Canadian Februarys, an Israeli February is more like an early March or April), I have finally written my statements of intent to accompany my grad school applications. I plan on getting them out to my refer-ers by the end of today. I am on my way!