Oh Man....

Okay so I have to give a very quick update on what's been going on. Things are on schedule as usual here at NASA. I'm doing my job and getting paid for it, which is pretty good. I have about 2,000 saved up now and I'm steadily heading for the goal by the time the summer is done. As far as work, it's good and I think I'm doing a pretty good job for Dewayne and the crew, and they seem to like me well enough. The interesting thing is, I set up an appointment with Mark Hess the other day, (Dewayne's boss and the Chief of the PAO department) to ask him about the co-op program that they have at Goddard, but before I went, Dewayne stopped me and told me that apparently a lot of people are asking him about whether or not I'm anti-NASA because I tend to question what they're doing and for why. I told Dewayne that I'm not a follower of blind faith and that I like to understand where and why I'm doing something before I do it. For example he was talking about in response to the point that I said that "I didn't understand why NASA was wasting so much money on the James Web Space Telescope," which is true because they're spending a ridiculous like 45 billion on it, but they don't seem to have enough money to hire more people or pay their interns the proper amount, and they had to cut a lot of useful programs that they already had. So yeah....I went ahead to the meeting anyway. I went there and we chatted and he told me basically that I'd have to go under the co-op program in order to get a chance to work at Goddard since the turn-over rate for jobs there is like only every three to four years. But after that meeting I asked about whether or not I could transfer to other NASA centers after getting into the program because quite frankly I don't wanna be in DC. But he doesn't seem to know. So after all of that, I left feeling a little bit overwhelmed.

Fourth of July was uneventful except for the fact that I picked up Ninja Gaiden Sigma, Final Fantasy, and Rainbow Six: Vegas so that was cool. I celebrated independence by chopping fools into ribbons! LOL. So yeah. The main part of this blog I wanted to address is the concept was that I spoke with Christoph again this evening (which is always a great pleasure) and he informed me of a rather disturbing fact that I had completely forgot about. The GRE. From what I understand, it's quite frightening. Much worse than the SAT, which was bad for me. So....hmm.... I'm looking at those questions, and like DAMN. But anyway, I'm gonna have to seriously consider that. Like SERIOUSLY. One of those questions were crazy. The thing is, all the answers to the questions sound very, very similiar. There's only very subtle differences in the way the answers are formed. So that's gonna require some very intense studying. But....on the other hand...

I looked at my schedule for the Fall, and that shit is gonna be the bomb!!!! I have 1 class on Monday, none on Tuesday, 2 classes on Wednesday (Harlem Renaissance, Shakespeare), 3 on Thursday (Advanced Grammar, Writing Fiction, Writing Poetry II), and 1 on Friday, so it seems like almost a four day weekend. But yeah...I'm gonna have to look at this....