Sigh.

Okay.

Here we go again.

Last week I met with Victoria and she told me that due to my grad academic standing/undergrad GPA/publications, I’m 90% guaranteed to get funding for the PhD program up here (which is apparently pretty rockin’ odds). Still though, there’s a chance I won’t get funding, especially if the amount of total funding for the department continues to decrease. So it’s common for advisors to encourage their students to apply to other PhD programs, just in case.

Herein lies yet another “oh crap, I have to make an academic decision, whatever should I do?” moment. So common in my life, eh?

www.philosophicalgourmet.com has UBC ranked for their Philosophy of Science PhD program, which is something I’m really into. I’m pretty sure I could get into it, as GRE scores are not required and I think I have all the classes required to skip the MA. The only problem I foresee is that of the three philosophy professors I feel that could write me recommendation letters, only one is still at the U of I. And as sexy as Dr. O’Rourke is, I don’t know if they’d allow one sexy professor’s letter to count for three.

I could totally get a Census job with an MA in quant, and I’d love to teach philosophy if the opportunity were to arise, so…

So.

Who knows.

Blah, ignore this. Why must my two passions be so incompatible?

Today’s song: Throwing Fire by Ronald Jenkees