Have Cake, Will Decorate
So...
Sometimes you spend years working two or three jobs at a time while going to school full-time and earning two degrees at two different well-known and well-respected universities. Maybe you continue to go to school and nearly earn a third degree in addition to taking classes simply for fun. And sometimes this hard work pays off and you get accepted into a very exclusive graduate program at a prestigious university.
Now, sometimes you work very closely with a certain faculty member for two years before you head off to grad school. Maybe they know all about your film projects and your theater background, and your current graduate studies in Theater Mgmt. Sometimes the person in question talks with you at length about the city you will move to because she grew up there and knows about the neighborhoods. Maybe she also talks with you about your future career goals after grad school.
So WHY, when this person should obviously know what's going on, do they still think you're going to grad school to major in PARTY PLANNING?!? You probably don't seem like the kind of person who would enjoy planning events, since you get in trouble for not even making it through the work day with a smile on your face. I bet you have even made known your distaste for all things domestic, especially your inability to cook.
Sometimes, what it all boils down to, is that you are left struggling with whether to laugh or be offended when this person refers to your program as a place where you learn to "decorate cakes".
Not that this happened or anything. I'm just saying.
P.S. Sometimes you have to toot your own horn...not to brag about yourself, but to put the "cake decorating" comment into perspective. If you want to decorate cakes, take a pay cut and work in a bakery. But you DON'T need to move across the country to go to grad school for it.
Sometimes you spend years working two or three jobs at a time while going to school full-time and earning two degrees at two different well-known and well-respected universities. Maybe you continue to go to school and nearly earn a third degree in addition to taking classes simply for fun. And sometimes this hard work pays off and you get accepted into a very exclusive graduate program at a prestigious university.
Now, sometimes you work very closely with a certain faculty member for two years before you head off to grad school. Maybe they know all about your film projects and your theater background, and your current graduate studies in Theater Mgmt. Sometimes the person in question talks with you at length about the city you will move to because she grew up there and knows about the neighborhoods. Maybe she also talks with you about your future career goals after grad school.
So WHY, when this person should obviously know what's going on, do they still think you're going to grad school to major in PARTY PLANNING?!? You probably don't seem like the kind of person who would enjoy planning events, since you get in trouble for not even making it through the work day with a smile on your face. I bet you have even made known your distaste for all things domestic, especially your inability to cook.
Sometimes, what it all boils down to, is that you are left struggling with whether to laugh or be offended when this person refers to your program as a place where you learn to "decorate cakes".
Not that this happened or anything. I'm just saying.
P.S. Sometimes you have to toot your own horn...not to brag about yourself, but to put the "cake decorating" comment into perspective. If you want to decorate cakes, take a pay cut and work in a bakery. But you DON'T need to move across the country to go to grad school for it.
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