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[chestnutcurls]

Spring has temporarily disappeared. It's irritating. But I won't talk about it, since I know some of you have snow on the ground. :)

Tonic will be playing at Newby's tomorrow night. The tickets are only ten dollars. I just found out about it on Sunday, and I really want to go. But I have church band practice, and the director would probably be mad if I skipped, especially since I joined the band late. Why, oh why, does the show have to be on a Wednesday? :( I want to continue playing in the band after Easter, but the Jean Larroux Bible study is supposed to start up again in late May, and the thought of never attending it makes me sad. I'm not sure what to do about that.

I received a monkey, complete with palm tree, in the mail the other day from sominfun. I also got a nice letter from mickey24sync. I love fun mail days.

My sister has three weeks to decide where she'll be going to college. She's torn between two schools- one in Nashville and one in Oklahoma City. Up to this point, she's preferred Nashville, but her friend/prospective roommate just announced that she's going to the OK City school, so Debra is rethinking everything. OK City is also cheaper and is pursuing her more actively. I wish she would go to Nashville, because my mother has implied that she won't be able to afford to fly Debra home from Oklahoma and I may never see her again if she goes there. How uplifting.

Sometimes I feel bad that I went to college at Memphis. The fact that I could have gone to a "better" school always nags at me. I didn't have much choice, since I didn't want to leave town, but people have such disdain for U of M. In the end, I think just having a degree matters more than where you got it, but people (including your own family) scoffing at your school and referring to it as "Tiger High" never boosts your self-esteem. :P Anyone have any thoughts on the importance of a Big Name school?

I mentioned a long time ago that a new movie theater/entertainment complex is being built nearby. It's almost finished now! My mom mentioned it to me this weekend...because she thought it would be "a good place to meet someone." Great. Because that's the kind of person I want to end up with- some random guy I met at a movie theater. Should I really be that desperate? Good grief. Some mothers would be proud to have a daughter with standards. Mine just wants me to hang around waiting to get hit on. The older I get, the more my life resembles the comic strip Cathy. Frightening.

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[isthisemo.livejournal.com]

where in nashville?

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Trevecca. Have you heard of it? I think it's near downtown.

[isthisemo.livejournal.com]

yes i have its a religious school

i went to belmont

[moredetails.livejournal.com]

I'm still laughing about the last paragraph. :) Yes, there are all sorts of awesome Christian men that you can get to know really well right there at the theater. :P I mean, who doesn't have time to mingle before a show? Just pre-make cards with your number and maybe a few stats about yourself--it'll be so easy and entirely safe and wise. My parents have always been really great about not trying to marry me off, but I think Dania could probably relate to you on this...her mom likes to make a mention of any single man to either Dania or me. As if my only requirement is that he be male and single.

How come an out-of-state college is cheaper? Are they both private so that it doesn't matter?

You're mostly right--the degree is what matters, not the school. I think for certain lines of work it's nice to have a specific school to back you up, particularly if you want to advance high in the field. But if you're like me, and I think you are, you're not looking to climb the corporate ladder or be defined by your alma mater. Just be glad you graduated from as opposed to what I call the "University of Phoenix"'s out there. That is a school (extension, I guess) here in Sac, and it's basically nonaccredited, etc.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know! It's all so easy! Sheesh. :)

Yeah, they're both small private Christian schools (which is another point of contention- she's the good daughter going to the Christian school instead of the big evil public school).

So there is no real University of Phoenix? :) Hey, doesn't one of the California schools have a campus somewhere in New York? Or vice versa? I never understood what that was all about. "Yeah, I went to the University of California, Buffalo." :)

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[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Wow, she gets to be good daughter for choosing a Christian school? My dad couldn't understand my desire to go to a Christian school, so I was sort of the bad daughter for choosing that pricey place. My parents urged me to choose Chico (where they went) or Sac State (where I eventually graduated from).

I think there is a real U of Phoenix, but I think it's different somehow. I don't know how all of that works, and I'm not sure but I wouldn't doubt that there is a UC in New York. :) USC had a campus in DC, but it closed down a couple of years ago.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Chico! What a fun name! "It's Spanish for...the chico!"

Well, they are kind of mad about the financial issue. I had a full scholarship, so they gave me an allowance so I could concentrate on school and not have to work. But they're not planning to give Debs much support, since the school is expensive. Anyway, my mom sees it as better because she has high marriage hopes for my sister and thinks she has good odds of marrying a preacher if she goes to a Christian school. I'm not making this up. She sends my sister to a Christian school to look for a husband, but the movie theater is good enough for me. :P

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[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Oooh my your mom is... interesting. What is with parents wanting to marry off their kids?

Chico is a fun name? :) That's funny...it's just a college down about 40 minutes north of where I live. It's a pretty campus, but known to be the party school.

[aardwolf.livejournal.com]

The University of Phoenix has one of the first online degree programs. They have sent me all kinds of stuff trying to get my non-accredited degree online. Blech!

[lifeofpatrick.livejournal.com]

The University of Phoenix is Accredited


University of Phoenix is accredited (http://www.phoenix.edu/Accreditation.asp)

The Higher Learning Commission accredits organizations of higher learning in the north central region of the United States. (http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/)

Accredited along with all the rest of theese school (http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/directory/index.php)

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[moredetails.livejournal.com]

Ok, thanks. I sort of use "University of Phoenix" as a phrase to describe a certain kind of school (many of them not being accredited). Here where I live, people know what I mean.

[lifeofpatrick.livejournal.com]

Ok I guess now you need to find a new school to pick on

[lovelife.livejournal.com]

I'm like Jessica, still laughing at your last paragraph. I've been lucky my mom has never made comments like that but she does think every guy friend of mine is going to get together with me. I'm not quite sure where she comes up with this since the majority of my friends are guys. Meanwhile my friends are like your mom. lol. I have to agree with your second to last sentence---I even thought that of myself when I was in high school. My journal was full of Cathy comics I related to. I don't really have any comments to make regarding big name schools. None of mine have been. Here I went to our local community college and now I'm taking online classes from a private Christian school in Indiana. It's accredited by all the right things but I'm not really going for a BA yet. I figured I should still take classes but I'm not sure what I'm going for yet.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks for relating.

For Mother's Day last year, I got my mom a copy of the little Cathy book about mothers. Apparently she still doesn't see the similarities. :)

[ex-lifeofbri692.livejournal.com]

i don't know what life is like in 'the south', but here in seattle.. only jr. high and highschool kids hangout at the movies.. as far as going to the movies that's a whole nother question.

[laura8225.livejournal.com]

I went to a community college my junior and senior years of high school (it's a special program in Ohio where you can go to college for free). People call the college "13th grade" because it's so much like high school. I would have felt a little silly going there after high school, but since I was technically still in high school, I didn't mind going to 13th grade. Other than that, I don't think it matters what college you go to, just that you graduate and get your degree.

I'm glad my parents aren't trying to push me into a relationship. Since only one of my four older siblings is married (and the other three aren't in relationships), I think my parents would more likely pester them if they were going to pester anyone. Personally, I wouldn't mind meeting a guy at a movie theater. At least then I'd know we had similar tastes in movies (for example, if I met someone while going to see "Return of the King").

[starloft.livejournal.com]

while i think college is slightly over-rated for the most part, you ought not feel bad about going to memphis. it is most definitely an accomplishment to get a degree because of the sacrifice of time, work, and money that it takes. i wish your sister blessings where ever she ends up going to school!

sort of related... if employers really value college degrees they ought to hire right out of high school and fund college in it's entirity while you either work for them part time or agree to work for them once you're done with school.

laura, which community college did you go to while in high school? i almost did that program, too, but i opted for A.P. classes instead.

hanging out at the movie theater must be a southern thing. cause people don't do that here in ohio either, unless they are waiting for their parents to pick them up. ...but maybe you could meet another memphis grad at the theater. ;) ...just kidding.

[sominfun.livejournal.com]

My mom worried about our decision to get married. She likes Joe, and she trusts me. She's always had really guarded feelings about me settling down, though. She thought (and probably still thinks) that I wanted to be married sooner rather than later at the expense of finding a "good match." But that's my mom, and I know she's atypical.

About colleges: you have different experiences at different schools. I participated in our high school's dual enrollment program like the person above did. I took college classes as a junior and a senior at a community college, which was essentially 13th grade. Then my four years at FSU, and my year at SUNY. All three schools have had very different experiences, but I agree with you about the institution being less important than the piece of paper. There are certain schools that jump out at people like MIT or Harvard, but for the most part people are pretty much satisfied that you got a degree.

Now what are you waiting for? Get to the theater!

[markis97.livejournal.com]

Protect your monkey from jsmoe34, he killed the one that sominfun gave him. Though the jury is still out on his guilt.

Mothers will always suggest things like that. Mine does too. They're just trying to look out for you us I guess. You never know though, you might meet a really nice guy there. Just because it was a random guy at a movie theatre doesn't make him a good guy. In general the meeting of a lot of couples tends to be random and coincidental from what I've seen. The way I see it, it doesn't hurt to keep that option open. Just don't tell your mom she was right if you do meet someone ;)

[(Anonymous)]

hey! what school in OKC? i live in tulsa, OK...but i have a friend who is the BCM director at a school in OKC, so i was just curious.

i think your mom and my mom would get along famously. argh.

[(Anonymous)]

oops...that last one was me. i forget that these LJ comments don't take names of non-LJ users. :-P

amber

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

:)

It's Southern Nazarene University- better known as SNU (pronounced snoo). :)

[(Anonymous)]

ah, yes. i know it well. they have an extension in tulsa and i hear commercials for it all the time: "southern nazarene university, the college that works for working adults!" :)