Elenamary

Her eyes were huge “You have upper level math”, I responded “I was an economics major, I needed the math” and I thought to myself, damn, that was back when I wanted to get a PhD in econ so I took more math than I needed.  ”You have a lot of upper level work in a lot of subjects” she declared while sitting straight up at the edge of her seat.  She, my new advisor, seemed excited scrolling through my transcript.  She stood up and asked me if I wouldn’t be so kind as to wait while she took my transcript to some other advisors “I’ve got to show someone what you’ve done.  I’ve never seen someone with so many credit hours”.  She left me as I sat there somewhat depressed wondering what those credit hours had gotton me.  I had a lot of almost complete minors, and a couple almost complete majors.   The only things that were complete were two bachelors one in economics-international studies and labor, the other in spanish linguistics, and a minor in latino/a studies (specialization queer feminist preforming artists).  What has any of this gotton me?

Not a helluva lot.  I need a beer.   Sometimes , I think maybe I should just teach and give up on this med school dream.  Sometimes I think I should run away to a beach, but how would I support myself.  I now know that I don’t want to get a PhD in eocnomis but I think that is the only thing I know.