I GOT IN!!!!

I got into grad school!!!! I hadn't talked about it because I hadn't actually gotten in. But anyway, story:

After I quit Zipline, Jeff gave me full permission to just sit and do nothing for a few weeks to unwind and de-stress (this is how bad that job was). So while I was at home watching tv and eating ice cream, I thought about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. And Jeff and I know we want to move to Seattle, so I was looking for jobs in Seattle and everyone that I wanted to apply for said "7 years experience or a Masters Degree." I was finding myself looking more and more at at Project Management in the IT world.

So I started looking into it and going back to school didn't sound that bad. And so Jeff and I started talking about it, and we both agreed that it would be the best thing for our future. This conversation definitely included who would stay home with the kids part time and such, and we both agreed that Jeff would be better to do that because he loves programming, but really doesn't enjoy doing it 40 hours a week. So we decided that I would be the 40-hour-a-week person and Jeff would be the stay-at-home/part-time-freelancing dad.

So I found a program that I was really interested in at Boston University. I looked at a lot of different programs that were accredited through PMI. But the reason I really liked this particular program because a lot of programs were mixing business class with project management classes and Boston mixes computer science classes with project management classes, which I felt was better for what I want to do.

So I applied and sat and waited for three weeks and just got the acceptance email yesterday.