news.

yesterday, my "application status" for transferring to princeton theological seminary changed from "your application is being reviewed by the committee" to "you have been accepted!"

i thought the inclusion of the exclamation point was cute.

i've had mostly good experiences at palmer, but i was an outlier in their student body to begin with, and starting in the fall, they are changing their curriculum to make me even less of a fit. since i have two years left to go, i figured applying for a transfer to another school wasn't a bad idea.

so i will be spending the next two years at princeton and receive my master of divinity there.

this was a pretty tough decision, made partly more difficult by having been in this exact same place about 10 years ago. mcgill decided to get rid of their classics department because it didn't have enough students to make it financially viable. unfortunately for me, i was majoring in classics at the time. i remember doing the research about transferring to other schools with the tension building in my shoulders. it was literally painful to think about transferring. in the end i didn't, partly because i had 1 year left at mcgill and would have had 2 at any other school. in retrospect, that might not have been the best decision i made - my last year at mcgill was my worst academically, emotionally, physically...

on the other hand, i did learn something from it. i learned when to run away. so about a month ago, i applied to princeton. i have, naturally, been ridiculously stressed out since then, but now at least some of that stress is relieved. the other difference about this situation is that i would have 2 years left, whatever school i went to. and there were some people who thought i should have gone to princeton from the beginning.

so. princeton. huh.

now we just need to get the house sold, and life will be completely overhauled. eek.