Doctoral Program Application Update

I will be speaking with a prof. at Indiana a week from Tuesday to discuss the option of moving to Indiana and working for a year (maybe 18 months) prior to enrollment in order to gain instate tuition rates. It would save us 30k + interest.

I have also spoken with BYU and Arkansas in the last few weeks, and they still have not received a decision from the applicants (those who are ahead of me) they offered admission to. I will know for sure where I will be by April 15th. Any of the 3 schools are at this point still a possibility. However, Indiana seems the most likely. It could come down to the wire!

Wherever we go, we will most likely be moving in July.

3/30 Update - Arkansas is now out of the running... so it's down to 2.

4/7 Update - There is a "possibility" of an assistant instructor position in the fall at IU. If I got it, it would pay something like 2/3 to all of my tuition, for the first year... keep your fingers crossed!

4/10 Update - I have been offered a teaching assistant position at Indiana. I will find out more on Monday regarding the details. It includes a stipend, but the tuition assistance is yet to be determined. More to come!

4/13 Update - I have been offered admission at BYU. I have also found out the details of the $ at Indiana. They will pay for 20 credits per year, + the teaching job will pay 14,000. BYU's financial package will probably cover tuition, but not much more.

4/14 Update - At Indiana I would probably have 10 credits per year on top of the 20 they pay for, so that would be about 9k. That leaves about 5k per year. They would also give me health insurance (not the whole family though).

I'm really good at wasting money on nothing in particular.

Dang it. Dang it. Dang it.

I decided to drive four hours to fly out of a different airport, thinking it would be cheaper. Then a friend of mine got a ticket for only $50 more from the airport 10 minutes away.

I paid for parking in advance, $40 for 4 days. But apparently I parked in the wrong place, so in addition to the $40 I paid upfront, I had to pay $106 for the four days.

My plane got in later than I thought, and I had to get a hotel room for the night before driving home. That was $126.

In total, when I was expecting to save money, I paid about $250 more and came home 12 hours later. How lame is that?

Oh please oh please oh please don't let this be too much of a marital issue. :)

No More Bible!

This post is a continuation from the thread on Prop. 8, which became a discussion on the Biblical interpretation and Christianity, among other things.

A few questions:

• What kind of role does the Bible play in your life?
• Do you view the Bible to be infallible? If so, do you believe the words or the message to be infallible?
• With so many people (even in the same religion or faith group) disagreeing on interpretation of verses in the Bible, is an objective and "true" interpretation possible? How would you propose it? Where do you get your interpretation from?