Last day of classes tomorrow, I am so happy! I will miss my soils class but not the tests. I got a 77 on the last exam, which is pretty bad. My statistics grades have gone way down--from a 100 on the first homework and 97% on the first exam to grades in the 70s. I am pretty apathetic for being a supposedly good student. Like when I got a C+ in genetics--I was so happy that I didn't have to retake it that I didn't care (especially since I thought I failed the final). Will anyone care if I graduate with a bunch of B+s? I don't want to work for anyone that is so particular.

I talked to a Masters student and she is graduating at the end of the summer. I'm very happy for her because that will be me in not too much time. She is very cool and down to earth, involved in growing mushrooms. I'm so glad I'm just a Masters student. Grant writing, 70 hour work weeks and university politics are not for me. That's how all the professors I know have been--crazy busy with the mundane aspects. Maybe it's different out of science, I don't know. Probably not the politics part.

I know a bunch of MPS--Masters of Professional Studies students. You can get a MPS in Horticulture, also International Agriculture and some other interesting subjects. One comes with a Peace Corps experience (though I'm surprised no one seems to acknowledge the very serious faults of Peace Corps). I get jealous of them, they take fun classes, audit science classes (vs for a grade like me) and don't have to take stats. But then I realized they have a hard time getting funding; that's why I'm an MS. I don't want any debt, so I can do whatever I want.