Wars have started this way...

Perhaps by people with armies at their backs, but through the same sort of actions.

And my most recent action that is thankfully unlikely to start a war, is that I have decided to withdraw from Northeastern University and move back to NOVA, despite GMU's admissions being slow (there are more colorful ways to describe it, but now is not the time) and leaving me in Limbo for a while longer. While there were still options for me up here, I felt that the benefits for me staying had exhausted themselves and extending my enrollment would be counter-productive. Maybe I'm just over thinking it, or want to use polysyllabic words because I speak less than 2 dozen words to other people on a daily basis without being forced onto a phone.

I wonder how, if at all, the workplace altered for my co-workers after my departure. My guess is that the trend that had shown it's head would continue, and by June I may have enjoyed the job. But what may happen, and what did happen are two wildly different beasts and that led to my actions now.


I do wonder though, would I be taking the same path if I had gained a co-op elsewhere? If I had gone to Disney, would I still want to leave NU? What if FI had actually cared about who they hired and I had had the opportunity to apply for a interning at MIT, which may have been something I could have enjoyed, or at least found satisfaction in, from the start?

Well, I can't say for sure how things would have changed. But I do know that the corrosive atmosphere at FI managed to corrupt my view of NU and Boston as a whole. Maybe with some time and distance I'll be able to think clearly about it. Then again, I'm unlikely to think about it at all anytime soon.

More packing to do, so future me who will look at this, try to remember. I also hope that it worked out ok.--Past(Present?) Me