Grad School update

So I sent out a total of 4 grad school applications, 2 in Engineering, 2 in Math. What has perspired:

Arizona- Mechanical Engineering PhD- accepted. Financial package TBA.
Maryland - Reliability Engineering PhD- accepted. Financial package TBA?
Arizona- Applied Math PhD- nothing official but they invited me to the open house, so yes? If I get in, they said they would have me covered financially.
New Mexico- Applied Math MS- no word.

So yeah, I've been going to the open house the Applied Math department set up to bring some people. They flew in some 30 out-of-towners, half pure, half applied, so that was awful nice of them. (Maryland might have sent me one, but it's during my Spring break and I aready have plans). Mostly the math department has had professors and students give mini presentations on work they are doing, spreading the entire field. I think I'll go to a couple of the last ones tomorrow morning, but I have classes still and everything.

Senioritis has hit me like (pop culture reference). For the most part, I don't really care all that much. I'm cool with straight B's, I can still get Sigma Cum Laude (or whatever the one below Magma is). Maybe Spring break will be just the refresher I need to finish the other ~44$ of the semester. God, I hope so.

Supposedly my family wants to go on some excursion starting this Saturday or Sunday. I am mixed. Originally my idea was to go to Albuquerque pending New Mexico's acceptance, check out the city and campus, either solo or with someone I could find to drag along. Inevitably, my folks invite themselves onto the trek, Albuquerque suddenly becomes too far to drive, and doesn't a weekend in Show Low sound much better? Gah. To put it oversimply, they're cramping my style, but what am I supposed to say, "No, you should spend your pre-approved time off by yourself?"I love my folks, I do, but I'm starting to get the same vibes regarding me going out of state as I did four years ago. Of course I wasn't "mature" enough - I never got the chance. Especially since I've had to move back home because of money, I feel like I'm being smothered all over again, and even when I lived by school, they were always too close for comofrt. I don't know. I do want to go hang out with people on Friday nights, have reasons to buy condoms, let my guard down and for once not worry about if the cops are gonna come. I want to have fun. I want to be happy. Maybe being liquored up and having STD scares won'y make me happy, but this status quo blows.

I bought fancy invitations for my graduation. I don't know, I don't see it as a big deal; I mean some six thousand other people will be receiving the same piece of paper. But since I never sent out any invitations for my high school graduation (all the important people I wanted were there) this seems rather foreign. Does anybody want one of mine? I guess I can send one to my dad via my aunt, as well as send one to her. I don't want money. I don't really wanna see my dad all that much, either,