School

Here I am. Sitting in Starbucks trying to write a final paper that is due on Tuesday. Yes, I procrastinated once again and am paying the price. If we're honest, I probably won't get the paper written tonight either and I'll be stuck scrambling around trying to get it finished tomorrow night.

All of my classes chose the week after Thanksgiving break to have all their major projects due. Or at least some sort of project. My homework is scattered around me and I'm stressed out! It has got me to thinking....

I grew up knowing that I would attend college. I didn't even realize that there was another option until I was in high school and couldn't imagine doing something else. I don't exactly know where that mind set came from.

Don't get me wrong, I have never once regretted my decision to go to college. I have met many, many amazing people that I would never have had the chance to meet if it weren't for TU. Every once in a while though I do wish that I had taken a year off after high school. School is just exhausting. It's probably a good thing I didn't. I would never go back.

So now as a junior, I'm starting to give graduate programs a glance. And they are scary. My plan right now is to not attend graduate school right out of the gate. Most people would probably suggest I do, but I just don't know about that yet.

Recently, I got the opportunity to go visit Gallaudet University in Washington DC. It was fantastic. The group of girls was great and there were enough of us that we could break up into groups and not get totally sick of each other. We will save that trip for another post. While we were there we visited Gallaudet's graduate programs open house. Neat, right?

At first, I just kind of scoffed at the idea. I had/have/whatevs no real intention of going to graduate school. My idea was that I'll leave school and go get a job (I do have a grant that I have to work off still....). Get my masters later through some online program.

But once I was there, I found this amazing program. It just seemed to fit exactly what I want and what I need. It's not a Master's program. Simply a certification program. It's all online for one calendar year. The only time you have to be on campus is three days at the beginning and three days at the end. The best part? The program is something about working with infants and toddlers who are deaf. Perfect, right?

Fingers crossed everything continues to work out. If I survive this week that is...