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Praise Be!
Nov. 12th, 2006 04:05 pmI feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
So, I've been wibbling a whole heck of a lot over what I was going to do after graduation. 'Grad school' seemed like a good bet, so I was looking at English grad school and kind of planning to be a professor, except honestly, I don't think I'd make a very good teacher. But I like the atmosphere of schools. I wasn't sure what to do about that. I had a pack of January first and fifteenth deadlines looming and hadn't even started applying, because somewhere deep inside I realized this was not the answer.
I went home this weekend for my great-grandmother's 92nd birthday party, and in the stack of mail that got sent to my house was a letter from the college of education here at UA. See, my overall GPA is pretty darn good and my GPA in my major is over a 4.0, so UA's grad schools have been throwing literature at me. This one in particular was about the master's program in Higher Education Administration.
And it clicked. While I was still reading the letter, I thought, Of course. This is it. I can work at colleges and not be a professor. And if I decide later on that I want to do something else, a lot of places employees get discounts on tuition, so I could do that. It's perfect.
They're having an open house at the end of November for interested parties, and of course I'm going, but I think I've pretty much decided this is what I'm doing. And it's an amazing feeling.
And the deadline isn't until March.
So, I've been wibbling a whole heck of a lot over what I was going to do after graduation. 'Grad school' seemed like a good bet, so I was looking at English grad school and kind of planning to be a professor, except honestly, I don't think I'd make a very good teacher. But I like the atmosphere of schools. I wasn't sure what to do about that. I had a pack of January first and fifteenth deadlines looming and hadn't even started applying, because somewhere deep inside I realized this was not the answer.
I went home this weekend for my great-grandmother's 92nd birthday party, and in the stack of mail that got sent to my house was a letter from the college of education here at UA. See, my overall GPA is pretty darn good and my GPA in my major is over a 4.0, so UA's grad schools have been throwing literature at me. This one in particular was about the master's program in Higher Education Administration.
And it clicked. While I was still reading the letter, I thought, Of course. This is it. I can work at colleges and not be a professor. And if I decide later on that I want to do something else, a lot of places employees get discounts on tuition, so I could do that. It's perfect.
They're having an open house at the end of November for interested parties, and of course I'm going, but I think I've pretty much decided this is what I'm doing. And it's an amazing feeling.
And the deadline isn't until March.
