so barnes&noble is having a children's sale until the 25th.
and the newly inspired teacher inside me has decided that tomorrow i am going to go look at books, games, supplies, and sing-along cds. it can't hurt to look. the sale is really good.
i'm getting really really excited. i actually want school to start again although i doubt my classes will be too exciting this semester since i have a lot of catching up to do, but i can still get excited right?
so tomorrow, i'm going to a bookstore to look at things through a teacher's eyes for the first time.
let's hope all goes well and i don't get scared off. j/k that won't happen.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 19, 2010
save the date.
what a crazy-horrible past 24 hours.
on the bright side of things, i have an advisory appointment set up and on the calendar.
August 3, 2010 at 12:00pm.
this is confusing for me because payment for classes are due that day and i still have to drop my other classes and hopefully be fit into new classes. that's gonna be a crappy day. i better clear my calendar and not have any more emotional things going on cause the stress is going to be at a maximum point.
on the bright side of things, i have an advisory appointment set up and on the calendar.
August 3, 2010 at 12:00pm.
this is confusing for me because payment for classes are due that day and i still have to drop my other classes and hopefully be fit into new classes. that's gonna be a crappy day. i better clear my calendar and not have any more emotional things going on cause the stress is going to be at a maximum point.
Friday, July 16, 2010
roadblock
this week is what will go down in history as an epic fail week.
let's see, i tried to make an appointment with an adviser this week.
did it work?
of course not, it's epic fail week remember?
apparently the next two weeks are blocked off for very important events for advisers.
events like vacation i would presume.
*epic eye roll*
so i said "pencil me in at the first available date."
secretary's response: "that would be august 2."
"perfect."
"i can't make appointments until at least 2 weeks advance."
*face palm*
"i'll call back monday."
who knew the college of education would be so difficult.
sneaky, sneaky.
did you catch that?
that's right, i'm changing my major to early childhood-6th grade.
i'm gonna be a teacher just like my momma. and because that's the only thing i think i'll be completely happy with.
here's how i am wired as a person: i don't want to be a successfully powerful, career-driven woman. i tip my hat to the women who do aspire to be that. several of my best friends are like that, and they are some of the strongest women i know. they will go on to do amazing things in their careers, and they will do all that while having a wonderful life and family. but i want to be as family focused as i can be. i don't want to work in a competitive industry working 60-80 hours a week, i don't want to always be focused on my next promotion and how to earn it. that means late nights at the office, weekends, 50 weeks a year, every holiday including christmas. my goal in life is to have a family. that's just my personal preference. i feel that teaching is the best job to allow me that. i might sound like i'm settling, but i guarantee you that i'm not. this is what i want. plus, i have so much experience in this field already. my lack of experience in retail was stressing me out. i'm happy and sure of my decision. now, i just have to get it going. august 2 can't get here fast enough.
let's see, i tried to make an appointment with an adviser this week.
did it work?
of course not, it's epic fail week remember?
apparently the next two weeks are blocked off for very important events for advisers.
events like vacation i would presume.
*epic eye roll*
so i said "pencil me in at the first available date."
secretary's response: "that would be august 2."
"perfect."
"i can't make appointments until at least 2 weeks advance."
*face palm*
"i'll call back monday."
who knew the college of education would be so difficult.
sneaky, sneaky.
did you catch that?
that's right, i'm changing my major to early childhood-6th grade.
i'm gonna be a teacher just like my momma. and because that's the only thing i think i'll be completely happy with.
here's how i am wired as a person: i don't want to be a successfully powerful, career-driven woman. i tip my hat to the women who do aspire to be that. several of my best friends are like that, and they are some of the strongest women i know. they will go on to do amazing things in their careers, and they will do all that while having a wonderful life and family. but i want to be as family focused as i can be. i don't want to work in a competitive industry working 60-80 hours a week, i don't want to always be focused on my next promotion and how to earn it. that means late nights at the office, weekends, 50 weeks a year, every holiday including christmas. my goal in life is to have a family. that's just my personal preference. i feel that teaching is the best job to allow me that. i might sound like i'm settling, but i guarantee you that i'm not. this is what i want. plus, i have so much experience in this field already. my lack of experience in retail was stressing me out. i'm happy and sure of my decision. now, i just have to get it going. august 2 can't get here fast enough.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
update #1
i know it's been a few days, blog, but it's been a busy few days.
that's my excuse. i'm gonna try not to have a lot of those for this blog, so consider this one hopefully, my last.
let's see, i don't have much to update on my efforts to get this started, except that i shot out an email and i'm making a phone call tomorrow. this phone call will hopefully lead to an adviser appointment, which will hopefully be the segway to "the rest of me life."
i might sound sarcastic at times, but i can promise you that i am really excited.
let's see, should i tell what i'm doing yet?
i just feel like it's all hyped up now, that it should be a big hooplah when i unveil it.
i also feel like i should make it official before i go announcing it to all of the internet world.
so until later, blog. i'll be back after my appointment to proclaim my new future.
that's my excuse. i'm gonna try not to have a lot of those for this blog, so consider this one hopefully, my last.
let's see, i don't have much to update on my efforts to get this started, except that i shot out an email and i'm making a phone call tomorrow. this phone call will hopefully lead to an adviser appointment, which will hopefully be the segway to "the rest of me life."
i might sound sarcastic at times, but i can promise you that i am really excited.
let's see, should i tell what i'm doing yet?
i just feel like it's all hyped up now, that it should be a big hooplah when i unveil it.
i also feel like i should make it official before i go announcing it to all of the internet world.
so until later, blog. i'll be back after my appointment to proclaim my new future.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Backstory:
i am a student at the university of north texas.
this is after transferring once already.
by years, i am a junior.
years don't really matter in college tho.
it's all determined by hours.
and i have 99 of those hours.
99 long, painful hours. that's 33 classes. approx. 6 semesters. 3 years.
i've been working on my college degree for 3 years. (2 years in actual college, 1 year in high school).
so technically i am a senior.
and guess what i'm doing for the third time since i started college 2 years ago.
i'm changing my major.
not only am i changing my degree, i'm going to a pretty extreme end from what i was at just like i did the second time.
so this is a blog that follows my endeavor to hopefully finally find out what it is i want to do with my life.
and maybe, just maybe i can finish school.
here's the detailed story:
i started at howard payne univ. it's a small private baptist school.
not my finest decision. talk about confining. there was nothing to do there except become a youth minister. everything else was pretty much worthless. so i obviously was itching to leave by october of my freshman year. i did make it through the whole year. and transferred to unt in may, began classes in june.
i began at hpu as a journalism major. that lasted about 2 days. then i changed to good ol' english cause i liked to write and the journalism dept. at hpu was being phased out which left about 3 classes to take for my major.
little did i know at the time that just blogging would satisfy that desire.
anyways, i realized that english at hpu would get me nowhere, hence my transfer which i already covered.
it wasn't til after a semester at unt that i discovered it wasn't just hpu that held me back in my degree; it was my degree in general. what does a person do with an english degree besides teach, and i definitely didn't want to teach english to a bunch of unappreciative high schoolers.
that's when i randomly went through the unt course catalog and basically closed my eyes and pointed at a new major. it wasn't quite like that, but it might as well have been.
my major for the semester was: fashion merchandising.
what does that entail you ask?
lots of pissy retail work.
i just thought i would get to look at clothes all day and dress all cute for work. boy, was i wrong. i took a semester of classes in fashion merch and my new minor of business foundations. that semester was so painful, that i look back now and it feels like it took years. the worst point is that i enjoyed it for that semester. it wasn't until my summer classes that i realized i was slowly killing myself. i took my professionalism class preparing me for my internship. let me tell you, i have never seen such tired looking professionals. we had guest speakers every week, and their lessons consisted of what i feel was hidden coding meant to convince us to run. they said things like "oh this is the best industry ever," but i feel like they were really saying "get the hell outta here while you still can, and don't look back. cute clothes are not worth it." those are the words that stuck in my head anyways, and i got out. well, i finished at least, but alas, here i am beginning my blog about the rest of my life in college and how i'm going to change my major once more.
so to catch up, i went from journalism-->english-->fashion merch.-->?
i know exactly what i'm changing my career goal to, but you don't yet blog. but that's for next time.
this is after transferring once already.
by years, i am a junior.
years don't really matter in college tho.
it's all determined by hours.
and i have 99 of those hours.
99 long, painful hours. that's 33 classes. approx. 6 semesters. 3 years.
i've been working on my college degree for 3 years. (2 years in actual college, 1 year in high school).
so technically i am a senior.
and guess what i'm doing for the third time since i started college 2 years ago.
i'm changing my major.
not only am i changing my degree, i'm going to a pretty extreme end from what i was at just like i did the second time.
so this is a blog that follows my endeavor to hopefully finally find out what it is i want to do with my life.
and maybe, just maybe i can finish school.
here's the detailed story:
i started at howard payne univ. it's a small private baptist school.
not my finest decision. talk about confining. there was nothing to do there except become a youth minister. everything else was pretty much worthless. so i obviously was itching to leave by october of my freshman year. i did make it through the whole year. and transferred to unt in may, began classes in june.
i began at hpu as a journalism major. that lasted about 2 days. then i changed to good ol' english cause i liked to write and the journalism dept. at hpu was being phased out which left about 3 classes to take for my major.
little did i know at the time that just blogging would satisfy that desire.
anyways, i realized that english at hpu would get me nowhere, hence my transfer which i already covered.
it wasn't til after a semester at unt that i discovered it wasn't just hpu that held me back in my degree; it was my degree in general. what does a person do with an english degree besides teach, and i definitely didn't want to teach english to a bunch of unappreciative high schoolers.
that's when i randomly went through the unt course catalog and basically closed my eyes and pointed at a new major. it wasn't quite like that, but it might as well have been.
my major for the semester was: fashion merchandising.
what does that entail you ask?
lots of pissy retail work.
i just thought i would get to look at clothes all day and dress all cute for work. boy, was i wrong. i took a semester of classes in fashion merch and my new minor of business foundations. that semester was so painful, that i look back now and it feels like it took years. the worst point is that i enjoyed it for that semester. it wasn't until my summer classes that i realized i was slowly killing myself. i took my professionalism class preparing me for my internship. let me tell you, i have never seen such tired looking professionals. we had guest speakers every week, and their lessons consisted of what i feel was hidden coding meant to convince us to run. they said things like "oh this is the best industry ever," but i feel like they were really saying "get the hell outta here while you still can, and don't look back. cute clothes are not worth it." those are the words that stuck in my head anyways, and i got out. well, i finished at least, but alas, here i am beginning my blog about the rest of my life in college and how i'm going to change my major once more.
so to catch up, i went from journalism-->english-->fashion merch.-->?
i know exactly what i'm changing my career goal to, but you don't yet blog. but that's for next time.