Tuesday, July 7, 2020

College is complete, maybe?

So it’s been a long time since I did a blog post, I don’t think I’ve done one this entire year. To say things have been crazy since I started college would be the understatement of the century, well except for this year which has been an understatement in itself. I started the year off in with my last semester to complete my bachelor's degree. It was kind of bumpy to start with and there were just some things that we weren’t sure about, but it got better. Of course, as soon as it started to get better, about halfway through the semester, boom corona hit. I went from being home during the day by myself to being home with two other students, one in middle school finishing up the year and one college student finishing up the semester online. It made the days very interesting, bogged down our internet service, and made it for some very testy interactions. People got ill and aggravated, it just wasn’t a very pretty thing in the beginning. After we had been home for a few weeks we settled into a routine and then my semester was over.





Of course, my graduation was canceled and that was a bummer I cried. The university said we would have a ceremony but they couldn’t tell us when, so we had a virtual recognition and I graduated with the highest honors summa cum laude, which I was very proud of. I had to wait several weeks because of the virus for all of the paperwork and everything to come from the University but I finally got everything that I needed to start the process of applying for my teaching license. Well, I started the application only to discover that I was still missing two pieces of information that I needed and that was three weeks ago. I had to make some phone calls and was able to request some of the paperwork, from one organization, that was mailed and the other paperwork I have to go pick up today. I’m hoping to get this whole licensure application completed by the beginning of next week. I guess we will see!

Anyway, I have no idea what I’m doing next as I don’t want to go into my first year of teaching when we have no idea what the school year is even going to look like. I talked about the possibility of just returning to school and working towards my Masters with my family and then contacted the University. My name has been placed on a waiting list for a class this fall as a visiting student, as it was too late to apply for the Master's program for this fall. Now I just wait for a phone call or email letting me know if I have gotten into the class. The way I see it is if I get into the class then that's the Lord's way of letting me know that he opened this door and he wants me to go through. If I don’t get into the class then I know that it’s not what he wants me to do. I know my college days are not over because once I get my license I have to take so many glasses in a certain amount of time to keep it. Therefore, I know I’ll be going back to school I just don’t know what I’ll be doing this coming up school year. For me the waiting is hard, I like to be able to make plans and figure how things are going to go, but I have had to learn to take my hands off of things and let God do the work. The Bible says in Psalm 46:10a, "Be still, and know that I am God:".  I just have to give it to him and let him guide me in what he would have me to do. So the question remains masters program or not? I don’t know if I wanna bite off going to school again or if I just want to be finished for right now and take classes as I need to keep my license. I hate being indecisive, it’s never been my thing!

Be Still and Know That I Am God Psalm 46:10 KJV Calm Ocean | Etsy



That’s my two cents worth, what’s yours?




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