Saturday, April 21, 2012

Graduating? Maybe..maybe not


This past semester has been crazy and I never would've thought I could let myself go the way I have; not necessarily physically but mentally. My grades are slipping, my motivation is closing, my ability to persevere is dissipating, everything seems to be slipping away. I didn't think I could be as burnt out as I am, and I want to leave for Ghana for almost four months?? What was I thinking? I'm crazy, but I love myself enough to know it's okay.

So here's my dilemma of the week: I wasn't a responsible student and slacked off in one class- Developmental Psychology. I went to class for the first month, and realized that I wasn't learning a thing: the class was 8 am, the professor was terrible and disastrously boring, his drone was worse than Stephen Hawkins and the topic just as bland. I am probably too much of a skeptic to believe in Developmental Psychology, but regardless I have earned roughly a 69% (not sure exactly because he hasn't graded 4 major sections of our entire grade) in the class probably but need a 70% to pass the class and graduate. I'm not asking for an A, I'm not asking for 10 points. I'm not saying that he should "give me" an extra point, I said I would earn it if possible. This is just being ridiculous and it's frustrating. I'm freaking out. I've never been in this predicament before. I'm sorry to rant, but this could make or break being apart of the Peace Corps.

But here's the good news for the week in relation to the Peace Corps

PEACE CORPS UPDATE

I received an e-mail April 16th asking for my updated resume, completed "graduated college transcripts" and an experience portfolio of the past year.
This is exciting news, but just as stressful due to the problems of me graduating. But I guess that's life.
Ghana is so close, I can taste it. I'm nervous though. I'm going to miss the states.
I have a lot of thank you letters to write in the next couple of days; there have been so many people who have helped me get to where I am right now. I have no idea where I would be without so many of them. My greatest gift from God has been the blessings he gave me from my university. Truly a remarkable place.
But onto other things... if I do graduate, which I hope and pray that I do, my resume and experience will be wonderfully updated well enough to hopefully make a great candidate to leave in September as nominated!! :)

God please bless me and the path that I pursue in these next five months!

As always, thanks for reading :)