The art and beauty that is the Pro-Con List- mixed with a little stubborness

This week, which is not even half over, has been one of the most confusing, irritating, emotional weeks of my life- which is saying something. (The emotional part, anyway) So, after much prayer, a few interesting meetings, and a wonderful Pro and Con list (if it worked for Rory, it can work for me!), I am now registered for Fall 2009 at Texas Woman's University. Shocked? Yeah, me too.
After looking at my degree plan versus the UNT degree plan for Elementary Education, I decided to walk in without an appointment to the Department of Teacher Ed and see where their advice would get me. Well, I had a meeting with a gentleman who I hope I never have to speak with again,who-very kindly, mind you- informed me that my graduation goal and the plans I had to take my EDUC courses this fall (the all important teacher classes that morph me into a teacher) were, in his wonderful words "unrealistic". I promise you, if I hear that word again, I will scream very loudly and bang my head against a wall. Any wall. I spent over an hour in a meeting with this man and walked away miserable and crying when he told me I would have to change my certification because "no district anywhere but the panhandle would hire you because of your certification for only EC-4". These are my thoughts: Really? Then why does your department have that as the only generalist certification for elementary ed? Hmmmm?
After calming down, and feverishly attacking my current degree plan and the search system for registering for class, I found some options involving two summer courses, one of which was with a professor of mine who happens to be my favorite teacher. I e-mailed him, told him my problems, asked if I could register for his class, even though I'd be out of the state for the youth trip for three days of the summer course and he said sure. And that's all it took for me to wake up at 7 this morning, march down to the Education department, and ask for permission to speak with someone.
I know this is long, but stay with me- I couldn't register online because it wasn't acknowledging my admittance to the Teacher Education program because they are counting my ACT scores as my THEA entrance because the scores were high enough. The secretary tells me over the phone that it's no problem, I just have to add the course manually by coming down and getting an advisor to sign off on my request. So, I walk in at 7:45 where another secretary asks what I want, I tell her and she stares at me and says the advisors do not come in until 8, when I said I knew that, and I'd wait, she tried to get me to come back later, but since there was only one spot left for one of these EDUC classes, I told her I had brought a book, sat down and said "I'll wait."
We're nearing the end, I promise! Finally, a wonderful Christian woman came and said she's sign off, but she needed to look at my file first. She found all of my information, signed off, and put me into the program. I then ran to the Registar's office and enrolled in the EDUC classes the other man said were "premature" and "unrealistic".
All I can say is God was definitely watching over me this week, and I have never been more thankful for His guidance, and the wonderful stubborness He gave me when I was born. :)

I am now graduating in December 2010, in which I will have just turned 21 years old! I wonder what that man would say now?