Heart attacks should not happen to 20 year olds
I always thought college would be hard, but the class work, not the "getting out of here and graduating" part. Do you know what I mean? I'm struggling with a few teachers, having an absent faculty advisor, and now I just got an e-mail explaining that I need to register for my student teaching by September. Huh. Well, it would've been nice if someone had told me that, right? Whew. I just want to leave with a degree by December 2010! Is that too much to ask?
TWU= high blood pressure
So, I called the Education Department this morning, and after a few minutes of speaking with an unpleasant secretary, I was finally able to speak with the lady who left that stressful voicemail for me. It turns out, she was worried because I was registered for Sociology and she didn't understand why- when I explained that it was to fulfill a Global Perspective credit, she told me that the class I was waitlisted for (History) is now fulfilling a Global Perspective, and not only that, but one person had dropped this morning and I was now the 2nd person on the waitlist. So... my complete breakdown this weekend was completely uncalled for, and could have been prevented if people could learn to be a little more informative when leaving a message for someone. Red flags= chaos. Clarity= a happy day for Cassie.
One of those days
Today has just not been my day. Preceded by Saturday not being my day, as well as possibly Friday and the entire week before that. And frankly, I just don't understand it. I've had so many obstacles to overcome this past year and I finally get to this place where I'm focused and working towards something, just for something else to throw me off. I'm running out of stuff to do that will go right, and it's bad enough that school was my last ditch effort at having something in my life to do right now, and now I'm just sort of standing still with no idea why God is allowing this or what He expects me to do about it. It's just been one of those days...
Red Flags and other kinds of crap
After a very long, unusual and hard week this week- what with my schedule conflicts, changing schools (again) and my sickness thing- I expected this weekend to be a little calmer since I had finished most of my homework and I was finally in a good place with school and registration. Then I get a call from TWU, saying they looked at my file for the Summer and Fall classes I've registered for and that it "raised a red flag" and I needed to call them back ASAP. Have I mentioned how much I absolutely love TWU????? Have I?!
Pitiful Pityriasis
So, I know this will not come as a shock to anyone- but I am sick again. This time it isn't some sort of throat infection, which I guess means I'm moving up in the world! No, this time it is a lovely skin thing (I hate the word rash, so I'll be a little vague and mysterious) called pityriasis rosea. Or as my mom likes to call it- "pitiful" and "rosy" because I have little rose-colored spots all over me like chicken pox. It lasts for 6-10 weeks, if not more. Hmmmm...maybe I'll look cute as a dalmation... who knows?
Apparently I'm a heathen...
So, I post these pictures of Lance's going away party and I get this message an hour later from myspace informing me they had to delete one or more of my images because they were considered "sexually inappropriate". Yeah- me. That's right- I am apparently, in the eyes of myspace, a heathen. Here's my question- if my pictures of a church youth group party are "inappropriate" then what do they label their myspace ads as? Interesting...
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?
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?
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