Accepted

I found out yesterday that I was accepted into the 4 year university to which I applied. Thank goodness my $50 fee didn't go to waste then.

But yay for that. I'm glad. I'm on this road that I've picked out for myself in 2006 and it's nice that things are moving along.

My husband has epilepsy and after being fired from many jobs, we finally had to apply for disability for him. We moved in with my parents while we waited for the social security system to approve him after being denied at first. The wait was 2.5 years. During which time I was a school bus driver. When summer break came about in 2006, we faced a decision. We were considering, now that he has disability, our options for moving out.

However, I got a wild hair up my butt and for some odd reason decided to continue torturing myself with college education.

After high school, I was so fed up with school and people I didn't want to even think about college. Plus I didn't know what I wanted to study. So I went to beauty school, where I also learned that I hate the people interaction that comes with it, and I especially hated coming home with peoples hair all over me.

So I went to the community college. Again, I had no idea what I was doing, I just randomly picked some classes. Then I decided to get into TV and Film Production. Which would only be an applied Associate's degree. Well, that was going pretty good... until my advisor messed me up big time. I sat down with him just before the fall semester and told him "I want to graduate next spring." This was in theory very do-able. After all, what is an Associate's degree... 2 years. By the time I wanted to graduate I would have been in college for 2 years.

He screwed me over, big time. He didn't put me in an editing class that is only offered in the fall, and I found this out in the spring. How stupid is that? So I was going to have to go to college for another year (Editing I - Fall. Editing II - Spring) which pissed me off to no end. I quit.

Life happened in between there... and in 2006 I decided to give it another try. It's a personal thing now, I really want a college degree. But also, since I have to make the money in this marriage right now, I need a good job as well. (yeah yeah, enter many varying opinions about just how necessary or unnecessary a college degree is anymore.)

I went back again not knowing what I wanted to do. I started off in psychology just because I had no idea of anything else. I switched to mathematics, but then when talking to my astronomy professor, I think he got me pointed in a nice direction. He told me about geography and how it's a vast science field with many options to get into.

There we go. That's what I'm doing. I think, if nothing else, that geography will be a degree I can at least tolerate studying.
I am back in the community college simply because the tuition is cheaper. But now I'm going to graduate (finally) with an Associate's Degree this May. And then I have to move on to a 4 year university as a junior.

Sidenote: It is ridiculous how hard it is to actually get out of college in 2 or 4 years. It always seems to take at least one extra year. I know part of that is because of some terrible advisors who have their heads up their butts. *eyeroll*