For the past year, I have not been in school. I graduated college with my BA in journalism in May 2011. It is hard to believe I have been out in the real world, working as a reporter for more than a year-and-a-half. The more I reflect, the more I realize since graduating college, everything that I have been through and it’s been a miracle I survived.
I took a non-matriculated course immediately after graduating college in higher education, for NM graduate.school. It was in writing arts, however, mid-way through the semester, I was tired of it and did not have the heart.
Now, almost two years later, more than anything I long for going back to school. My heart often freezes in mid beat at the thought of furthering my education and getting my MA. My college has a new graduate track for psychology/counseling, and I want to do that.
More than anything, right now, I want to go. I figure it this way – I am going to be paying back for my eating disorder treatment for the next 5 to 10 years. I will also be paying back the remainder of my undergrad college for the next 5 to 10 years. I will be paying my parents back for a medical bill for the next 3 to 6 years, and I will be paying back a loan for the admission of treatment for the next 5 to 10 years. So, why not freeze my loans for college, go back to school, study something extremely meaningful to me, now, and get my master’s in this counseling program.
If I am paying back, why not pay back for something worth it?? There are so many good things to this. No one can take a college education from you, so why not further my study in what I am passionate about, that took me to now to learn?
So, I am. I told my parents tonight, I am going back to school.
I shall keep the blog posted on this…for this is huge in my life. And this is what I would like to call a dream.
Wow. I actually have a dream I want to chase?!
May I find peace in this uncertain world. 