life? We're not in Kansas anymore...we'll I may be
So in the spirit of everyone's recent updates and extreme graduation and life feelings I thought I would update as well. I'm also hoping this outpouring will relieve the tension headache that I have had for the past three days, seriously I think my brain is going to explode from stress. So I finally came to terms with taking a year off and have been searching for jobs and even made apartment renting plans. I have been just trying to move forward not worrying about making it or leaving behind the huge happiness I have found in my work and friendships at Davis. Plus it seems very possible that that all will continue into the next year with many people staying close to Davis and others promising to keep in touch but I still know everything is going to change and that deeply saddens me. Anyways I even broke the news about my life choices to my parents and even had a bit of fight with them over it but they were starting to get on board and get excited for me. When bam Monday I got an acceptance letter for the master in student personnel from Kansas State University. Wow! I'm half really excited about this possibility and half terrified. I'm not sure if I'm taking it yet I'm waiting to hear about graduate assistance positions. If they offer me a position then I will 95% sure take it. Which means in the span of the next few weeks I will go from taking a year off to moving to Kansas or not. Its stressing me out big time right now because I'm so not sure about my options. It is basically forcing me to put all my plans on hold until I know about this program. Then once I decide there will be so much work involved either continuing to plan for my year off or making plans to move and find housing in Kansas. I'm going to have extreme weather to deal with not to mention all the things I need to find out about the school, the program, possibly my new job, its a lot. The GA position I'm waiting to find out about is not in housing so I would be not only taking a big step by leaving California but also the comforts of housing. I'm partly excited about this; it forces me to try new options and explore other student affairs work but at the same time housing is so safe...built in friends and work buddies, I know a lot about it and I wouldn't have to find an apartment and roommates from halfway across the country. On the other hand, people do it all the time and even make these types of arrangements for study abroad so it wouldn't be that bad. And after working in another field for a year I will also have the option of going back to housing right now the GA position I'm a perspective candidate for is in Academic Advising services. I had a lot of unfinished plans and willingness to be flexible for my year off so I suppose I can go in with the same mind set except its scaryer with no friends and family to fall back on. But I am excited about the possiblity of moving forward and beginning this next phase right away versus putting off the same choices for another year. It cuts out some time and gets me closer to my professional goals and would give me something concrete about my future. So yeah I really hope I hear back about my GA poisiton soon so I can start moving forward in whatever direction that may be.