I'm graduating!

AngieDoogles · 02-20-2009, 02:05 PM

I got a letter in the mail today informing me that I will be graduating Summa Cum Laude and with other honors. I was excited. I guess I had forgotten about those things...and it is weird to think how close I am to graduating.

These next few months are going to be chaotic! I'll be working my internship, getting everything in order for graduation, finding out if I got into grad school, applying for jobs, and finding out about the scholarships I applied for. Hearing back from the graduate admissions committee and the scholarship committee will be the biggest things for me. Neither will be useful unless I get both. I can't go to grad school without the scholarships and the scholarships obviously don't matter if I don't get into grad school.

I'm really starting to panic about all this! Hopefully everything will fall into place.

Lindsey · 02-20-2009, 02:40 PM

Congratulations!!! I hope everything works out for you!

judy · 02-20-2009, 05:29 PM

I can't believe you're graduating already! It was just yesterday that you were talking about having 2 years left.

Congratulations on your Summa Cum Laude! That will definitely get you scholarships, plus the fact that you don't live with your parents. Colleges really want good students, and they will take good care of you. I never paid a penny for grad school.

Try to get a grad fellowship, with teaching hours. It's great to have college teaching on your resume. You can then also teach college part-time if you want.
Once you have college teaching on your resume, they will hire you as an adjunct.

gja1000 · 02-20-2009, 06:53 PM

Great advice Judy.

Congratulations Angie!!! May will be here before you know it. You are so wise to go right on to grad school - you'll be accepted, don't worry!!!

Blueyes · 02-20-2009, 07:35 PM

CONGRATS!!!! Everything will work out fine! They'll be lucky to have you, and happy to pay for it

AngieDoogles · 02-21-2009, 07:44 AM

Judy, I would LOVE to teach. It's my ultimate goal actually, but I think it will take several years to be in a position where they would want me. In social work, you have to have field experience to be valuable as a professor. The department doesn't have any students who teach classes. Also, the University has suffered major budget cuts this year and are expecting more next year. The Tennessee Board of Regents (the governing body over all TN universities and technical colleges) cut funding to ALL of the schools. I think the total so far has been a 13% decrease--which is huge. We have a budget task force coming up with ways to save money and they are asking professors to retire early and offering incentives for those who do. They are moving to more online class and more auditorium classes and reducing the number of hours the professors are working. Basically, they aren't hiring anyone right now and probably won't be until the economy starts recovering.

02-20-2009, 02:05 PM	#1
AngieDoogles Donating 4WT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,509	I'm graduating! I got a letter in the mail today informing me that I will be graduating Summa Cum Laude and with other honors. I was excited. I guess I had forgotten about those things...and it is weird to think how close I am to graduating. These next few months are going to be chaotic! I'll be working my internship, getting everything in order for graduation, finding out if I got into grad school, applying for jobs, and finding out about the scholarships I applied for. Hearing back from the graduate admissions committee and the scholarship committee will be the biggest things for me. Neither will be useful unless I get both. I can't go to grad school without the scholarships and the scholarships obviously don't matter if I don't get into grad school. I'm really starting to panic about all this! Hopefully everything will fall into place. __________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~MT

02-20-2009, 02:40 PM	#2
Lindsey Donating 4WT Talker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,764	Congratulations!!! I hope everything works out for you! __________________ Lindsey "I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it..." -Marilyn Monroe

02-20-2009, 05:29 PM	#3
judy Donating 4WT Yakker Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Denver, NY Posts: 8,097	I can't believe you're graduating already! It was just yesterday that you were talking about having 2 years left. Congratulations on your Summa Cum Laude! That will definitely get you scholarships, plus the fact that you don't live with your parents. Colleges really want good students, and they will take good care of you. I never paid a penny for grad school. Try to get a grad fellowship, with teaching hours. It's great to have college teaching on your resume. You can then also teach college part-time if you want. Once you have college teaching on your resume, they will hire you as an adjunct. __________________ *Judy*

02-20-2009, 06:53 PM	#4
gja1000 Donating 4WT Yakker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Central Texas Posts: 5,717	Great advice Judy. Congratulations Angie!!! May will be here before you know it. You are so wise to go right on to grad school - you'll be accepted, don't worry!!! __________________ Gayle

02-20-2009, 07:35 PM	#5
Blueyes Donating 4WT Talker Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 2,119	CONGRATS!!!! Everything will work out fine! They'll be lucky to have you, and happy to pay for it __________________ Betsi

02-21-2009, 07:44 AM	#6
AngieDoogles Donating 4WT 4000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,509	Judy, I would LOVE to teach. It's my ultimate goal actually, but I think it will take several years to be in a position where they would want me. In social work, you have to have field experience to be valuable as a professor. The department doesn't have any students who teach classes. Also, the University has suffered major budget cuts this year and are expecting more next year. The Tennessee Board of Regents (the governing body over all TN universities and technical colleges) cut funding to ALL of the schools. I think the total so far has been a 13% decrease--which is huge. We have a budget task force coming up with ways to save money and they are asking professors to retire early and offering incentives for those who do. They are moving to more online class and more auditorium classes and reducing the number of hours the professors are working. Basically, they aren't hiring anyone right now and probably won't be until the economy starts recovering. __________________ "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~MT

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