It's Official!!!

I am officially accepted into Graduate School for this fall.

I had applied for the Social Work program at the University of Kentucky earlier this year and after much back and forth between the Registrar's office here at EKU, I finally got official confirmation last night that I had been accepted to the program.

I'm very excited about this!

I've been looking at the classes online and I am pretty sure I can go part-time (which is what I wanted anyway) and still work. Its going to be busy I'm sure. I'll probably feel like pulling out my hair from time to time. But I work better under pressure anyway (or at least that is what I tell myself). So it should all work out fine.

I have a Bachelor's in History and I minored in both Appalachian Studies and Women's Studies while at EKU as an undergraduate. I finished all that up in 2006 and for the past four years I've pretty much been just floating around. I took a year off, then went back to school. I was enrolled in Graduate School at EKU in the Public Administration program with Community Development as my concentration. That lasted all of one year before I decided that it just wasn't what I thought it was going to be. It was a great program, just not for me.

I got accepted to the graduate school at Appalachian State University in North Carolina but due to family issues, I had to withdraw. (I was going to get my Master's in Appalachian Studies...something I would still like to do eventually. Maybe after I retire...)

I've been working at EKU now for a little over a year. I work in IT. Its a great job. I enjoy it. I love working for EKU. But I want to help people. It is my calling I think. Sometimes it just feels like I'm not doing enough to make a contribution to society. So, after some research I decided to apply to UK's graduate school in the Social Work program. It didn't require a background in Social Work to be admitted. So my acceptance was based soley on my academic record (thank you 3.5 GPA), my personal essays (thank you my past English teachers), and my reference letters (thank you Joyce, Sherry, and Retha).

I think I'll be a good Social Worker. I don't particularly want to work with the children. That sounds odd I'm sure, coming from someone that loves kids as much as I do. I just don't want to be associated, in a child's mind, with being taken away from their home or their parents...even if they NEED to be taken away from either place. I would much rather work with adults. So I'm hoping for a job in either the prison system or something along the lines of a women's center or abuse shelter. Which is why I am also going to pursue a Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies while also getting my Master's in Social Work.

So yeah, I'm gonna be a busy gal for the next two years or so.

I think it will be worth it though. :-)

Pray for me! :-)