Its been crazy times, and I'm falling into old habits of not updating. I think I'll need to set a goal for myself of updating once per week from now until September (when I will likely get a new blog because of my new location...). That would be better, I figure, for those of you who might still be reading this blog - despite its lack of postings this year.
(here's what really weird, though, I thought I had posted once since the last post.... don't know where that post went)
Well, its one week until graduation officially.
In the last month or so, I have not only made a few major life decisions, but also completed (virtually) all of my coursework to make me a "Master." :) For our Capstone course, we each had to give a 30-minute presentation response to a case study (that was provided to us earlier this semester) and then be prepared to answer about 15 minutes of direct questioning. If I can get my presentation to post, then I will put it on the site. In the meantime, its enough to know that it was about free speech, sexual harassment and use of pornography on state university computers. I was really proud of the presentation I put together; I thought it turned out really well and though the question portion was difficult, I felt good about it all.
In fact... it so happened that our entire cohort passed their cases on the FIRST TRY! It is the first time this has happened since the program started doing case study finals and so we were really proud of the entire group! There was a ton of celebrating that night. :)
After that, we had two finals and one (optional) paper. Our Law final was in two parts - the first was a grueling vocabulary test where I handwrote almost eight complete pages of definitions to 40 law terms. The second part happened last Tuesday and it was about 50 true/false questions and then we had to choose 10 of 13 cases and write about them, including: principals, major issue, ultimate decision of the court, and implications for higher ed. administrators. That was another almost 10 full pages of writing - yikes!
The next day was our Stats final. We had a few really fun study sessions, including one in the library that was really productive. The test was still pretty hard, but it all turned out OK, I finished the final feeling pretty confident. Ultimately, I ended up with an A in Statistics, which is C-R-A-Z-Y!!!! WOOHOO!! Back at the midterm, when I couldn't figure out probability and thought I would never understand what we were doing in stats, I would never have thought an A was possible. I'm pretty happy. :)
So, I could be done right now as we speak... but I'm not because I decided to complete the optional Law paper. In order to get an A in Law, we have to write a research paper on an issue in higher education with legal implications. I am writing on spirituality and the growing emphasis in higher ed, and the possible legal ramifications. Right now I'm almost half way through this little paper. I'm hoping to have it finished by tomorrow! Then I'll be done for the school year!
I've had to work a little bit this week, while serving on a search committee for a Coordinator position in my office. I'll work on Monday from about 8:45 - 4pm and then go to a lunch at my office on Tuesday. That will be my last days.
There are a lot of endings these days. A lot of goodbyes. Frank Shushok always reminds us that "Every entry is an exit" or to put it as the song goes "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." I love beginnings, and so I don't mind endings, but it is sure hard to say goodbye to good friends and good experiences.
In the next post I'll put up a couple pics and some notes about recent goodbyes. :)
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I wrote my law research paper on the same thing! It was a fun topic to research!! Good luck!
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