I'm a Master...

I have Graduated from Baylor University with my Master of Science in Education in Student Affairs Administration! (Click below for photo albums of my hooding and graduation.)

I have yet to secure a job, although I have a few strong leads. This has been an amazing journey and I appreciate all of your support throughout. I look forward to blogging about my future. It's so bright you know, -I gotta wear shades.

Any and all graduation gifts are gladly accepted. Ha!




Hooding Ceremony Photo Albums:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

Graduation Ceremony Photo Albums:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

I'm graduating!!!!

SO, now that the papers and exams are FINALLY complete- I can breathe AND blog.
I am about to be a MASTER. My plan- get a job and buy myself a pipe to celebrate. (You just SEEM like a Master when you're smoking a pipe.)

Here's the skinny- I graduate May 17th from Baylor University with a MSed in Student Affairs Administration. I passed my comprehensive case study on the first go round (My cohort was the first in Baylor history to all pass on the first round.)

Job search:
I have been on two on campus interviews. One of those decisions is still pending while the other gave me the boot.
I have a phone interview scheduled for next week and another on campus interview scheduled for the week after graduation. Plus I am applying-applying-applying!!!


Prayer:
Please pray that I finish my assistantship with integrity (I have 7 hours left).
Please pray that I find a part time job in the interim, because I have bills to pay AND my student loans start again.
Please pray that God allows me to find a position that utilizes my strengths and allows me to be financially secure and helps me to be developed as a professional.


Let me know if there is any praying I can do for you.

I do realize that it has been a while since my last post. I truly am sorry, but I truly am busy.

My capstone case study presentation is due on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008. This is the culminating experience for my graduate program that determines whether I pass or fail. I will pass of course, however there is all this added pressure to make it the best presentation I have ever given. I met with my advisor yesterday and my power point template got the big thumbs down but my content did not. Hey, you win some and you lose some.

I have had two on-campus interviews for various job opportunities and I have turned down one interview offer due to my lack of funds. I have a few leads and I will have a job. I just don't know where and when.

Oh, and I'm absolutely in love with my boyfriend and this video.

Coming back with incense, bells and whistles

Listen up. I'm going to try to do the blog thing again. I've realized my blog-phobia. I'm just afraid no one will read it. My friend Brian has the best blog
and I know mine cannot live up to his, BUT alas, this is no longer a fear for me. I will write my blog and maybe someone will read it. And maybe someone will like it.



I went to the Greek Orthodox Church today in Waco-alone. I was reminded of Julien's story about the icon painter calling for "lots and lots of varnish." As I sat, er, stood during the service trying to stiffle my coughs from the incense, I was strangely comfortable there. I couldn't find the liturgy in the book, so I just got to 'experience' those around me worshiping. It was really interesting. I felt like I was meeting brothers and sisters that I had never known and getting to share is something that they find so dear, but I find so different felt so at 'home.'

I was grieved to not get to take part in the Eucharistic ceremony, but I did take some Fellowship bread at the conclusion of the service (I chose not to kiss the priest's hand). Afterwards they had a time of food, where I got to eat good salad and soup. I sat next to a law student who spoke of examinations, not exams. He was giving a friend a recipie for hungarian goulash- a dish that I am very familiar with.

I forced myself to stay and allow everyone to meet me, b/c that is what the priest requested of the guests at the conclusion of the service.

I'm realizing that I am comfortable being me and I am comfortable with you being you.