Feelings...nothing more than.....feelings....

A couple of weeks ago I got on the computer to check my application status for UNR. I logged on to my little admissions web page but the stupid thing just said 'we have received the materials needed in order begin reviewing you application, please allow 5-7 days for processing. I waited a couple more days to check again but it was the same message. Just to see, I followed the links that said 'already admitted'. I entered the info they asked for and lo and behold I was assigned an email and I could sign on to their 'epaws' system.  BUT..... no update on the admissions page, not a letter, nada.  I thought that I must have gotten in, they had my transcripts and all of the courses that transferred figured out, but I needed something in black and white, something that said yes or no. Finally, when I got back here and there was still nothing, I called and left a message..... no response. Then I emailed and when I checked the admissions page the next day, it said this instead: Congratulations you have been admitted to the University of Nevada, Reno.

WOOOHOOO!! HOLY CRAP!!!

Just thinking about it makes the corners of my mouth pull up a bit. It just feels like the right thing. I looked at so many different options: MSWs, teacher credential programs, Geography MA's, Environmental Science MS's, Applied Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology,  and they just weren't quite right.  I could get accepted to them, I could complete them, but I just couldn't commit to them.

Plus, it's taken me a while to be okay with leaving my very decent paying, reliable, comfortable job/career  to pursue something completely different.  It's been okay doing what I've been doing. I love working with the kids, and I've felt good working in a position that's contributing to society in a very real way. Even if  it wasn't my ideal, doing something that I deem meaningful is very important. (if not, what's the point?) And, given some of the things that have happened during these last couple of years, it seems I was exactly where I needed to be. 

All that said, it's also time for change.