Senior Year

This is my last year of college. The last year of my bachelor's degree. It's taken 6 years, several failed courses (followed by repeats of those courses), countless sleepless nights and ugly cries, but I'm finally at the end. Since this is my senior year, it requires an internship. I think it's quite fitting that my internship is with high school seniors that they are feeling the exact same way that I am. I'm done with school just as much as they are. They're hard to motivate and it's hard to convince them that they need to turn in their work. They've already been accepted to schools such as Harvard and Yale - no, I'm not joking. So, why do they need to hand in a 2 minute speech on their hero?

Along with my senior year are the teaching certification exams I have to take. A friend of mine has been teaching for 7 years and the exams were $50 each when she took them. They're $150 and up now. Since this internship is unpaid, I'm required to find some willing relative to pay for these testing fees. And that relative would be my husband. He works hard to pay the bills for both us just so we can turn around and give the money to testing fees. Kudos, UCF, I'm so glad I pay all of these tuition fees and pay for things I don't need. Like the gym; if I have time to work out, I'm taking that time for a nap. Or to wash my hair or do my dishes. You know, everyday things that I barely have time for between classes, internship, schoolwork, and the 2 days a week I do work just to pay for gas to drive an hour to waste the class talking about someone else's research.

This has turned into a rant, and I'm sorry to the two people that do read this, but I always feel better when I get my feelings down in writing. I feel as though the teaching program is organized very poorly. Especially for the secondary education majors. They want us to pass these tests and say that we need to attend seminars for help, but the seminars are all about elementary education. How and when is this supposed to help me for the English exam? TOTALLY worth the hour drive I spent getting here. 

Now, dear Reader, I don't want you to think I haven't enjoyed my senior year. I've met some great people, made connections at a new high school, figured out what I wanted to get my master's degree in, and am enjoying a blissful first year of marriage. 

But, I'm ready for it to be over.