Where I go from here.

This week, (which should have been last week) has been uneventful in the eyes of a blogger like myself. I've found myself in a game of questioning what I want to do, and how I want to get there.

Because I love theater I came to UNC to pursue a degree so that I could teach students in high school about theater. I thought that I would minor in earth sciences and be content learning about great playwrights and then learning about the Paleocene, but what I've found out is that I enjoy a wide variety of interests, one of which being geology, but beyond a certain level I find it to be complicated and boring. So in my continuing search for answers I've been trying to decide what to change my minor to, or if I even want/need a minor.

I've considered ESL since teachers today, or shall I say educators need to know how to help the growing number of students who do not grow up in a household where English is the primary language. In looking at this minor though the thought of taking classes that don't fully catch my interest concerns me, especially as just a minor.

For about a month I decided that I would minor in English, to please all of the people who recommended it as a minor, but that negates the fact that I really do not enjoy English enough to do that, and if I were to have to teach an English class I would pity the students who had me.

I considered other minors too, but I keep coming back to whether or not I actually need a minor, or if I will just survive with the theater degree. I just want to teach theater, not English or math or science, but I know that to some degree to find a job I may need it... will I be able to get a job in two years if I don't pick something and just deal?

Crazy decisions like this are what goes through my mind. I want to know what to do, and of course everyone has an opinion, but in the end it is figuring out what I want to do, and what I'll be happy with come May of 2010.

Roll with the Punches

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." Bertolt Brecht

I'm not sure why we each handle change so differently. I'm sure to some extent we all hope that what we work so hard to establish will remain forever, but even so we change our clothes, we change our hairstyles and even change how we treat others, but change never really becomes normal.

This summer especially has been about change. Two of my friends that I met at UNC went off to Graduate school in the last two weeks, a change that will bring new opportunities to them and to me. My job as President of the Resdidence Hall Association is all about change right now. Changing how our office looks, changing a logo, changing advisors, changing the day we meet. Even our University is changing. In August the new Residence Hall- South will open with new technology in the place of the loved McCowen Hall.

So I guess everything is all about moving on, and moving forward, especially now. Change in college is common, and getting used to things changing is something that takes time and a realizing that college is just a stepping stone between life as a child in grade/high school and becoming an adult, which is the real change that takes place. Someone once said you just have to "roll with the punches" so I guess I'll just keep on rolling and take change as an opportunity to revise my thinking and learn something, maybe a little change is just what I need. :)

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The Green, Green Grass

I love Greeley in the summer. It is by far one of my favorite things about UNC. Seeing all of the grass turn green and the excitement that‘s on every inch of campus. Seeing the hundreds of new freshman coming to orientation and the completion of the new residence hall, it’s a pretty amazing place to be any time of year, but especially during the summer. I remember the first time I saw UNC in the summer. It was my orientation in June 2006. It was hot and I remember thinking how glad I was that there was air conditioning. When I moved in to McCowen Hall in August of 2006 for Lead On, college became a reality and I was definitely nervous, or anxious or just really excited.

A little bit about myself: I’m a junior Theatre Arts major with an emphasis in Secondary Education, and will have a minor some time soon. As a freshman I was the President of the McCowen Hall council, during the year we won for best homecoming float by a residence hall. My sophomore year I was a Resident Assistant in Harrison Hall. I was on 3 south and it was a blast. My residents were awesome and always kept me on my toes. Now going into my junior year I’ve taken on another role. I am the President of the Residence Hall Association. My job entails working to connect all of the residence halls with other halls, campus and the greater Greeley community. I also work at the visitor’s center as a telecounselor.

I guess from here on in I’ll be writing about my experiences I have during the remainder of the summer and throughout the next year. I am excited to be blogging about UNC and hope that it will be interesting, sometimes funny, and helpful to anyone looking at schools.