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Melissa's Blog
April 09, 2007
Plan B
Wow! I was just browsing the web and saw that my blog is up. I had no idea it was up and running and I am sorry that I have failed to post any messages. Now it is the end of the semester and I am about to graduate. What a windy road it has been!
In my first blog I had mentioned how I was hoping to be admitted to the Clinical Psychology program at Vanderbilt. Well…I was rejected from all 5 graduate school programs that I applied to. Talk about feeling like a loser for a while! I scraped myself up off the floor and tried to make a plan B knowing that my rejection to grad school wasn’t quite the worst thing that could happen to me considering that I’m a married mother of four who was going to uproot the family if admitted, but still it’s a bummer I must admit.
At first I felt that all my hard work and extra curricular activities were all for nothing, but then I realized that I have gained so much from everything I have done. My experience as a research assistant both at IU Southeast and at the University of Louisville as an undergraduate qualified me for a nice paying job at a local evaluation center helping parents, teachers, and children with Autism. This is the work I was hoping to do once I completed graduate school. I had hoped to do it with a PhD and making the big bucks, but it’s something that I feel so passionately about that the money really isn’t the issue therefore I will happily work as an assistant in the field for a while until I figure out if and how to get the degree that I need to continue working in this context.
