Summer Time... Living Easy

So I got the same summer job that I had last year again this year... not too bad I guess, pay is not horrible and I can stay on campus (much to my fiancés dismay) for free. I guess this year res life has dumped some of its loyalty to those that have worked for them in the past... looking over the list of employees I see some people who deserve to be on there, and some who don’t, as well as many missing names. Over all I am glad I am done with res life after this year, I had fun while I was here, but I am ready to go my own way; however I do want to have a meeting with Cari (assistant director of res life) at the end of the summer to give her a piece of my mind, respectfully of course.

It is going to be a long summer, with work, going home as often as I can to see Emily and work on wedding plans. Not to mention having to deal with finding a second part time job... Should be good times, and at the end of the summer is the wedding, so at least there is something bright at the end of the road to look forward to. Anyway that’s my update.

Back to Back to Back

Sorry for the delay... I have been less then focused on my blog over the last week, but now that I am back at work I have some time to post again.

So I think I have some idea of where I am going to go from this point, at least with my education. Well the plan before was education with an emphasis in political science and at this point I am going to keep going on that route. For the entire next year I need to take poli sci anyway so I am going to keep plugging away on that and during fall semester I am going to try this teaching program that Josh (Emily's brother-in-law) recommended to me to try and figure out for sure if teaching is what I want to do. If after the program I decide for sure that teaching is out I will just finish up the poli sci and change it from an emphasis to a major. If I follow that route I will be out a semester and a half early too.

So with this plan I am going to be in a lot of poli sci classes over the next year and if I plan to major in it then it does not leave me much time to try and get some internships or volunteer experience, but I am hoping with elections coming around again that I will be ok in that respect.

Although I will admit that I am not all that happy about having three classes on Tuesday/Thursday that are back to back to back (it is the only way I could take the 3 that I need next semester). For a splash of flavor I also get to add Spanish into the mix at some time... which I have not taken since high school.

So yeah, that’s next year, and school. Feel free to let me know what you think.

The reluctant teacher.

So I have had this problem for a while now; what the heck do I want to do with the rest of my life?

Right now as most of you know I am on the Secondary Education/Social Studies path. I have almost 3 years down and still 2 to go. Once or twice I have mused about whether or not I want to be a teacher, at first the question was should I be a history teacher? Which sparked a blog post quite a while back and after it was said and done I decided maybe I would be an economics teacher, then it changed to what it is at right now, political science. The problem however is that I am still having these questions about my future which makes me think maybe it is not what I am going to teach that I have a problem with, but rather teaching itself. This leaves me with a big problem with registration for next semester only 2 weeks away; what do I do with the rest of my life?

The problem is not helped by my not having any idea what I want to do, I look around and so many people have passion for one thing or another (biology, chemistry, theology, engineering) and I just... don't. So yeah that is my problem and with time ticking away I do not really have a solution.

On a side not I am an now a kinda-uncle; congrats to Gina and Josh on their little boy!