Today I was bored, and missing Bethel. I miss all the students and the school year starting. It's the first year (EVER, ok... since I was 4) that I've been away from the hussle and bussle of the start of school. I miss it. All the incoming students are so nervous about what they are going to find at college. You get to meet all kinds of new people, and being 'in charge' the last few years I've known that my impression is sometimes one of the first that these new students have at college. I've cherished that ability to try and get them comfortable, at ease, with moving away from home.
So I decided to look up the jobs available at Seattle Pacific University... they don't have any I'd be currently interested in. So I looked up all the college in the area and at all their openings - no go. Most schools focus their hiring in the early summer, unfortunately. So I starting thinking about how it'd be fun to take a class in preparation of getting a Master's. I went to the University of Washington (Seattle) website to see what they were offering. There was one class, but I finally figured out it would cost me $1,200+ to take it. Being a barista currently there isn't any way I can afford that. And I don't think you can get financial aid unless you are actually ENROLLED as a student.
But what to do instead with all my spare time? Perhaps I could take the GREs so I could start my Master's Program next year? And perhaps I could take some language classes? I am still thinking about all of this, but pretty much everybody has told me that I SHOULD get a Master's, and what better way to be involved in a college than to be a teacher? I could make students do all the projects I hated! Plus I am in a position where I make NO money, maybe they'd have pity on me and give me more financial aid then. Probably not, but I can always dream.
So please drop a line and tell me what I should do, because if you all think I am dumb it wouldn't pay for me to go to college to become a teacher.
Posted by 10lees at August 17, 2004 12:55 PM