Summer Break Has Begun!
It is official: I am now a third year! Whoo hoo!
This past week was the last week of the summer quarter, so we are free for the next month. I won't be able to go home, so my main focus is going to be getting a job. Man, will I be glad when the long hard job search is over.
In the meantime, I found out I was eligible for unemployment, so that's at least some help until I find something else. I'm also working with financial aid to apply for as many scholarships as I can; they have been a great help!
The break is getting off to a busy start. My biggest worry was that I would die from boredom, but I might be in for a few surprises. Hopefully they are good ones. The free time should also give me the chance to see some of my friends in the area and do something I haven't had the chance to do in 6 months... hang out. I actually already did it two times this weekend! Pathetic, I know, but trust me, that's a big step for me.
I also retake my comps this week. I'm being retested only on the portions I was weak on during the first test, and I actually feel ready this time. When I did not pass the practicals in May, I felt awful. I wondered how it would affect me and how I would be viewed as a student. Since then, I've been meeting with each professor every week and going over everything with a fine tooth comb. As a result, I actually know the "why" and "how" behind many of the concepts I had merely attempted to memorize before.
Ironically, I feel a lot more confident about my knowledge and abilities as a future audiologist. Go figure--that 4th year student I spoke with a few weeks back was right!