I was a pretty good student in high school. I graduated with a 3.78, which was not too shabby considering I switched from a private school to a public school my Sophomore year and then screwed around my Junior year. I wanted to be an Architectural Engineer. My plans were to go to OSU but I lived in the Eastern part of the state and my family was just not that well off. My secondary plan was to go to OSU-Okmulgee, get an associates in drafting, and then work my way through school to get my bachelor's. I met my first husband and ended up dropping out after four semesters. A divorce, another marriage, a child, and another divorce later, I was a 26 year-old single mom. I decided I wanted to provide my child with a stable income and home so I decided to go back to school to finish my associates. I worked 40 hours a week and took six hours every semester. It took me four years to get my degree, but I finally did. By this time I had gotten married again. I was pretty happy, we were stable, and I loved what I was doing, or I thought I did. I was working for a very high profile architect in Oklahoma City, but after four years, I just didn't feel like it was fulfilling me anymore. I honestly went through four jobs in the next four years.
I first decided to go back to school to get a degree in Interior Design. I honestly thought it would be easy, I pretty much knew what I was doing because it was basically what I did when I worked for the architect, and I figured the money wouldn't be too bad either. Half way through the semester (All A's!) I just felt like it was TOO easy. It wasn't challenging anymore and it was starting to not be that much fun. At that point I figured if I was going to go back to college at 35, I might as well do something that was challenging and what I really, really wanted to do with the rest of my life. I sat down and really thought through what I really loved and realized that it was Archaeology. I found a program at The University of Oklahoma. I applied and was accepted for the Spring 2014!
I quickly realized that a more challenging career choice meant that I had to actually study and use my brain instead of using my drawing talents. Over the last two years I have realized that I really should have sought out help early on about how to study organize myself, and take notes and also how to do all of this while working and taking care of my family. I think I finally have some of it worked out, I've maintained a 3.4, but I know that i could do much better.
My thoughts are to start a sort of sorority/group of adult students with children. I don't know what my specific plans are yet, but I'm hoping to massage those out over the summer semester. Stay tuned!
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