Yes, I am literally buying time. I decided, with many factors contributing, not to graduate this December and to push my graduation date back to May 2012, which it should have been originally. My Nonprofit advisor ended up being TERRIBLE and completely ruined my plans to have the minor completed in time for my plan to graduate in December. Apparently one of the classes I need is a spring only class so I would not be able to finish it as I only have, well would have had, one fall semester to go. She never should have accepted me into the minor! Dumb. Anyways, then I was completely stressed out about what to do with my time between December and September when whichever grad school program I decide on would begin. Also, without the minor, my transcripts just look awful. There were a lot of problems. I was super stressed but then, after a great conversation with my wonderful daddy, I decided that the best option for me would be to add another minor, which I will get to in a second, and add that last semester on since it wouldn't be costing me that much more in student loans. So now in May I will be graduating with (drum-roll please) a Bachelor's of Arts in Sociology with minors in Nonprofits and... Statistics! Shocking, right? Well the professor I'm doing research with this semester, Professor Emeka, is a stats professor, and he is pretty much the greatest ever. He has been suggesting the minor to me for a while and explained all the practical applications it would have. I was always interested, but didn't have the room for it. Now that I do, I figured why not! People in Social Science tend to fear math, but stats is a huge part of it as that is how we prove anything in our research. It's a really good thing to have with my degree. Now I don't have to worry about my transcript because they will look awesome, and all I have to do is decide what I want to do after I graduate. Hooray! God really answered a lot of prayers with that one.
In other news, and this is the news you will really want to hear, there is a new man in the life of
Ciarra! His name is Michael and we met at LCM. He's kind of fantastic. He met the parents and passed with flying colors, now Saturday he is meeting the Faz family... we'll see how that goes! I'm very excited to bring him to the family, he's quite a special one. He took me to the beach Friday and Saturday of last weekend, Saturday he attempted to teach me how to surf which may or may not have been successful, I did my best and need to go again for sure to practice.
Now what else? Easter! Technically it is Easter right now (12:07 AM), so Happy Easter! He is risen, indeed. Plans for today are Sonrise service with LCM on the beach at 6:30 (which means I should get to bed soon!) then my mom and Bradley are coming down to decorate eggs and have lunch and whatnot. Should be a good one, hope the same is true for you :)
