get my associates

In the mail yesterday! Graduated in December! As an Administrative Assistant!
Sweet deal! And I’m well on my way to my second, but I’m going to list that in a separate goal.

For my first two associates. Deadline was today and I did it Monday. So I will wait to see if I was approved just yet or not.

Cannot graduate this summer after all.. I must wait for a class to roll back around to my campus in Fall 2011. Therefore, I want to work towards a THIRD associates, then. i went to a counselor today and found out that my school only allows us to have two associates programs under my name. I was told that I could go ahead and work towards my third anyway, and then add it to my name when I graduate from one of the other two (or in my case, both). However, if the program changes drastically, without my name being in it, I wouldn’t be “grandfathered” into the changes. It’s a toss-up. I really love the idea of having three associates, though, and my parents had said that I could… Well we will see, I guess..

This semester is going to be a bit of a challenge. I’m taking what is said to be, by everyone who has gone through the program, and the teachers themselves, the hardest [non-general]class of my program. Administrative Office Procedures. I’m very nervous that I won’t get through it, but with a bit of struggling, and support from my classmates, I know I can do it. Then everything that is left will seem fairly easy to me, which is a great thing. After this semester, I will have a total of 18 credit hours left to take in order to get both associates (and three of those are an elective, and three are my actual internship). I would love to get done in the spring and start job hunting, but if worse comes to worse, I will take it a bit easier and get done in August. I love college, but I’m kinda excited to just get done! (Guess it doesn’t help that my boyfriend graduated this past summer, and I don’t see any of my other friends at school anymore.)

I’m halfway done to a dual associates (Office Administration and Technology- General // Office Administration and Technology- Legal). I am almost finished with my third semester in college. I will be taking nine credit hours this summer, and have already registered for fall with 17 credit hours. At this rate I should be able to graduate by next summer. I love my school and will be sad to leave it (I’m not planning on transferring but instead, finding a job), but I am indeed ready for the next chapter in my life seeing as everything else has been falling in place (finding the one I want to be with and ready to move on). So yep!