Graduate from university

Oh, yes. I’m also waiting to hear back from a couple people I’m consulting about my academic and career direction. Lisa at the Ban Righ Centre recommended I see a specific counsellor in Career Services; we’re still playing phone tag. And my OAC summer school English teacher, piano teacher and friend of the family (all the same person) who has always been very supportive told my Mum that she had a bunch of ideas for me; I’m expecting her call on Thursday.

This goal really hasn’t gone anywhere this year. I still don’t know whether I’m returning to this university again next year, attempting some other method of education or simply abandoning the goal for now. I saw the head of Health, Counselling and Disability Services yesterday as a start to some sort of co-ordinated plan for my academic and personal progress. (He hasn’t called back yet re: an appointment with a counsellor.)

As a student with a learning disability and history of mental illness and sleep problems, school has always been a struggle for me. I’ve been in university for six years, and in the past few years I’ve lost the endurance and willpower for that struggle. I feel older and more out of place on campus by the day.

I want a degree in order to get a job, but my current methods aren’t working. I need to figure out how exactly I’m going to do this:
-focus on finishing just one or two courses this year
-attempt to finish all courses this year
-take correspondence/continuing next year, or
-take a term out to improve my health without the distraction of school and then return for a full-time term

...and then take definitive steps toward my goal.