finish my masters degree

i don’t have my diploma in hand yet, but i got my final grade in my last class, and all i need now is for that and my ‘pass’ for my internship to be reported to the registrar, and i am done. now i just have to figure out what it is i really want to do with my life :)

i know i’m going to be totally stressed out this month, but man, once it’s all said and done, i am going to be so happy. yay!

i turned in my final for my accounting class yesterday. thank goodness that’s over with. now, all i’ve got left is one more class (which might actually be interesting and uesful) and a hnadful of speaker luncheons and “other events” and i’m done, finito, stick a fork in me. yessssss.

and it’s kind of kicking my butt. there is sooo much reading to do. i would not have thought that with either class i’m taking this semester (corporate financial reporting and financial analysis for corps). for better or for worse, the finance class is only 1.5 hours and ends on october 5. i can’t believe that’s only two weeks away – yikes! where does the time go? anyway, in a roundabout way, this is also my explanation for why i haven’t been on this site in so damn long. i feel bad; i must apologize. it is never my intent to neglect you wonderful people! i truly am just up to my eyeballs in school work. on the upside, i only have six, count ‘em – 6!, more hours to take after this semester. i’m almost in the home stretch. cheer me on! and you will have my undivided attention thereafter (o.k., after my husband and my cat) :)

..a+, baby!! wow. i am truly amazed with myself (not to sound arrogant). it was a tough six weeks, and i worked my ass off, so i guess i’m just proud that i did it and that i did so well. let’s hear it for boosting my gpa! whoo-hoo!

i’m free! i’m free!!! and it’s good to be back. all in all, i would say it went a lot better than i thought it would. i was putting off taking this class because i thought it was going to be crazy hard, but i guess the timing on this was good, but i really didn’t think it was all that bad. now i just have to sit back and wait for my final grades to show up (fingers crossed). 3-1/2 more classes left and i will be officially done with my master’s degree. i can almost taste it.

is that the kind of job i am in now is pretty much the end of the line for me when it comes to accounting. not in the sense that i’m going to hang up my hat after doing this job for a few years and be done with accounting. that may or may not be true. this has more to do with that if i want to continue in accounting for one reason or another, i think i have to sit for the cpa exam. so, i guess you could say that i’m at a crossroads. i can either finish my master’s, give my employer the three years needed to pay them back, and then figure out something else to do. or, i can sit for the cpa exam and decide where i want to go from here in terms of an accounting career. this has really given me something to think about.

and it’s only 10.5!! holy crap, that’s only three 3-credit hour classes and one 1.5-credit hour class. i could easily have this thing knocked out in two semesters. wow. i knew before i started taking this summer class that i had about 12-15 hours left, which is roughly half the program, but when i saw 10.5, this whole thing really came into perspective. i can really do this, i can really finish it, at some point i will be done and i will have my master’s degree. wow.

at least for this class, anyway. a little over one week left and all i have to do is finish my 8-page paper, do my last tax return, write my major tax research file memo (6 pages) and study for my final on the 21st. there is obviously still a lot of work yet to be done, and i will be thankful when it is all done, but it’s going well so far. i just need to keep it up and finish strong. i am so very much looking forward to the break, though, and getting caught up here and everywhere else in my life.

i’ve got a ton of work to do, but so far, i haven’t been watching nearly as much t.v., hubby and i have been eating at the dinner table and not in front of the t.v., i’ve been more focused (at least on my class, anyway), and i think my handwriting may be getting better from the notes i need to take. now, if i can keep it up, and make sure i get good grades, i’ll be really glad i did this after all.