| | Three years I've been here. IUP has become my home, especially when home wasn't home anymore, and thinking about leaving this place breaks my heart. In the next few months I will have to make many choices and some choices will be made for me. I plan to apply to Grad school at IUP and wish on every lucky star that I get in. I can't imagine going anywhere else. I love my professors here and I am comfortable with our clinic. I get along with my Speechies and would miss them dearly if I had to leave. I have the grades and the ambition to make it anywhere, but I am not the type of person that talks openly in class. Being shy makes it extremely hard to talk in class. My professors know my name, but they don't know "me." This is one of the major factors that they look at when looking at applications for the Grad program. The Speech-Language Pathology program here at IUP gets around 70-80 applications for Fall. They only accept 20 of these students, and IUP graduates are not automatically accepted. We do not get any special treatment. It sucks, but it's life. So I have to decide on other places to go. The only other place around here that I would want to go is Edinboro. They require you to take the GRE's to get in, and I haven't taken them. Perhaps over Winter Break I will take that test, along with the Praxis II exam. Oy. So much to do in such a short amount of time.
Another thing I have to keep in mind is what I want to do when I actually have my Master's degree and head out into the real world. Yes, I do realize that I have 3 more years before reality sets in, but I have no idea what way I'm leaning. Ever since I looked into the Speech program here I thought that being a Speech coach and doing accent modifications would be a dream job. I could work with people with foreign accents to get their accents and speech up to par with native English speakers. Or, for the cool job, I could work with celebrities or singers in Los Angeles doing dialect or accent modifications, and hygeine therapy. I would kick some serious ass at that, so I am going to look into getting an internship out in California and live with my uncle for awhile, maybe over summer. If that doesn't work out, I will stick with my original plan and get my teacher certification and work in the school setting. I've always wanted to work with kids. I was actually thinking that I could do the Speech Teacher thing during school time and do Speech coaching on the side and during the summertime.
There are just so many things to think about and I am the worst decision maker of life. This should be good...
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