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Soror the411, sometimes you amaze me how you just hit it right on the head with the things you write on this forum. So much, if not all, of your post is so true.
Hey you all, I almost threw in the towel. I will have 9 more hours left towards my master's after this semester. I'm working on my thesis proposal now. After changing my topic a zillion times, trying to narrow and/or adjust my topic, and having my advisor write "VU" (Very Unexceptable) on the top of my paper, I was discouraged to the point of tears. Grad school is NO joke, but as the411 said, for a career in higher ed, it's necessary and darn near mandatory.
My post college experience involved communications, public relations, media relations, writing, teaching, management, and speaking with some student involvement. My constant prayer is "Lord, just continue to guide me in the direction that will be pleasing to you." He's got something in store for me.
But anyway, back to my problem, my thesis. I know that there is a problem with students, mainly freshmen, not getting the information or accurate information they need to help with them during their first year of college so that they may return to complete their degree. I just have to prove this and prove that there is a problem in communication during the freshmen orientation process. But this was not how I put it on paper...I was all over the place with the issue and my advisor wrote "VU" real big. But this just got me motivated even more.
I'm not a counselor, I'm a communicologist. While I am indeed interested in student affairs, I'm more interested in the communication process of student affairs and if what needs to be communicated to students is indeed being done. I've got my work cut out for me. Pray for me because I thought I would get out in May 2001, but it's looking more like August 2001.
To be honest with you, there needs to be more career counselors instead of career placement counselors..there is a difference.
Good luck to all of you who have decisions to make...that's what makes you stronger.
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