Our Suburban Farm: Graduation Day! WooHoo!

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Graduation Day! WooHoo!

Yesterday evening I graduated with my Master's of Science in Early Childhood Education! Woo! Hoo!

I've actually had quite the long and convoluted process to get here, so I am so thrilled to have finished! I started in fall 2007 at NIU doing my Master's and Early Childhood (EC) teaching certificate. After a semester, I found out I could transfer to National-Louis and finish the program much faster, so I did that. I started taking classes at NLU but then soon found that catch. NLU was requiring that I take undergrad classes to finish my certificate. They said it was state requirements because my Bachelor's didn't have enough English or History. Whatever! NIU wasn't going to require them! So I putzed around for some time taking these English classes and then CLEPing out of the others.

THEN my job changed and I needed my EC Teaching Certificate ASAP. So...I put the Master's on hold and just took the classes I needed for the Certificate. Well then I needed the EC Special Ed Approval, so I took the classes and test I needed for THAT. After that I was ready to finish my Master's again. I decided to transfer back to NIU because they were much more flexible and willing to work with me. So in summer 2011 I transferred back to NIU, they accepted most of my credit hours, and I took classes in the summer, fall and winter. This winter I had class twice a week and it was A LOT. Spending 4 hours a week just driving to and from class almost killed me! But I finished! I was actually really worried that one of my classes was going to ruin my 4.0 GPA, but I just got an email this morning that I got a 101.5 in the class so now Adam is never going to listen to me worry again.

Graduation was Friday night!