"There are big changes for you, but you will be happy."
When I started my graduate assistantship at Kent State in the late summer of 2011, I received that fortune in a fortune cookie at lunch. I held onto the fortune and it's still up on the wall in my apartment to this day as a reminder.
Anyone who knew me in August 2011 knows that I was a completely different person. I wasn't in a good place, emotionally, and I'm comfortable admitting that. I was unsure of myself, of who I would be, of where I was going. I was lost, confused, and wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I hoped that grad school would hold the answers. I wanted to find what I was meant to do. I had decided to opt out of the job search post-undergrad and instead go into a field I knew nothing about. I was jumping in with both feet, but without looking.
Little did I know how important the journey was about to be.
August 2011 became the craziest, busiest month of my life. I threw myself into the job without looking back, and in doing so I learned so much about myself. I learned that this field was something I've always been meant to do. I went on to the rest of the semester and didn't realize until I had finished the semester how far I had come or how much I had changed.
And I realized one very important fact. I was happy. I was so SO happy.
Coming to grad school was the biggest decision I've ever made in my life. It was a huge change for me. The person who entered this program 2 years ago is not the same person who will be graduating in 23 days (eeeeeee!) and I know that I am so much more confident, competent, and ready to be in this field for the rest of my life.
"There are big changes for you, but you will be happy."
The very same fortune I opened at the beginning of this crazy but wonderful journey.
Fate? Possibly.
I'm excited to see where these changes take me.
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