Our undergraduate is complete, we have our bachelor's degrees, well they are in the mail, so what now? Friends you once had are all going their separate ways and attempting to find their destiny. Well as you may or may not know, Lauren has been accepted into VCU’s Education Counseling Master’s program. I still have to take my GRE test and apply to ODU, VCU, and GMU for Sociology. Also you may or may not know we have made the decision to move to Richmond.
My family and Lauren will be in Richmond, and depending on what happens with my graduate school acceptance, I might be using Richmond as a home base. I don’t know exactly what is going to happen, that’s part of the adventure I guess. If I get accepted and decide to attend George Mason in NOVA (northern Virginia for you out-of-staters), I might take a semester or so of online classes then possibly move to NOVA. If I am accepted and decide to attend VCU, obviously I will stay in Richmond. As far as ODU goes, I don’t know what I will do. I guess maybe it’s because I haven’t moved away from Norfolk yet, but as of right now I don’t feel like moving back here.
It might seem to some people that one of us (Lauren or myself) is following the other. In a sense that is true, but I'm starting to see it more in long term. We both have similar and independent reasons for moving to Richmond. We both like the idea of moving away from O.D.U. for a change of environment and diversity. This is not to say that O.D.U. or the people here are bad, but rather just going somewhere different and getting a change of scenery so to speak. Trying my best to speak for her, Lauren wants to go to V.C.U. for the program they offer and try something new. I want to move back to Richmond for many reasons, but one of them is that Richmond has become somewhat of a hometown for me. I believe part of this is because so much of my maturity happened while living in Richmond.
Another major part of my decision for moving back to Richmond is because of my family. It has been fine living in Norfolk visiting the family every other month or so, but I’m at a point right now in my life that I would like to be close to them if possible. My bro-in-law’s soccer contract is up after this season and there is the possibility of relocating therefore, I would like to spend as much time with them as possible.
Life is very interesting. Sometimes you do things that you normally wouldn’t do and they end up being the best and most influential things in your life. I don’t know exactly what my future plans are for graduate school, but I do know that if you told me two years ago that I would be applying to grad school I would have laughed at you. Sometimes life will take you to unexpected places. Again, say 5 years ago, I never thought I would be living in Norfolk Virginia of all places and have a Bachelor’s degree. Maybe what I am trying to get at is, life takes you places you might not originally imagine, but I think they key is to continue to work hard and try to better yourself everyday and great things will come to you.
P.S. For all you “critics”, you know who you are, Lauren, just know that I do actually write bloggs about once a week, but I don’t necessarily post all of them. I guess I’m not a completely “open blogger” yet. At times I feel like I should not share everything about me to the world. Plus I prefer to share more in face-to-face conversations.
The End… for now
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