My Happiness Meter is Off the Charts!
I got up this morning and checked my grades and I got a 4.0 this semester! I was so thrilled that I decided to call my grandma and tell her about it, but I couldn't do that until I was ready to leave for work. I made a point of leaving early so I'd be sure to have time to call. She was equally thrilled. :-)
The whole thing about my GPA is really neat for me because I had just been talking with my roommate about school and how my sophomore year and the beginning of my junior year were completely awful. I had just looked at my academic record and realized that Fall semester of my junior year, I was dangerously close to being placed on academic probation because my grades were so low that semester.
The whole semester was kind of weird. My brothers got married and I broke my foot and there was the business of people invading my family on multiple levels. It seemed as if more than my foot was broken. I felt like my life was falling apart.
At the end of the semester, I realized that I was doing the wrong thing. I changed my major the next semester. I still took the same classes I had been signed up for the next semester, but it was as if just declaring another major flipped an invisible switch and things started to fall into place.
I made the decision on a whim, but it turned out that the "whim" was exactly what I needed to be doing and it changed everything. It was like I had moved into the grace of God with that decision -- I went from almost failing to a 3.7 in one semester. You can only do that if it's God..... I swear....
This semester has been the busiest of any semester. I worked two jobs on top of 12 credits, an internship and five weekly extracurricular activities. And I still managed to get a 4.0.... It's a miracle....
And I'm graduating in four months and fifteen days. Oh my gosh.....
~MJ
The whole thing about my GPA is really neat for me because I had just been talking with my roommate about school and how my sophomore year and the beginning of my junior year were completely awful. I had just looked at my academic record and realized that Fall semester of my junior year, I was dangerously close to being placed on academic probation because my grades were so low that semester.
The whole semester was kind of weird. My brothers got married and I broke my foot and there was the business of people invading my family on multiple levels. It seemed as if more than my foot was broken. I felt like my life was falling apart.
At the end of the semester, I realized that I was doing the wrong thing. I changed my major the next semester. I still took the same classes I had been signed up for the next semester, but it was as if just declaring another major flipped an invisible switch and things started to fall into place.
I made the decision on a whim, but it turned out that the "whim" was exactly what I needed to be doing and it changed everything. It was like I had moved into the grace of God with that decision -- I went from almost failing to a 3.7 in one semester. You can only do that if it's God..... I swear....
This semester has been the busiest of any semester. I worked two jobs on top of 12 credits, an internship and five weekly extracurricular activities. And I still managed to get a 4.0.... It's a miracle....
And I'm graduating in four months and fifteen days. Oh my gosh.....
~MJ
posted by Mari Kate @ 5:49 PM
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