Direction

A couple of weeks ago, one of my closest friends shared that she was starting a personal blog. With her sharing that, I remembered that I had blog. Not that I forgot, I just had not used it since traveling to Tanzania in May. (Hence the last week's post when I realized I had not finished my posts of that trip).  So I am going to revive my blog, with a broader direction.

Directions. Life is full of them. The direction I am going to talk about in this post is career direction.  Before going to France for May for my minor, I was a biochemistry preference major.  However, when I was coming home I was not so sure that was what I wanted to do any more. While at the Gallo-Roman Museum in Lyon, my professor could see how interested I was in the artifacts and asked what my major was and I told him.  He responses with "You know they need people to do the scientific research behind this stuff?" I did know that, the thought just had not ever occurred to me, so my response was "oh...yea."  That one question was all I needed to start a new journey.

While my advisor was on sabbatical in the fall when classes resumed, I began to plan and research.  I decided to attempt to create my own major...in archaeology studies.  When he was back in January, I met with him.  He was supportive of my decision and we began the official process.  In March, I turned in a packet to the Dean of Faculty's office with a concept map and list of classes I would take as my individual major, a rationale with sources, a sheet showing how I would fulfill the essential education requirements, and my advisor's signature, along with two other signatures of professors that I asked to be additional advisor.  The decision would be made by the Education Polices Committee.

During finals week, one of the professors going to Tanzania, who sits on the committee, told me that the committee had approved my individualized major.  When school started this year, I was officially an individualized major in archaeology studies.  While it has been and will continue to be a lot of work, it will be worth it because I feel I am headed in the right direction for what I want to do.