Hooding

I haven't talked much about my master's degree I started before I got pregnant with McCovey and it was a tad hard to get back into the swing of things! It is kind of a funny story about how I decided to go into the degree. So it is called a Masters in Education in Instructional Technology. So in my head, I thought it meant learning how technology affects instruction and make it better. But it is really about how to instruct online. I seriously had the worst interview of my like to get into the program. Alex took me cause it was at ISU. I laughed and said I will never get in that was horrible! Well apparently they were desperate and I got in! I did fairly well I got As in all of my classes I would not say that I put a ton of effort into it by I did learn. Online classes are super hard for me to pay attention and all of my classes were online!! Except for one summer class, Educational Stats! So after I had McCovey I tried really hard to get my advisor to tell me what I needed to do to get my project ready while my baby didn't do much and I had time to work on it. He seriously would give me no help. Then when I tried to do my project he was like do you have this done (something I had never heard of ) or this (once again never heard of it). I would get so frustrated because he would say set it up this way and then the next time I talked to him he would be like why is it like this and I wouldn't have an answer except for you said to do it! I would cry every time I would talk to him. I didn't have a rubric or any instructions except and very basic outline and an example in which I wasn't supposed to follow the format! I cried every time I got off the phone from him. I tried to get him to meet with me but he wouldn't email me back. I would not have gotten through this without my friends Elaine, Stefaine, Natalie, and of course Dave! I really wanted to be hooded. I figured it was a very expensive Harry Potter costume but I had worked so hard for it! One of the problems with my paper was I kept doing what my teacher asked and then I would turn it in thinking it was done. Then he was like add this part and change this and why isn't this in here. Seriously I think I earned my Master's just because I had to deal with him and I busted my but the last 7 months! Well on the night of the hooding I thought I would be defending in two weeks and then be done! I was so excited to be done and we were having an almost graduated party cause I wouldn't technically be done from two weeks. Since my advisor would be hooding me I knew I could talk to him and get the date set! The good part is I didn't talk to him till the end!

Here we are Marching into the Auditorium! 

Here I am!

They were sitting in the corner! They almost didn't get seats because people didn't follow the only 4 guess rules!

This is me about to get hooded! It was funny because they kept saying make sure you bend at the knees then my advisor was like well probably not you. But I still bent just in case.

Here it is!!!

My four cause I follow the rules!

So I ran into my professor at the end and he pretty much said that my paper sucked and I needed to take summer school and rewrite it and graduate in August! So after bawling to my family, I sucked it up for photos!

My Love!

He was so supportive through it all.

I love my parents! They are always supportive! 

And my best friend! She was amazing and I love her for it! She watched McCovey while I had classes and homework! She was the best!

The good news is that even thought I wanted to give up I did finish my paper! I didn't want to at this point I was ready to give up but there were two things that made me push through it I didn't want to give up on it for McCovey I wanted to set the example of pushing through. The second one was Dave said that I couldn't go to Disney World if I didn't finish. Dave said that he would take me anywhere and I said I want to go to Disney World. So we planned to go for my birthday!