Why is it "Growing Up"?

I suppose I should probably explain why I called this blog "Growing Up".

However old I was I could never really picture myself being a real adult, and actual grown up. Even once I started college I couldn't think of what I would actually do once I was out of it.

I started getting my undergrad at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in fall 2007. After declaring a History and Broad Field Social Studies double major and half-assing it for two years I took an Introduction to Organizational Communication class that made me decide to switch to a Communication major. Even after the relief and excitement over finding something I loved doing I didn't want to graduate and become a big kid, so I managed to stretch out my classes into staying an extra year in school, and graduating in the spring of 2012. That last year wasn't even enough, so now I'm staying put to get a Master of Arts in Interpersonal Communication, specifically focusing on Health Communication.

While I definitely do not hold the city of Stevens Point dear to my heart I stayed here for several reasons. One is that they decided to pay me to go to school. After paying thousands of dollars of student loans for my undergrad over five years, and now they decide to pay my tuition and then some just for teaching a couple section of the basic Introduction to Public Speaking class. Another financial reason is that I get to keep my job on campus. I have probably the highest paying student job on campus working as the student scheduling manager for UWSP Protective Services: Police and Security. Twice a semester I help my boss make a schedule and then sit on my butt watching TV and doing homework waiting for the phone to ring. It's a cozy gig. The third and probably best reason I'm staying here for a bit is that I finally have an awesome boyfriend who is back from Iraq for the third time and will finish his undergrad here about the same time I graduate, again. He's wonderful and I wouldn't want to be away from him for anything!

So essentially these next two years are the last push to get myself out the door into the real world. But then again there's always a PhD....