ZAPPED! Awesome Zap on a REALLY BAD week!- UPDATE 5/5
Yesterday I came home to find an envelope from an address I recognized but there was no name. I also wasn't expecting anything from this person, so I was a little surprised. I opened the package to find this:
Pin 79960: DisneyStore.com - Autumn Tinker Bell Set - Tinker Bell and a Stack of School Books Only
What a wonderful gift that I appreciate so much! It is a gorgeous pin...REALLY
I started crying because I really very much appreciate what this person(I don't know if she wants me to say her name since she didn't sign the note she wrote me) did...VERY much, but it was a bittersweet happiness. I wanted this pin because it is my last semester at college, and I am supposed to be graduating on May 7th with an Early Childhood Education degree(I will be able to teach Pre-K through 3rd grade) and have already passed all the state tests, so I am certified right away as soon as I have a diploma.
Last week, I was supposed to have my final evaluation for my internship on Thursday afternoon. I had left ALL of my important papers and a notebook that is required for me to get my ESOL endorsement(it is a compilation of all of the graded work from every class I have taken at UCF that relates to the ESOL standards) and also to be able to graduate in my computer bag in my car, thinking it was all safe and knowing I wouldn't forget it if it was already there. Well, I got to school on Thursday morning and turned around to grab my bag out of the backseat. No bag. I ransacked my car...nothing...and the door was unlocked. Someone apparently stole my computer bag thinking there was a computer in it, but luckily I had removed my computer that night to work on a paper. I found out after this that a lot of people around town have had their cars broken into by what seems to be teenagers(taking iPod earphones and leaving check books...). I filed a police report thinking that since I had proof I would be alright and my coordinator would just check things off since I have a 4.0 GPA(since it is graded work in the notebook, I would have had to do it in order to maintain an A in every one of my classes) and obviously have fulfilled every requirement. Well, he did not sign off and said that he had to speak to the director of the entire education program about what should be done.
Well, he called me on Friday afternoon after having spoken to the director, who told him that if I do not have a notebook then I do not graduate. So now I have to put together a notebook that took me 4 years by May 2nd. I would be easy if I could just print off all the assignments and cross-reference the standards with a friend's notebook, but since the assignments have to be graded, and the only ones I had were in the notebook, I have to contact every teacher and try to get my grades. I am making some progress, but I am scared that it is not going to happen. If I cannot do it by May 2nd, then they give me an Incomplete and I have until the 21st. If I do not have it by the 21st, I have to repeat internship and keep trying to get the graded papers. Needless to say, I could pretty much die right now.
And that is why the zap was so amazingly wonderful that I cannot thank her enough, but it would be even more wonderful if I could say for sure that I will be getting a diploma to go along with it!
UPDATE:
I WILL be getting a diploma to go along with the pin! I finished everything up by Monday at 5, which was my deadline to be able to get my diploma when everyone else does. I worked all of last weekend straight through and until the very last second that I had to meet the coordinator on Monday. I took the last couple days to rest, because someone who is almost 8 months pregnant doesn't do all-nighters well anymore, and now I am trying to get my life back in order after dropping everything to work on the stuff for the deadline.
I honestly did not think I could do it, but I did! I am so unbelievably happy!
So now, if I owe you pins, I have already gotten some of them out today and the rest will go out by Monday! I have turned my TA back on and will be posting again. I was able to check the forum from my BlackBerry while working hard on my stuff, but it was only for a minute or 2 at a time and I haven't really been able to respond to anyone's PMs or anything, so if I need to respond to you, I plan on doing so very soon.
Please bear with me as I get back on track, and I REALLY appreciate the patience those of you who are waiting on me have had!!!!!
Woohoo! I am graduating from UCF this weekend!!!!! I am going to be the first in my family to EVER graduate college- immediate and extended!
Pin 79960: DisneyStore.com - Autumn Tinker Bell Set - Tinker Bell and a Stack of School Books Only
What a wonderful gift that I appreciate so much! It is a gorgeous pin...REALLY
I started crying because I really very much appreciate what this person(I don't know if she wants me to say her name since she didn't sign the note she wrote me) did...VERY much, but it was a bittersweet happiness. I wanted this pin because it is my last semester at college, and I am supposed to be graduating on May 7th with an Early Childhood Education degree(I will be able to teach Pre-K through 3rd grade) and have already passed all the state tests, so I am certified right away as soon as I have a diploma.
Last week, I was supposed to have my final evaluation for my internship on Thursday afternoon. I had left ALL of my important papers and a notebook that is required for me to get my ESOL endorsement(it is a compilation of all of the graded work from every class I have taken at UCF that relates to the ESOL standards) and also to be able to graduate in my computer bag in my car, thinking it was all safe and knowing I wouldn't forget it if it was already there. Well, I got to school on Thursday morning and turned around to grab my bag out of the backseat. No bag. I ransacked my car...nothing...and the door was unlocked. Someone apparently stole my computer bag thinking there was a computer in it, but luckily I had removed my computer that night to work on a paper. I found out after this that a lot of people around town have had their cars broken into by what seems to be teenagers(taking iPod earphones and leaving check books...). I filed a police report thinking that since I had proof I would be alright and my coordinator would just check things off since I have a 4.0 GPA(since it is graded work in the notebook, I would have had to do it in order to maintain an A in every one of my classes) and obviously have fulfilled every requirement. Well, he did not sign off and said that he had to speak to the director of the entire education program about what should be done.
Well, he called me on Friday afternoon after having spoken to the director, who told him that if I do not have a notebook then I do not graduate. So now I have to put together a notebook that took me 4 years by May 2nd. I would be easy if I could just print off all the assignments and cross-reference the standards with a friend's notebook, but since the assignments have to be graded, and the only ones I had were in the notebook, I have to contact every teacher and try to get my grades. I am making some progress, but I am scared that it is not going to happen. If I cannot do it by May 2nd, then they give me an Incomplete and I have until the 21st. If I do not have it by the 21st, I have to repeat internship and keep trying to get the graded papers. Needless to say, I could pretty much die right now.
And that is why the zap was so amazingly wonderful that I cannot thank her enough, but it would be even more wonderful if I could say for sure that I will be getting a diploma to go along with it!
UPDATE:
I WILL be getting a diploma to go along with the pin! I finished everything up by Monday at 5, which was my deadline to be able to get my diploma when everyone else does. I worked all of last weekend straight through and until the very last second that I had to meet the coordinator on Monday. I took the last couple days to rest, because someone who is almost 8 months pregnant doesn't do all-nighters well anymore, and now I am trying to get my life back in order after dropping everything to work on the stuff for the deadline.
I honestly did not think I could do it, but I did! I am so unbelievably happy!
So now, if I owe you pins, I have already gotten some of them out today and the rest will go out by Monday! I have turned my TA back on and will be posting again. I was able to check the forum from my BlackBerry while working hard on my stuff, but it was only for a minute or 2 at a time and I haven't really been able to respond to anyone's PMs or anything, so if I need to respond to you, I plan on doing so very soon.
Please bear with me as I get back on track, and I REALLY appreciate the patience those of you who are waiting on me have had!!!!!
Woohoo! I am graduating from UCF this weekend!!!!! I am going to be the first in my family to EVER graduate college- immediate and extended!
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