I wrote this post a few weeks ago while stuck in an airport during a layover.
"The semester came to a close last week and I'm waiting for those last few grades to trickle in. These past few days have given me time to reflect on this past semester. I truly could not have asked for more qualified, caring, and simply wonderful professors. I was also blessed with an absolutely amazing cooperating teacher to observe at the middle school and I have learned so much that I will be able to actually use in the future, which is a rather new feeling for a college student like myself. I honestly could not have asked for a better literacy professor this semester, she was truly fantastic; I loved every second of her class and I just really didn't want to leave when the last session came to a close. She is such a supportive mentor and I plan to keep in close contact with her over the next year and throughout my first few years of teaching.
This is the first semester in which I actually felt that I was doing what I was meant to do and that I was good at it. My grades even reflected it! That's not new, my grades are usually good, but somehow it was different this semester. Whenever I doubted that I couldn't do it I knew that some one thought I could, and it wasn't just my parents and friends this time, it was my professors and that was really, really nice. I left this semester with a confidence that I certainly didn't have at the end of the last. In December, I certainly had passion, but I now feel like I can actually do it and do it well. Being good at something you love is so gratifying yet terrifying and at the same time completely humbling. Do I feel 100% prepared right now? No, absolutely not and I'm glad that I have another year of school and student teaching to prepare me, but I'm certain that I can get through it, enjoy it, and excel in it."
Since writing this, my final grades were posted (I got all A's!!), I singed up to take my OSAT (I'm nervous), and I fractured my knee cap (more on that later).
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