Hi and Welcome Back!

HI AND WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER BLOG! It has been a long time since we have spoken but we are back at it again only this time I am more prepared and have been living this quarantine lifestyle for a while now. I am so excited to take a mother thesis course to continue working on my project. There are a lot of things I am excited about this semester.

The first being that we have a new president! I am always excited about change and I am loving the initiatives our new president has taken for the university thus far. I must admit that I did not believe at first that campus would even be open this fall (because of COVID -19 of course). Nonetheless, I am glad that campus staff and leadership have taken the necessary precaution to reopen the campus safely for students and provide the resources necessary for us all to get through this. Even though this semester will be unusually different from any other semesters that I have been a student I understand that we are in unprecedented times right now and no plan in 2020 is normal.
Secondly, I am excited about the opportunity that I will have this semester to operate in a realm that I am not very comfortable in. To be honest I am not too thrilled about online learning mainly because I am unable to be around other passionate learners and enjoy the feeling of being a college student on campus. Even so, this new teaching approach will allow me to experience a way of learning that can become the norm in the future, and thus I will be more equipped to delve into technology and communicating through the web. I’ve learned in other classes about connected learning through the internet and this semester I will become competent in this area.
Lastly, I am excited to complete my final semester of grad school! Wow, it feels good to realize that the finish line is closer and more near to me now. I have heard from other previous grad students who have said that the time will fly by swiftly and the semesters will flash before your eyes. Lately, I have been coming to terms with this thought. I often feel like times are really flying by and my graduate career will soon come to an end. With this knowledge, I plan to take with me all the memories I have made with classmates and professors to carry me on to finish the semester strong. When I think back of the experiences I’ve had and will create this fall, I want to be glad that I was a Kean Cougar.

Summer Shenanigans

As the summer comes to an end and classrooms begin to reopen its a sorrowful feeling that warm summer days are going to be behind us and we will have to look forward to dreaded snowstorms and ice cold days. I did, however, have a great summer even with the abnormal conditions that our world is in now.

This summer I wined and dined with the city skyline.