Guess what, guess what!

Monday was a good day.

At 6 p.m., I was sitting in the courtyard of the Newman Center with some of my closest friends.  I decided to check my e-mail for the 6th time that day, expecting the same result that each previous log-in had yielded: an empty inbox.  However, to my pleasant surprise, my inbox was anything but empty.  In fact, it was quite full.  I'm not talking about multitudes of e-mails.  Rather, I am talking about one e-mail that holds multitudes of possibilities.  Let me share with you the first sentence of said e-mail:

"I am pleased to extend you an offer to join the Teach For America 2011 corps!"

After months of applying, filling out forms, doing activities, interviewing, and waiting, I have received the answer I've been searching for, and I couldn't be happier.  For the next two years, I could be making a difference in the lives of elementary school children in Camden, New Jersey as a Teach For America corps member!

As you can imagine, receiving this news was amazing.  And what was equally as amazing was sharing my celebration with my best friends.  Now, I can look forward to graduation with excitement.  Although I am still sad to be leaving the place I've called home for the past four years, I will be experiencing the opportunity of a lifetime right around the corner! 

I can sense that this blog could very well turn into a collection of stories about my day-to-day interactions with children, and this could not excite me more. 

I'd rather have change in my pocket.

If I had a dime for every time I've thought about updating my blog in the past few months, I'd have like 9 dimes. 

So much has happened since my last post that part of me wanted to give up on this "chronicling a year of change" thing. Hence my lack of posts.  After all, in order to truly chronicle all that has happened, I would have to write a novel. From what I understand, blogs aren't supposed to be chapter books.  So why bother?

But no. I can't let this one slide. I have seen far too many personal goals of mine buried under a thick blanket of outward responsibility (i.e., school, work, extracurricular activities, my social life, etc.).  I often wonder why I am my own toughest critic when it comes to my success with all of these things, yet when it comes to my personal health, goals, and growth I always seem to find away to let myself slide.  

Sometimes I joke about having a stomach ulcer by the time I'm 30.  Sometimes it's hard to convince myself that I'm joking.

I'm going to try to keep up with this thing.  Even though I feel like I've fallen behind on my own life, there's no time like the present to start playing catch-up. This blog is going to be my first attempt to follow through with something for myself. In the next few days, I hope to recount some of the major things that have happened within the past few months so that I can move on. After all, moving on seems to be a recurring theme in my life right now. Gotta love change.

For now, I have one month and 10 days left until I graduate. And I hear back from what may very well be my "dream job" on Monday.  Stay tuned.