Final Semester

I don’t know how academics do it!

It is the last semester of my master's program, and I am so excited because I am over this shhhhh! Crazy enough, I love learning and education, but my latest decision in programs has been poop! These programs are great for others, but just for me, not even close! I could go into detail, but I wanted to talk about my thesis and the anxiety and excitement it brings me!

My advisor triggered my anxiety, and it was all because she told me I needed to think about and touch my thesis every day! Are you crazy? Was my inner thought response. I'm not going to lie! However, my research is about Black Art Educators in Virginia working in a predominately White field and why they love their job but also their struggles due to them being Black in a predominantly White field. I am so excited because my whole higher educational career has been surrounded by White people, which is what inspired my thesis! Not that it's bad, but it does get tiresome, and you begin to feel like the token student! My project is mainly a photography project, which makes me happy because photography is my happy place.

I want to get my doctorate afterward, but I want to be excited about learning again! Mmm we will see!