2015: Transitions, School, & Life Changes

2015...
My did the year fly by!
The year started out soon after I arrived back from my semester abroad in Italy. In January, I got a job at the Autism Society of NC working as a community skills instructor and I am very glad I got to experience that! At the beginning of the year, I was anxiously waiting for the replies from grad schools on whether or not I would receive the opportunity to study to be an occupational therapist. In the meantime, I continued at Meredith College part time in the spring since it was my last semester before I graduated college! During the semester, I worked on finishing up my senior thesis and at the end, I presented it at Meredith's CSA Day and at the annual Carolina's Psychology Conference.
Merely a week and a half before May 9th, I received my acceptance letter from MUSC and I was thrilled to be given the opportunity and immediately accepted the offer! That gave me exactly two weeks to graduate from college, throw a graduation party, give my two weeks notice at ASNC, pack up my things, find a new apartment, move from Raleigh to Charleston, and do all the other necessary things when starting a new school! Needless to say, I was frantically busy trying to plan the next two years of my life in less than a couple weeks. May 9th came and went in a blur and now I can proudly say that I have my Bachelors in Psychology! I found a place in Charleston and the move went smoothly. I was all but ready to start my new chapter May 20th at MUSC. Let me just say, I have never been so challenged academically ever before in my life. It is an excellent program, yet very challenging. I absolutely love the people I met and became friends with while in Charleston! My MUSC peeps will forever hold a special place in my heart! That is why I was so heartbroken to have to leave beautiful Chucktown. Fate, God, Destiny, whatever you believe in, had to have played a role in my life at that time. One week prior to leaving the wonderful program at MUSC, I was accepted to the MSOT program at ECU. ECU was originally my number one choice which I was wait-listed at until I received a rejection email (I'm assuming the spots were then full) and then by a stroke of luck, a spot must have become available because I got the email I was accepted. I will miss the people I met in Charleston and I hope to visit sometime soon!

So, again, I pack up and move. This time, I had slightly more notice. A whole 3 weeks to do everything again before the new program started! I succeeded in again finding a new place to stay, moving, and starting a new program all over again. #OT school take two.


Meg

Charleston!

On Friday, May 15th I made the move to beautiful Charleston, SC! (Fun Fact: I was actually born here in Chucktown, so maybe it's more like I'm coming home for the first time.) As many of you know, I was accepted into the Medical University of South Carolina's Occupational Therapy program! I am thrilled to be a part of this amazing program and not to mention to now live in this extraordinary city!

A couple weeks before graduating Meredith College on May 9th, I still had no idea where I would be or what I would do after I graduate. Fortunately, on April 29th I got the email from MUSC notifying me of my acceptance! I had to reread it twice to make sure it was true! So, basically in about 2 weeks I finished up my last year of college and senior research thesis, graduated, and moved to a different state on top of all the other things going on in life!  Needless to say, it was a positive stressful time.

For all of you that have heard how busy life is in grad school, it is no joke. I had no idea how different graduate school is from undergrad. I have much higher expectations in class and a much much larger course load. Anatomy is about to be the death of me.