I'm 38 years old and I've just started graduate school for speech-language pathology. I found out about my love for SLP in a very roundabout way.
I started off at college, way back in 1992 as a pre-med major and ended up changing my major 6 times before dropping out of school. I dropped out with a 2.2 gpa and no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I finally returned to (a different) school, still with no idea what I wanted to do with my life but decided that I needed to graduate from college. I ended up graduating with a history degree and maintained over a 3.5 every semester which brought my overall gpa up to a 2.74. Not great, but I graduated.
My degree allowed me to join the Peace Corps twice (Morocco and Tanzania) as well as allowed me to teach English in South Korea for 5 years and travel to other countries during holidays. It was in my final year in South Korea that I decided that I needed to return to school to find a career. A friend suggested that I look into SLP, I researched it and I was hooked. I returned to school Feb. of 2010 and was enrolled at Utah State University's online 2nd bachelor's in communicative disorders and deaf education for that following Fall. I. Loved. It. I knew I had finally found the perfect fit.
I ended up kicking ass at USU and graduated with a 3.94 gpa. I knew I had to really focus at USU because I had an undergrad gpa that would be looked down on by grad schools. I applied to 3 schools, was rejected from 2 and was accepted to one. All it takes is one. :)
So here I am at Eastern Michigan University and I don't think I could have picked a better fit for me.
I like your story. All it takes is one...
ReplyDeletewow your story is so inspiring & very similar to my life.
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