It’s been an entire calendar month since I blogged. I can’t let August get away with nothing on the books, now can I?
Before I get on to what I planned to write about, I will say that Tuesday is September 1. You can expect to see the normal routine of baseball related blog posts that come about this time every year. It’s even more exciting now that the Giants are legitimate playoff contenders for the NL Wild Card. I love me some baseball.
Grad school? What? Tomorrow. I officially start my Master’s program in Criminology tomorrow at WKU. It’s all online, so no moving required. I kind of did this suddenly. It wasn’t something I planned to do at this point. In fact, three months ago, I don’t even think the thought had crossed my mind. But here I am, a few short hours away from becoming a student again.
Why the sudden interest in grad school? Well, it’s like this. I was sitting around one evening thinking about life and all the other important stuff like, What am I doing with my life? When will I get married? Are the Giants really going to make the playoffs or are they just toying with me?. The usual. I also realized that I had set some goals for my life that I hadn’t accomplished. Pretty much none of them. Not that going to grad school was one of them, but it would have probably been a good step. Now, I don’t regret any decisions about my course of life. I think God has a way of putting you where you need to be sometimes, whether you know it or not. But I also realized that of all the crazy ideas I had about my life, and what I wanted to do with it, which could jump all over the board in a matter of seconds, that there was one thing that had remained consistent. That’s my interest in the criminal mind. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why I hadn’t followed through on that and why I had seemingly abandoned it.
Then I remembered working at the Juvenile Detention Center, a.k.a. Juvey Hall. That’s why I abandoned it. My plan was to get a job in law enforcement and I did that. But when I saw the side of it I didn’t like, I had to get out. In the meantime though, my interest in youth programs grew and off I went to California to work with some kids and volunteers, forgetting all about my master plan.
What I didn’t realize at the time is that my interest really hadn’t changed. I think maybe I just needed to experience another side of the coin. I think maybe God was showing me that He had different plans for me, but that didn’t necessarily mean my plans were to be thrown out the door. What I’ve come to realize over the past month or so of this process is that in fact, the two areas mesh together quiet well. I also know that meshing those two together is something that I’m quiet good at doing (just saying). So, off to grad school it is for me.
What do I plan to do with my degree? I don’t know. I have some ideas of what I’d like to do. I actually don’t think it will be drastically different than what I’m doing now. I just think that I need to challenge myself and learn as much as I can. My emphasis will probably center around Juvenile Delinquency and prevention of crime, though I have many interest in the criminology field.
So for all of you folks scratching your heads and wondering what the heck I’m doing, that’s it. It doesn’t mean anything for me right now as far a where I live or what I do. I just need to expand my knowledge and see where the road leads me.
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