[nabs-l] Figuring Things Out

[Beth]

What you're feeling is absolutely normal.  Unlike you, however, I want
to be a choral director, but like you, I'm a bit confused about where
to teach, but I know what I want to teach.
Beth

On 11/1/08, Harry Hogue <harryhogue at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Let me apologize in advance for how long this turned out!  I thought as I
> wrote and so you're getting my stream of consciousness!  Thanks!
>
> I would like to hear from anyone, either on list or off of it, who has taken
> the GRE...preferably if your math skills aren't great.  I am looking around
> at some other graduate schools after deciding that linguistics may not be
> the best master's, based on a class that I'm taking this semester having to
> do with the historical development of English.  Most graduate schools either
> requrie the GRE or the MAT, with the majority prefering the GRE.  I truly do
> not believe that I have the skills to pass the GRE because of its math
> section--and although part of it may have to do with vision, a lot of it is
> just genetic--I simply am not good at math (neither is my brother who is
> fully sighted).  Thoughts, though, on succeeding with it, if I have to take
> it, are appreciated.
>
> I would also welcoem any strategies for finding schools that accept the
> MAT.  Oh and for a master's degree, I still want to be a college professor
> but am looking aroun at my options--I have actually thought about doing
> TEFL/TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) overseas...I'm
> really a bit intimidated.  I know what I want; I think I would really like
> the idea of teaching overseas for a year or two and being a professor (in
> whatever order those happen to arrive); I've even thought about going for a
> master's overseas--is that a crazy idea?
>
> I am at this point where I am very confused and don't feel like I have a
> whole lot of time.  I took a career assessment, and as I suspected, it said
> that my responses didn't show a clear pattern, meaning I have a lot of
> options and basically could do anything.
>
> So this post isn't really about the GRE, or graduate school, or teaching, or
> any of it.  I suppose it's more about me trying to make sense out of the
> confusion; I'm hoping for the things I want, wishing desperately for them to
> be possible, but still having the doubt that I could be comfortable going
> overseas and teaching (how could I, given that every time I move I have
> tention in my body from the cane)?  I say it is from the cane, because while
> walking down the hall, when no one else was around, I stopped using the cane
> and just held it vertical, and noticed that my tention immediately eased.  I
> was much more comfortable and I had no anxiety at all.  The constant noise
> of the cane on the concrete/tapping against doors/etc grates on me, and I am
> just now figuring this out.  Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> Thanks, if you've made it this far.  I didn't intend for this to turn into a
> book.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harry Hogue
>
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