Summer session

I'm finally done but I don't feel the sense of relief that I should be feeling..I don't know why.

During the first week of summer session, I was waiting for the bus to go home at the MU when an older lady came to me and asked about the bus schedule. She needed to take the A line and didn't know where it was and at what time. She started talking to me about her life and asked about my major and what classes I'm taking. She told me she's from Sacramento and teaches Spanish 1 and 2 at Sacramento State or city college during the school year but during the summer, she stays at her brother's house in Davis and teaches classes at UC Davis through Sac state or city. She talked about how she was so close to getting her Ph.D. in Spanish but because of family problems (getting divorced) she had to quit when all she needed to do was her dissertation. Because of just having a Master's, she couldn't be a professor, what she really wants to be. I could tell how passionate she was about Spanish and Spanish Literature. She could also speaks Italian! She mentioned that she was not originally a Spanish major when she was doing her undergraduate studies. She came across it during her third year of college and decided to continue with it, ultimately ending up in grad school. Even though she's not a professor at a university, she loves teaching Spanish 1 and 2 because she feels like she can make a big difference in her students' lives. They either don't know any Spanish or know just a little bit and either way she can be their role model and hopes to get them to want to continue with Spanish. She tries to teach them more than just grammar and words.

I told her how I really want to go to medical school but my grades are not that great. She encouraged me a lot and said that I shouldn't give up and that I'll get in somewhere. I just have to stick with it and not let anyone divert me from my goal. I also told her about how I wanted to minor in Spanish and took almost all of the lower division classes ( just haven't taken Spanish 24). She said that I should continue with it since it's good to know Spanish and that I would really like the upper division classes.

Hmm I'm thinking about it. If I stay a 5th year, maybe I'll minor in Spanish =D We'll see though haha.

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