I have spent the last year and half of my life resisting the push and pull of this process of coming to UofM. For much of the time I was convinced that at the last minute an amazing opportunity would come up and I wouldn't have to spend the next 2 years of my life at graduate school. The opportunity never came, and not wanting to put my life on hold until this invisible opportunity came I walked through open doors to this magnetic place, Ann Arbor. I love it.
Despite the satisfaction I feel at being in this prestigious place I feel a dichotomy within myself. I am all at once peaceful and agitated. I have an incredible sense of well-being with the knowledge that I followed the road to this society that is set up for successes. I am in the unequivocal land of opportunity, but the struggle lies in what I am doing here. I often ask myself "what is my purpose?" "am I made for this work?" My chosen method area in social work is Social Policy. Now to many this may sound boring, but let me remind you it plays an important role in every aspect of our western society. Policies influence where we'll go to school, where we can build buildings, who gets food and how much they get, who gets new trash dumpsters and who has to wait till the next century comes around. More to come.
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