Working in the Right Direction

This past week was a tough one as it was the end of the semester. It was hard to get everything done that I needed to however it was a pretty good week. I was able to get all my papers in on time and even got a little ahead on a couple of other assignments. Now all that is left is to take the final in my Economic History of Greece and Rome. I don't have to take finals in other classes because my grades are high enough that I am not required to do so. I have an A in Greece and Rome but she requires that everyone take the final so I have to take that regardless.

On Tuesday I received an email from the LDS History Library offering an internship for this summer. Although I had to decline due to the research internship that I have already accepted, I was excited about the possibility of working with artifacts in the church history library. I explained to the director that I would not be able to participate in an internship until January and he thought that they could make that work. I would really like the opportunity to do this and I really believe that the Lord is letting us know that we are moving in the right direction by showing us that there are options out there.

I graduate in December and I am working now to get into grad school. I know that if we keep doing what the Lord wants us to do that we will end up where the He needs us. Let's hope that is somewhere really cool.

Pics From Spokane

I had a great time in Spokane a couple of weeks ago. I was able to present my senior thesis and it was really well received. What a great experience and I hope I get to do it again.

Hilarious

I don't really worry about my age however, I find this video hilarious.

We Don't Need No Stinkin Education

Things have taken on a mind of their own over the past couple of months. My educational goals have taken on new meaning and I have been lead in a direction that I didn't think of before.

Whats been happening:

• Tried to intern for a professor but was told that I should try the museum instead.
• Started at the museum reluctantly and found that I love it.
• A goal that came out of this was to start learning how to write grants.
• My advisor found out and made my project at the museum writing grants (I have written two already).
• Found that I have a knack for museum studies and my advisor as well as the director thinks I should pursue a career in public history.
• In order to do so I would need to drop the Education piece of my studies and just do History as my major.
• We fasted on a Sunday that we would be guide to what we needed to do (we received no answer).
• The next Sunday we made the decision to drop the Secondary Education and fasted about whether it was the right decision (not really an answer per se put we felt comforted).
• The following Friday I received an email asking me if I could be a research assistant.
• The professor said that I came highly qualified by two professors in the History Department.
• The job is a paid internship with an office where I would be researching with the possibility of being published (an answer to fasting because if we had decided to stay in education I wouldn't have been able to do it).
• This opportunity offers me the possibility of getting into a better graduate program and getting to be a research assistant.
• This Friday I will be presenting my paper at the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference for Phi Alpha Theta.

We feel that we have spiritual confirmation that we need to head in this direction and we are grateful for the opportunity that we have been given. In talking with my advisor it has come to my knowledge that there are multiple graduate programs that offer programs in history and public history combined so that I could teach at a university or be the director of a museum. There are other opportunities that are open to us by doing this as well and we are excited about the future.

A Couple of Things

I posted a couple of new papers on my other blog that may be of interest to some of you. One of them is a paper on Machiavelli's political concepts and how some work and some do not. The one right below that one is the paper that I am presenting on Friday at the Phi Alpha Theta Conference in Spokane. I am still working on where this paper is going for my thesis but I am excited about the opportunity to present my research thus far. Let me know what you think if you have a minute.

I found this video on Yahoo this morning and found it interesting. It is about the LGBT community at BYU and I was very impressed by the video. If you have the time watch it, I thought that it was done really well.