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.