My first blog

My name isn't too important.  After all, its the journey you will read about that is the most interesting.
Out of our population, about 55% of people in my state will graduate high school, of that 50% will go to college.  Within the first year 35% of the people who made it to college will drop out.  Of those that graduate college 15% will start a Masters degree.  Only half will make it.  Then the crazies will start a PhD.  Only 50% will finish their doctorate.
I am one of those....I have a BA in Communication Studies (journalism) MS in Counseling and now am working on my PhD in Counseling.  I have beat several odds.  I just have to finish to be in only about 10% of the entire population.
It is not the classes that are hard.  I have maintained my 3.6 GPA, after all my chair is famous for saying "Bs make degrees" It is the dissertation.  I have started this process.  I am in my last class dissertation seminar.  I meet with my chair every two weeks.  She is having me write chapter 2 first.
I also have my written comps coming up Feb 25-27.  A whole weekend to write a perfect 6 pages answering 3 questions, from memorization, no notes, no research studies.
Then my oral comps will be in March.  I have to present a 20 minute presentation.  I can do that off the cuff, I'm a natural but there is something about having to pass that is well a little daunting.
I started this blog to vent and to organize my feelings.  Who knows I may make this a book.  But that would be way in the future.  After all, I have to write 115-150 pages which is a book.
Even if I am the only one who reads this I know that it is helping me.