"Receiving my acceptance letter from CSU was exciting and scary for me. For the last fourteen years I’ve been a social worker. I taught part-time as an adjunct instructor at the University of North Florida in the sociology program for the Child Welfare Certificate Program and I worked in the field. Teaching Social Work as a Profession every semester since 2000 gave me a joy and excitement that is hard to describe. Most times I walked out of the classroom energized, which was important because I spent many days working in an urban ghetto. Although I enjoyed my social work job, it was stressful, emotionally draining, and dangerous. The decision to leave that life and move cross-country was difficult in some aspects and easy in others. My biggest fear was being ten years removed from the role of student. Walking on campus the first day I thought, “All these students could be my children.” My anxiety quickly diminished as my professors graciously helped me transition to full-time student and classmates became friends." |