GPA

The past couple of days, GPA has been a big topic. I have a 2.82 GPA. I personally feel it is good, I can always do better and I am. It was lower than that, but I have been constantly bringing it up since I came to LSUS last spring. I am not the type to blame other people for my problems, I always take full responsibility and encourage others to do the same. But I think this case is special. I honestly blame ULM for my low GPA. Everybody else I talk to at LSUS has a higher GPA or close. I feel I should have just stayed at LSUS and I could have did way better. I am about to graduate in the spring, and some of the accounting firms that have been posting jobs/interns require a 3.0. Hopefully after some hard work, I can get that 3.0, but if I fall short, will the 2.9 be close enough? The reason I ask because some firms I have talked to before make it clear you have to have a 3.0. I would HATE to be turned away because of a couple of points. I know I will still get a job somewhere, but will I have to take that job because I did not have a 3.0?
I went to ULM for three years and their teaching style is way different. Of course it is different because no school is the same, but I thought the point was to help students learn and so forth. ULM always made things so much harder than they had to be. I was just average at ULM, hence the not so high GPA. I study the same and use the same techniques; I study in advance and all the other things you are suppose to do for classes. But at ULM that only earned me C's, at LSUS I make A's all the time! I do not feel that LSUS is easier than ULM, I feel they point out what is important, take their TIME to make sure you understand, and test you on that. When a school does those things, it makes it impossible almost to not graduate. ULM does not do any of that, they have a FEW good teachers but mostly not. I never understood why they made things harder than they should because they are not that prestigous; and I am not the only person that feels like that. If you were to talk to people there, they would say the same thing. All in all, I do not like ULM, ask me again in a year and I will tell you the same.

Fall

Hello everyone! Lately, I have found myself really longing for fall to come! A couple of weeks ago, the weather fooled me. It would get down low to like 60 degrees at night so I thought that the fall was coming early, but no. It is suppose to start doing that again next week after the rain this weekend. I hope it stays like that cause it will be October soon. I like the cold weather, but I can not stand to be cold! I guess I like the idea of wearing warm clothes and wrapping up in blankets. For the last couple of years, Louisiana has had a problem with getting cold when it is suppose to. Normally, it gets cold around the end of September and the beginning of October, but for the last couple of years it does not get cold really until the end of November. But anyway, I also am looking forward to the Fair to come in town. In my mind, I am too old to look forward to the rides and things. I basically just go for the food, walk around for a little while, and play a game or two. The food is like 90 percent why I go though! I love the Fair's candy apples, cinnamon rolls, and the chicken or shrimp on a stick. After the Fair is over, then I start to look to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Since I am older, holidays are just not that big to me anymore; but I still like the time with family, friends, food, and to get away from Shreveport. Last but certainly not least, when the fall is over, I will only have one more semester until I graduate! I have waited so long for this. I was suppose to graduate last year; but I decided to get a double major instead of getting a master's degree, so that pushed me back a year. I guess I just always had it in my head I would graduate in four years, get a good job, and just do my masters. At least when I graduate I will be completely done with school. After that I have to start studying for the CPA exam, but let's take one thing at a time! I am super excited about getting out into the work force, but also nervous, but more eager than nervous. I want to get started with my career so I can work my way up and just basically see what field of accounting I like most. Then I can focus on that and work my way up. But first, come on fall!