The Beginning of my PhD Program

During the past week, I finally moved into my new residence in Gainesville, FL and this past Thursday I finally checked into school for orientation.  I guess I’m kinda excited to start school since I’ve been out for a little over 1 year. My first course (a 2-3 weeks lab) begins on Tuesday and my core courses begin August 25.

Strawberry Letter (07/28)

Week of 07/28/2008

8/01Love or What? (No Audio)

Good morning everyone. I am a 23 year old single parent and graduate student. When my daughter’s father and I met we appearead to really be into eachother and eventually thought we were in love; it turned out we were just in lust. He was not really present during my pregnancy and was not present during my daughters birth and hardly ever seen her after she was born. He was quite disrespectful for some time and got someone else pregnant just before I gave birth. I never found out about this older woman (with several children of her own) until his mother decided to tell me about it three months after I had my daughter. The woman knew all about me and was very childish and disrespectful to me. My daughter’s father and I were not on speaking terms after I found out about the other woman and he was incarcerated shortly before my daughter’s first birthday. So much went on during the time leading up to this and I believe that I was so depressed that my Read more…