What I have learned the last few days

I want to thank all of you for the support and encouragement you have given me. The situation am going through with school has shown me that I don't give others a chance to be there for me, I am still stuck with a fear of rejection. I had to go to the school to pick up a copy of the Dean's letter answering my last appeal and I saw a classmate as I was walking through the hall...when he asked me how things were going I couldn't help but break down crying and telling him. Before I knew it I was sitting discussing the whole thing with him and another of our classmates. They were both really supportive and encouraging. It should not have shocked me but it did...I just don't expect people to be non-judgemental... Anyway I just want to say that I am really glad I have all of you and I am going to try and learn from this and give people a chance instead of jumping to conclusions about what they will think about me. As for the situation with school...I actually have one more chance to appeal due to a mistake the Dean made when he wrote his reply. The Dean's decision was supposed to be the final one but he accidentally put in his letter that I could appeal to the faculty...so they are sticking with that and letting me. So now I am working on that.

Awww Lisa I hope appealing to the faculty goes well for you. On the slim chance it doesn't don't give up your dreams you may have to set them aside for a short while and then pick em up again and move forward. If this is what you really want then I know in my heart you will succeed Hugs. Barb

I am so thrilled for you on so many levels. It's difficult for me to understand why things happen, but I am a person that believes in God and things are in an order in our lives for us to learn. Maybe you had to have your dream denied (temporarily) to make you fight for it harder than almost anything. But more than anything, it made you realize there are good people and friends who will stick with you during good and bad times. And still care... Now as for school...if you want to go back to that school, press on baby. But, do you really want to go back to a school where the Dean writes things incorrectly? I don't doubt it's a wonderful law school, but you'd think the people in administration and the professors teaching the law would be more careful in their wording. What if that had been a death penalty case and the word came 10 seconds after the person was executed? And wrongfully executed at that? hhmmmm But you go girl!

Best of luck Lisa. Hope it all works out for you hugs dale

Lisa, I am praying hard (or willing good karma) for you and that it turns out for you exactly like you would like it to turn out. As trite as it sounds, I think the universe provides all kinds of situations for us to learn lessons from. Life is not to allow us to create the best little existence we can make for ourselves, but to be the best humans we can be. "Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on a farm near Hodgeville, Kentucky, a state allowing slavery at the time. When he was only nine years old, his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died. A year later his father, Thomas Lincoln, remarried a woman named Sarah Bush, who had a tremendous influence on young Abraham Lincoln. In order to support his family, Abraham had to work at a neighboring farm so he didn't have the opportunity to go to school. The total amount of formal education he received totaled less than a year. Although his formal education ended very quickly, his self-education was just beginning. Lincoln was an avid reader and by studying grammar he acquired knowledge and discovered the rhymes of language. In speeches before the New Salem debating club, he honed his orator's voice. In law and in politics, he found the vehicles through which his passion could be engaged and in which his talent could emerge. He lost his first job as clerk in Denton Offutt's store, when Offutss's business enterprise collapsed. In 1833, Lincoln and Berry, a successor store, failed leaving the partners in debt. Lincoln spent the next seventeen years of his life paying off the money he borrowed from friends to start his business. In 1832, in his first campaign for the state legislature, he finished eight from thirteen candidates. In a campaign document he stated that if he were to lose, he 'was too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.' In 1835 Lincoln was engaged to be married, but his sweetheart died and his heart was broken. In 1836 he had a nervous breakdown and spent six months confined to his bed. The middle part of Abraham Lincoln's life was spent in Springfield. There he became a successful lawyer and made a brief foray into national politics. He still faced identity issues. He broke off his engagement to Mary Todd and, as a result experienced a profound depression. However a year later he reconnected with Mary and he went on to marry her in November of 1842. Lincoln and Mary had four children. In 1836, Lincoln won election to Congress. After his term ended, Lincoln spent the next five years focusing on his law practice. In 1854, he came back to the political arena and one of the first things he did was to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which threatened to extend slavery to other states. In 1855 Lincoln ran for the Senate but was defeated. The next year he ran for vice President and was also defeated. Lincoln's years of persistence and hard work, eventually paid off in 1860 when he was elected as the sixteenth President of the United States of America. However, failure characterised the first two years of Lincoln's Presidency. The radicals pushed him to declare emancipation a war aim while conservatives tried to pull him away from making it a 'a war about the Negro.' His party suffered losses in the mid-term elections. Gradually, Lincoln grew into the President who saved America. But even in the summer of 1864, influential members of his party asked him to resign as the nominee for the November election. In August 1864, he wrote a sealed memorandum to the cabinet stating that, in all likelihood he would be defeated. It wasn't until his re-election that the issue of his continuing leadership was firmly resolved.