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The past two days have been really busy.  I’m tired, but I wanted to share a couple tidbits of good news.  First, I got this email today:

“I got your contact information from your article in the February 2010 NSTA ScienceScope.  I notice you are a former middle school science teacher working on your doctorate.  Western Illinois University is currently looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor in Science Education at the Elementary-Middle School level.  I am attaching our position announcement.  If you feel you meet the qualifications I would encourage you to apply for the position.”

Nice, right?  I’m not the perfect candidate for this position, nor does the timing line up (I won’t be finished with my degree yet), but there are two good things about this.  1) Faculty members read the teacher journal I like to write for and 2) one of them read it and thought it was good enough to look me up to send me this announcement.  Yay!

Also, I met with the professor I worked with on that article that got rejected.  We brainstormed what we could do and we think we’re going to get more feedback and rewrite, but she also asked if I wanted to help collect data (conduct interviews) from teachers in a local school district!  She has a contract to work on their technology plan and she wants to see what teachers need and want from technology.  This is a good opportunity to get some field experience and I’m pretty excited about it.  But, I’m also still really tired.  Night!

Today was sort of horrible.  I gave myself from 7-10am to work on this one class and it really took me from 9am-7pm (with a nap thrown in for good measure).  So, I only got half of my list done today and my butt hurts from sitting so much.

Onto other news, my article got rejected.  This is the one I worked on for two quarters with a professor.  Everyone said, oh, they’ll come back to you asking for edits.  But, no, it was just a flat out rejection.  I feel overwhelmed and a little bit worthless today.  Oh how the tides change.

Okay, so I can’t say it’s my first article ever published, but it is my first article as a graduate student!  Looks good, right?  I like to see my name on a glossy page.  Ah, soaking it in.

By Lauren Angelone!!

By the way this is from Science Scope, NSTA’s publication for middle childhood educators.