Grad school in Tennessee is next stop for me

It has been over a month now since I found out about getting accepted into graduate school, so I think it is finally safe to talk – or write – about it.

I was kind of undecided on what I wanted to do after graduating Eastern Washington University this fall, but I thought I would go out on a limb and apply to my dream graduate school, the University of Tennessee, just to see if I could get in.

And when I say dream school, I really do mean it. I knew I have always wanted to attend the university ever since I first visited it during the summer of my sophomore year. In the end, it was the only sch...