Study Saturday: Elaine the Educator’s College Guidelines

ConGRADulations, 🎓Class of 2015!!!🎉

Throwback: School Portraits of yours truly from Pre-K-12th Grade

My H.S. Grad: Abilene Cooper, Class of 1999

 

 For 🔔high schoolers, I’m imparting advice💭 that worked to my advantage when I prepared for college🏤 and throughout my career:

• College Applications📑
• College Internship💼
• College Bucket List📋

Additional Articles by Educator Elaine

For your health as a student:

• Healthy Lifestyle
• Stress Reduction
• Organized Desk

For studying and writing plus speaking :

• Note Mastery
• Writing Benefits
• *Speech Pros*

For learning:

• Intrapersonal Style
• Technology Enhancement

For student-athletes:

• Athlete Expectations

For exercise enthusiasts:

• Fitness Degree

For electives:

• Unique Courses

For graduate students and researchers:

• Ethnography Programs
• Dissertation Hypotheses
• Online References

Bachelor of Arts in Communication, McMurry University, 2003

I’ve been beyond blessed to have taught college students who were valedictorians (No. 1), salutatorians (No. 2) and top-ranked out of their class ~ two during this graduation season alone who are speaking🎤 at their commencement:

• Student Body President (female 💪🏽powerlifter) from last 🌞summer🌼
• Valedictorian (state 🏁championship🏆 🏈football🏉 player) from this past 🍀spring🌷

Master of Arts in Communication, Angelo State University, 2006

We present … The Graduates!!!👏🏽 {☝🏽️GOD-willing🙏🏽, I’ll walk👟 for my doctoral degree}

Study Saturday: Strong Work Ethic

Lately, I’ve been in conference calls with doctoral graduates for tips on getting on the grind and finishing our respective terminal degrees. Here are some of the paraphrased pieces of profound advice that they imparted to this candidate, yours truly, as I push through my dissertation:

Dr. Alex

• You’ll graduate in †GOD†‘s time.
• If †GOD† led you this far, He won’t leave you at this point.

Dr. Díaz*

• It takes ♥love♥ and commitment because it is a labor of ♥love♥.
• Treat your dissertation as your job by putting in your hours and ♥love♥ what you do.

*Also, my aforementioned colleague — with whom I used to teach in South Texas who always has been a brilliant mastermind and now has his book on the way (about the border, around the corner) — who is a fellow, active Catholic, who pointed out that we all have our †cross† to bear, established this group for St. Joseph the Worker …

… to whom he would pray everyday before writing his dissertation.

Dr. Toya

• Treat your dissertation as your final project: the last assignment that you need to graduate.

  

• Write an affirmation …

… and place it on your bathroom mirror…

… or refrigerator.

I also posted it on my desk!

I’m ♥lovin’♥ it!

Constant reminders may be just the key to my Ph.D. to become Dr. D (as I pop these choco Coffeebeats that may not be the best bet for my teeth)!

Beauty Tuesday: Tips from my Mom, the Birthday Girl

Happy Birthday, Nanay ☼

Today is my beautiful mom’s birthday, so this is a tribute to her.

Birthday Gift to NANAY: Rose Crucifix for LOLA ROSA from my friend EVIE‘s store, Lovely Gift

You know that saying, If you want to know what a girl will look like when she’s twice her age, look at her mother (or something to that effect)? Well, my mother still looks radiant to this very day, and she’s exactly twice my age, so I’d like to think that when I reach her age, I’ll also look and feel as gorgeous as she does. She is healthy and active, vibrant and enjoying life…

Here are the lessons that my Nanay/Mommy Aya has taught me that I take at face value:

• Eat breakfast everyday for energy
• Wear makeup to look presentable
• Always smile 🙂
• Don’t cry for any guy because no man is worth your tears
• Be brave

I admit that I haven’t always followed my mother’s advice, but as her mom, my maternal grandmother, Lola Rosing, told me:

Mothers know best.

And so far, they’ve always been right, even when I didn’t agree. Let’s love our mothers because they gave birth to us and guided us as we grew, and if they’re still around after we’re grown, they don’t stop… Because a mother’s job is never done.

Mahal Kita, Nanay ♥

† GOD Bless Good Moms